NEWS AND WEB CHANGES - 10/28/2007

This page is where we'll announce the most recent additions to our web site. If you've visited us before and want to know what's changed, take a look here first.

IN PROGRESS

We are currently reworking the entire website and adding some new functions and pages.  The salescart checkout section is completly new and hopefully will clear up a lot of confusion that happened occasionally with the old system! Sunday, October 22nd is the cut-over date to the new website material.  If  you have problems, please let us know with the "feedback" button at the top of every page

Hopefully by January, 2008, we will have our first SMS DVD ready for shipment.  The name of this DVD is "SMS FIRST 200".  Yes, there are 200 complete set folders on this DVD.  As you will probably know if you are familiar with Service Manual Series (SMS), it has the best service data available for all of the radios that was published at that time.  Generally speaking there are between 20-35 service manuals per SMS Set, so using the "35" figure there would be over 7,000 service manuals on this DVD.  Of course, this covers most Radios and TV's and Sound Equipment from 1946 to 1953 and these were prime years for lots of real neat equipment.

We have now added two database search engines to this web as well as a shopping cart system.  There are over 100,000 manuals (manuals, instruction books, owners and service manuals) available by clicking HERE FOR MANUALS and we have added a database search engine for the famous Riders Perpetual Troubleshooters Manuals and you can get to this search engine by clicking HERE FOR SCHEMATICS.

REA has an auction results page showing prices and condition for current to recent auctions.  REA gets hundreds of inquiries as to what radios are worth and perhaps some of this information will be helpful to those who only have the internet to find these things out. 

We have several new specialty CD-ROMs now available.  Check the CD publication section.  At recent count, we now have over 100,000 manuals listed on our site and over 1,000,000 schematic diagrams.  We are getting to the point where we think that "if we don't have it, it just doesn't exist" !  Of course, this will never be true, but the odds are good that we will have what you are needing in the form of service documentation.
New On-Line Flea Market
New Ham Radio Section & Museum

New Marine Radio Museum

Year 2008 Mission Statement - As Radio Era Archives (REA) is now in its 12th year of operation, we would like to thank every one our our customers for your support over the past 11 years.  It just seems like we started this project of digitizing old radio information only yesterday!  We now have produced over 100 CD-ROM's packed with information on a variety of subjects related to the age of radio.  We have also created our first DVD that holds the entire Riders Perpetual Troubleshooters Manuals on one disc!  REA now has several hundred thousand users of our CD-ROM titles worldwide.  Equipment manuals, technical books, training books, schematic diagrams, historical works, technical manuals and much more have been digitized for distribution and use via CD-ROM and now DVD.  All of this is the work output of a single dedicated person.  As dedicated as I am toward obtaining more information, it is getting harder to obtain.  Help us out! - if you have some manuals you are not using, contact us.  If you have books that you think are important to the radio art, let us know.  We very much appreciate your patronage and help in this impossible task.  We will always consider trades and swaps for old radio information that you don't need for perhaps something that you do need that we already have.  Let us hear from you . . . .

Authorized CD-ROM Publication Dealers

Antique Electronic Supply - Arizona - selected titles
Radio Daze - New York - selected titles

Now Shipping first 200 SERVICE MANUAL SERIES SETS.   SMS's are available in Vols 1-8 currently covering all sets from 1 through 200 in 8 CD-ROM's.  Want to beat the high cost of schematics and service info?  How about this deal . . . Volume 1 alone has 948 schematics starting in 1946 and Volume 2 has about the same.  Normal SMS schematics from RCA and others are $14 to $ 25 each depending on who provides them.  Based on this schematic count, this would equal 6.5 cents for each schematic!  What a bargain!  Now available - first 200 Sets.  Works with any personal computer running Windows 95 or later and uses an internet browser to run the CD-ROM.  

Soon to come is the first 200 SMS sets on DVD-ROM - keep tuned . . .

Only $ 79.00 each CD  (click here)

VRPS (Vintage Radio-Phonograph Society, Irving, Texas) Convention - one of the previous fall conventions.  A great time had by all for the 26th anniversary of VRPS.

Over 1000 lots auctioned off, through 2 main auctions and over $ 50,000 in antique radio equipment sold during the convention - an outstanding convention for antique radio buffs . . . see the intent look on these collectors in the "silent" auction below . . . .

Lots of fun had by all - can't hardly wait till next Fall for the next convention . . . .for those in the Texas area that are not familiar with VRPS, give us a ring and we will put you in touch for additional information. . . . .

UNIFORM ISBN CLASSIFICATION FOR OUR CD-ROM's