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(No story)December 1964: V21 #6. Six of the stories in 1955 were not given titles bythe author or the magazine, so the titles shown here are my fabrications,based on what the stories were about.Above is something I've wanted to post for a long time:A complete index of all known Carl & Jerry adventures by John T. Frye.There are 119 in all.
24 THE BOYS' FIRST BOOK OF RADIO AND ELECTRONICS. A single dry cell, when fresh and not supplying current, has an electrical pressure or voltage of 1.5 volts. When two dry cells are connected in series the voltage is combined and amounts to 3 volts. A 45 -volt B battery consists of 30 cells connected in series. 1954 Boy First Book Of Radio Electronics Morgan Pdf Printer. The boys' first book of radio and electronics illustrated by the author and walt reed charles. Morgan Crystal Radio. 7/27/2016 1 Comment This is one of those radios I wanted to build as a kid, but I never got around to it - till now! Diagram of the Morgan Crystal Radio. Finished Crystal Radio. Winding the main coil used in the crystal radio and the optional loading coil.
In the left half of the index are the title, issuedate, and volume number. In the right half are two-line capsule summariesof each episode, so that you can more easily spot your favorite episodes,which most people recall by 'what happened' rather than by titleor issue.The color coding is significant. As I explain below, I'min the process of republishing the full run of Carl and Jerry as fiveanthologies, and each anthology in the series is color-coded to the index.The cover of the first book is blue. The cover of the second book is mauve.The cover of the third book is yellow, and so on. The color of any givenstory's title in the index tells you which volume the story is in.I will be releasing a number of the stories as standalonePDF documents, which may be downloaded without charge and freely distributed.The title to these stories will be in bold, and the link to those storieswill be the issue date. If the issue date is underlined, that means there'sa downloadable PDF behind it. Keep in mind that these PDF files are typically2 MB in size, so plan your download time accordingly.
A new one will beposted every few weeks, as time allows, so do check back regularly!As well-known as he was among those who grew up reading his articles,little has ever been written about John T. Frye himself. Setting thisright has taken more time and more work than I had expected, and I wantto thank several people for digging around and locating what data thereis, especially Michael Holley and Bob Ballantine W8SU.US Census records tell us that John Frye was born in Poinsett County,Arkansas on March 14, 1910. He was the second son of Orton P. And Essie Frye. Hisolder brother Parker was born in 1905. Orton Frye was listed as ownerof a sawmill in 1910, and in 1920 owned a machine shop in West Prairie,Arkansas, with his son Parker working there with him.
The 1930 censusshows the Frye family as moved to Logansport, Indiana, and living at., the house where John lived, as best we know, for the restof his life. (The 1940 census records are still sealed, and will not bereleased until 2012.) Orton P. Frye is not shown in the Social SecurityDeath Index, and it may be that he died before the Social Security systemwas put in place in the late 1930s. Essie lived to be 91, and died in1974. Frye died in 1971 in Park Ridge, Illinois, where he hadlived for some time. No evidence has ever come to light indicating thatFrye married or had children.Quite a few Fryes lived in west-central Indiana, and some even in Logansport.This has caused some confusion: There was another John T. Frye livingin Camden, Indiana, from 1932-1976, and Camden is only fifteen miles fromLogansport.
This other John T. Frye married in 1955 and had two sons.Several people wrote to tell me that John Frye had a brother, Samuel BaileyFrye, in Logansport, as well as a sister Eunice. Bailey was a ham (WA9OWH)and died only recently (2008) at age 90.
However, Bailey's obituary does not mention John T. Frye, nor do the census recordsinclude Bailey in John Frye's family, so we can only assume he was unrelated,or perhaps a cousin. (Ditto Eunice.)Amazingly, he spent virtually all of his life in awheelchair due to a battle with polio when he was eighteen months old,and was never able to walk. The disease also affected his left hand,which he could use only imprecisely, and with difficulty. His father(who was a machinist) built a very maneauverable three-wheeled scooterout of a girl's tricycle, and John used that to get around his smalland presumably crowded house for many years—the photo below shows Johnin the scooter when he was 66.
He had several cars fitted out with handcontrols and did a great deal of traveling around the United States. Weknow that he had a 1963 Olds Dynamic 88; legend holds that he favoredBuicks, but we do not have confirming data at this time.(The photo is a screen capture of a microfiche scan of a1976 newspaper halftone, so alas, only so much can be done with it!)Frye was licensed as W9EGV in the 1920s, and graduated from LogansportHigh School in 1930. Most people have assumed that he attended PurdueUniversity because of Carl & Jerry's college career at fictional Parvoo,which shares details with Purdue in only the thinnest disguises (likethe Moss-Ade Stadium instead of Purdue's Ross-Ade Stadium) and sometimes,as with the Purdue/Parvoo radio station WCCR, no disguise at all.
Butas best we know, he never attended Purdue, and in fact did not study engineeringat all. He did attend Indiana University, Columbia, and the Universityof Chicago at one point or another, studying psychology, journalism, history,and English. We do not know whether or where he obtained a degree.Studying journalism and English clearly paid off. Frye was a veryprolific contributor to the electronics and amateur radio magazines, withsupposedly 600 short pieces to his credit.
The earliest published works I've seenin the literature are a series of short humorous items (titled 'Phone Band Funnies')in QST beginning August, 1947. However, he supposedly first appeared in Gernsback'sseminal Short Wave Craft (ancestor of )in the early 1930s. ( are classics.) He began writing a column called“Mac’s Service Shop” in Radio & Television News in April 1948,and it ran in one magazine or another (including Electronics World,another Ziff-Davis publication) for 28 years, until June, 1977. Thereare superficial resemblances between 'Mac's Service Shop' andCarl and Jerry: The column is nominally fiction, in which 'Mac,'the owner of a radio and TV service shop, talks about both the technicaland business aspects of the radio/TV service business to other people,often his sole and slightly clueless employee, Barney. However, thereis no 'adventure' and the action doesn't typically move beyondthe shop. For a sample of 'Mac's Service Shop' in its lateryears, you can see scans of the August 1975 column hosted.In addition to his short articles, John Frye wrote a couple of very popularbooks on radio and servicing:. Basic Radio Course (Gernsback Library #44) first publishedin 1951, revised in 1955 and 1962, and reprinted by Tab at least aslate as 1977.
Radio Receiver Servicing, 1960.Copies of these come up on Amazon and ABEBooks regularly, and if youcollect or restore old radios they are well worth having. They are notespecially rare, and I paid about $10 each for nice clean hardcovers.Basic Radio Course is a excellent overview of AM radio tech circa1950, well-written, and printed on a coated paper that has survived wellwithout yellowing or getting crumbly. The 1962 edition adds some limitedcoverage of solid state theory. Interestingly, my research has not showna copyright renewal for either Basic Radio Course or Radio ReceiverServicing, and so their copyrights have probably expired and bothhave now passed into the public domain.From his writing it's clear that Frye knew the radios and TVs of hisera inside and out, but I've been unable to determine where he learnedthe service trade, nor whether he worked in the service field. We haveno evidence that he owned his own service shop, but from his nearly thirtyyears of Mac's columns it sure sounds like he did!A good many of the details we know about Frye's life are summarized inin the Logansportnewspaper announcing the release of an updated edition of Basic RadioCourse. (The photo was actually taken in 1951, and appears in anothershort article announcing the release of the book's first edition in thatyear.) Many thanks to Lisa Enfinger for passing a scan of this along tome.
Doesn't Frye look a lot like a grown-up Jerry in the photo?Lisa also provided a clue as to why Frye patterned Parvoo Universityon Purdue: Her parents were very close friends of Frye's, and both studiedchemistry at Purdue in Frye's era. Frye maintained a lively correspondencewith both William and Margie McCaughey for many years, and probably visitedthem while they earned their degrees at Purdue in the late 1940s. Evenafter her parents moved to Tucson to teach at the University of Arizona,her mother (and Lisa too) would return to Logansport in the summers tovisit, and then spent a fair amount of time with John, who would takeyoung Lisa to the park on the Eel River in Logansport and buy her rideson their merry-go-round. Lisa's great-grandparents lived right acrossthe street from Frye, on Spear Street in Logansport. Her father, may have been the namesakeof the narrator of Mac's Service Shop. Lisa's mother's uncle, Eugene Buntain,was a classmate of Frye's at Logansport High School. The two discoveredelectronics and ham radio at the school and were close friends; Lisa wondersif Uncle Gene were the inspiration for Carl.Why did Frye stop writing 'Carl & Jerry'?
A couple of old-timershave hinted that he had had a falling-out with the editors at PopularElectronics toward the end of 1964. This is suggested by the factthat he began publishing a lot of articles in PE's main competitor, ElectronicsIllustrated, early in 1965. I do not have all issues of EI from thatera, but Frye appeared in the July 1964 issue with 'A Basic Coursein Vacuum Tubes.' From 1965 into late 1967 he was in most issuesof EI with a couple of multipart tutorials: 'The ABCs of Radio'beginning in September 1965, and 'The ABCs of Color TV' beginningin January 1967. The last issue I have in which Frye appears is September,1967—which is also when my subscription to EI expired.
I have a handfulof issues from 1968, and Frye does not appear in any of them, nor doeshe appear in any issues of Popular Electronics after that. 'Mac'sService Shop' ran until 1977, but Frye's other writing seems to haveceased ten years earlier.John T. Frye died in January, 1985, at his home in Logansport.As always, I'd love to hear from you if you have additional details aboutJohn T. Frye's life and work beyond what I've posted here.Back in 2006, I tried to locate a few of my favorite Carland Jerry adventures, and discovered that old back issues of PopularElectronics are not easy to come by, and not always cheap. Being atechnical book publisher in my day job, I had the notion that an anthologyof Carl and Jerry stories would be a good thing to put together, beforethe old magazines either crumbled to dust or ended up in landfills astheir owners passed on. After all, the first Carl and Jerry story—inthe very first issue of Popular Electronics—is now over halfa century old.
Time flies when you're down in the basement building things,sheesh.So I located the owner of the Carl and Jerry copyrights,and obtained permission to republish them in anthology form. As I corneredan ever-larger pile of the magazines on eBay, I realized that a singlebook would not do it. There are 119 stories in all, representing closeto 250,000 words and 300 illustrations.
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The five anthologies togetherwill include every Carl and Jerry story by John T. Frye, including allthe original illustrations. The stories will be published in chronologicalorder, by issue date. In general, there are two years' worth of storiesin each volume. The final volume contains a 'topic index' toall 119 stories, plus two brand new stories by long-time Carl and Jerryfans.All five books are now available, and may be ordered fromLulu.com. Click on the book volume links below to order.Availablenow:Availablenow:Availablenow:Availablenow:Availablenow:Note: The anthologies are printed and sold one at a timeby print-on-demand technology, and thus will not be available from bookstores.Alas, this means that you can't order them 'overnight' as theLulu system takes between 3 and 5 days to manufacture each book beforethe book is shipped.(Jeff Duntemann's blog).