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This DVD contains a reference library of guides, manuals, and courses on working on vintage radios.  A total of 363 publications are included. While other collections only offer you one of the following course subjects, we offer them all on this DVD:

National Radio Institute - 1948 - How To Make Money Fixing Radios
National Radio Institute - 1949 - Radio Serviceman's Repair Course
RCA Radio Course - 1930
RCA Radio Course - 1958
Sprayberry Academy of Radio
Basic Electricity and Radio Reference Books
Cyclopedia of Applied Electricity
NEETS, Electricity and Electronics 24 Volume Series

The National Radio Institute was a private post-secondary correspondence school based in Washington, D.C. NRI was founded by James E. Smith, a high school teacher, in 1914. In the 1940's it was considered the best school in its field and it issued a 90 volume course teaching radio repair and service.  The course material was broken into 2 parts, encompassing over 2500 pages.  The first 35 manuals cover How to Make Money Fixing Radios, will the remaining 55 manuals issued the following year cover technical course material.  We have included the full collection.

National Radio Institute - 1948 - How To Make Money Fixing Radios:
No. 1 - How Radio Receivers Are Serviced
No. 2 - How To Use Radio Tools
No. 3 - Equipment Used by Servicemen
No. 4 - How To Remove and Overhaul the Chassis
No. 5 - How To Restring Dial Cords and Set Push Buttons
No. 6 - How To Test and Replace Resistors and Volume Controls
No. 7 - How To Test and Replace Condensers
No. 8 - How To Test Tubes
No. 9 - How To Test and Replace Coils, Chokes, and Transformers
No. 10 - How To Test and Repair Loudspeakers
No. 11 - How To Inspect a Chassis for Surface Defects
No. 12 - How To Put Up Antennas
No. 13 - How To Repair Marred Radio Cabinets
No. 14 - How To Start a Spare-Time Service Business
No. 15 - How Much To Charge for Your Work
No. 16 - How To Plan a Professional Workshop
No. 17 - How Professional Servicemen Repair Receivers
No. 18 - How Circuit Diagrams Are Used in Servicing
No. 19 - How To Find the Defective Part with an Ohmmeter
No. 20 - How To Find the Defective Part with a Voltmeter
No. 21 - How To Fix a Dead Receiver
No. 22 - How To Fix a Receiver That Hums
No. 23 - How To Fix a Receiver That Squeals and Motorboats
No. 24 - How To Fix a Noisy Receiver
No. 25 - How To Fix a Receiver That Distorts
No. 26 - How To Align Simple One-Band Receivers
No. 27 - How To Align All-Wave Superheterodynes
No. 28 - How To Fix a Weak Receiver
No. 29 - How To Fix an Intermittent Receiver
No. 30 - How To Service A.C.-D.C. Receivers
No. 31 - How To Service Three-Way Portable and Battery Receivers
No. 32 - How To Service Auto Receivers
No. 33 - Recognizing Complaints Not Caused by Receiver Defects
No. 34 - How To Service F.M. Receivers
No. 35 - How To Go into Full-Time Servicing

National Radio Institute - 1949 - Radio Serviceman's Repair Course
Vol 1- Introduction to Radio
Vol 2 - How Radio Programs Are Sent From The Studio To Your Home
Vol 3 - Simple Radio Circuits And Meters
Vol 4 - Getting Acquainted With Receiver Servicing
Vol 5 - Radio Resistors And How They Are Used
Vol 6 - Radio Coils And How They Work
Vol 7 - Radio Condensers And How They Work
Vol 8 - How Radio And Electronic Tubes Work
Vol 9 - How Tuned Circuits Function - Coupling Radio Circuits
Vol 10 - How Tubes Work In Typical Radio Stages
Vol 11 - How Iron-Core Coils And Transformers Operate In Radio Circuits
Vol 12 - How Operating  Voltages Are Obtained From An A.C. Power Line
Vol 13 - Special Power Supplies For Radio Equipment
Vol 14 - How Sounds And Scenes Are Converted Into And Reproduced From Electrical Signals
Vol 15 - Low-Frequency Amplifiers For Sound And Television Receivers
Vol 16 - Radio Frequency Amplifiers For Sound And Television Communication
Vol 17 - How Detectors Work In Radio And Television Receivers
Vol 18 - How Practical Requirements Changed Receiver Circuits
Vol 19 - Manual And Automatic Volume Controls
Vol 20 - How Signal Currents Are Kept In Correct Paths
Vol 21 - The Vacuum Tube As An A.C. Generator In Radio-Television Circuits
Vol 22 - Peak And Band-Pass R.F. Tuning Circuits
Vol 23 - How Broadcast, All-Wave, And Television Superheterodyne Receivers Work
Vol 24 - Tone Control, Volume Expansion And Noise Limiting Circuits
Vol 25 - Light-Sensitive Cells For Control Circuits
Vol 26 - How Sound Reproducers Operate
Vol 27 - How Cone-Type Loudspeakers Work
Vol 28 - Current, Voltage And Resistance Measurements
Vol 29 - Vacuum Tube Voltmeters - Cathode Ray Oscilloscopes
Vol 30 - Measurements At Audio And Radio Frequencies
Vol 31 - Tuning Indicators And Automatic Frequency Controls For Radio Receivers
Vol 32 - How To Use Circuit Diagrams And Locate Chassis Parts
Vol 33 - Behavior Of Radio Waves And Receiving Antennas
Vol 34 - Frequency-Modulated Signals - The F.M. Receiver
Vol 35 - Automatic Tuning Control Systems
Vol 36 - Professional Radio Servicing Techniques
Vol 37 - How To Isolate The Defective Section And Stage
Vol 38 - How To Isolate The Defective Circuit And Part
Vol 39 - Tuning Circuit Troubles - Alignment
Vol 40 - Using The Cathode Ray Oscilloscope In Radio Servicing
Vol 41 - How To Eliminate Hum, Squeals And Motorboating
Vol 42 - How To Eliminate Distortion - Servicing Loudspeakers
Vol 43 - Servicing Noisy And Intermittent Receivers
Vol 44 - Installation And Service Of Auto Radios And Farm Receivers
Vol 45 - Receiver Revitalization - Tube Testers
Vol 46 - How To Eliminate Man-Made Interference
Vol 47 - How To Choose And Install Replacement Parts
Vol 48 - Servicing Record Changers
Vol 49 - Introduction To Public Address
Vol 50 - Acoustics In Public Address Work
Vol 51 - P.A. Transmission Systems
Vol 52 - Commercial P.A. Systems
Vol 53 - Special P.A. Systems
Vol 54 - Maintenance Of P.A. Systems
Vol 55 - Requirements Of A Television System

Included are also 2 separate courses issued by RCA, in 1930, and then again in 1958, teaching the fundamental basics of radio repair, as well as the theory and science behind it.

1930 - RCA Radio Course
Forward - Introduction to Radio
Index - RCA Radio Course
Instructions - Definitions - Schematics
Lesson 1 - Mathematics
Lesson 2 - Units Of Electrical Measurements And Symbols
Lesson 3 - The Electron Theory - Substance And Matter - Static Electriciy
Lesson 4 - Magnetism
Lesson 5 - Electromagnetism - Electromagnetic Induction
Lesson 6 - Primary Cells
Lesson 7 - Resistance And Conduction
Lesson 8 - Electrical Circuits
Lesson 9 - D.C. Motors
Lesson 10 - D.C. Generators
Lesson 11 - A.C. Current
Lesson 12 - The Motor-Generator
Lesson 13 - Power Transformers
Lesson 14 - Inductance
Lesson 15 - Capacity
Lesson 16 - The Storage Or Secondary Battery
Lesson 17 - The Use Of Storage Batteries On Shipboard
Lesson 18 - Meters
Lesson 19 - Graphs
Lesson 20 - Sound
Lesson 21 - Electromagnetic Waves
Lesson 22 - Fundamentals Of Radio Reception
Lesson 23 - Vacuum Tubes
Lesson 24 - Characteristic Curves
Lesson 25 - The Oscillatory Circuit
Lesson 26 - Mid-Term Examination
Lesson 27 - Practical Radio Construction
Lesson 28 - Practical Radio Construction
Lesson 29 - Audio Amplifier Circuits
Lesson 30 - Practical Radio Construction
Lesson 31 - Regenerative Detector With Capacitive Control Of Feed-Back
Lesson 32 - Practical Considerations For The Design Of Screen-Grid Receivers
Lesson 33 - Construction Details Of The RCA Institutes AC Screen-Grid Receiver
Lesson 33A - Building The Battery-Operated Screen-Grid Receiver
Lesson 34 - Practical Radio Construction
Lesson 35 - Common Faults And Troubles
Lesson 36 - Practical Radio Construction
Lesson 37 - The Development Of The Super-Heterodyne
Lesson 38 - Principles And Use Of Test Equipment For Servicing Radio Receivers
Lesson 39 - Instruments Used In Servicing Radio Receivers
Lesson 40 - Instruments Used In Radio Servicing And Principles Of Set Testing
Lesson 41 - Balanced Armatur Loud Speakers
Lesson 42 - The Electro-Dynamic Speaker
Lesson 43 - Radiola 28, AC Operated
Lesson 44 - Victor Micro-Synchronous Radio
Lesson 45 - GE H-31 - Westinghouse WR-5 - Radiola 80 - Graybar 700
Lesson 46 - GE H-51, H-71 - Westinghouse WR-6, WR-7 - Radiola 82, 86 - Graybar Models 770, 900
Lesson 47 - Crosley R.F.L. 90 - Zenith 17
Lesson 48 - Practical Radio Construction
Lesson 49 - Radio Retailing - Salesmanship.pdf
Lesson 50 - Grebe - Battery and AC Receivers
Lesson 51 - Battery Eliminators
Lesson 52 - Practical Radio Circuits - Part I
Lesson 53 - Tuned R-F Circuits
Lesson 54 - Tuned R-F And Super-Heterodyne Receivers
Lesson 55 - Interference Elimination
Lesson 56 - Commercial Long And Short Wave Receivers
Lesson 57 - Spark Transmission
Lesson 58 - Arc Transmitters
Lesson 59 - Radio Aviation Equipment
Lesson 59A - Aviation Equipment For Two-Way Communication
Lesson 60 - Vacuum Tubes Used In Transmitting
Lesson 61 - Commercial Tube Transmitters.pdf
Lesson 62 - Vacuum Tube Transmitters
Lesson 63 - Short Wave Transmitters
Lesson 64 - Short Wave (High Frequency) Receivers
Lesson 65 - Television - Part I
Lesson 66 - Television - Part II
Lesson 67 - Photoradiograms - Beam Transmission (missing pages)
Lesson 68 - Broadcast Transmitters
Lesson 69 - Radio Direction Finder or Radio Compass
Lesson 70 - Sound Motion Pictures
Lesson 71 - Sound Motion Pictures and Sound Reproducing Equipment
Supplementary Instruction
 

1958 - RCA Radio Course
Index to Electronic Fundamentals

Study Group 1, Electronic Fundamentals
How To Study - Effectively
Service Practices 1: How To Identify Receiver Parts
Service Practices 2: How To Use Tools
Theory Lesson 1: Wave Motion and Communication
Experiment Lesson 1: How To Solder
Theory Lesson 2: Schematic Symbols and How to Use Them
Experiment Lesson 2: How to Do Advanced Soldering

Study Group 2, Electronic Fundamentals
Service Practices 3: How to Identify Radio and TV Hardware
Service Practices 4: How to Install a Radio Receiver
Theory Lesson 3: How to Use Color Codes
Experiment Lesson 3: Starting the Multimeter Assembly
Theory Lesson 4: Electron Theory and Current
Experiment Lesson 4: Electrostatic Experiments

Study Group 3, Electronic Fundamentals
Service Practices 5, How to Erect Antennas
Service Practices 6, How to Repair and Polish Cabinets
Theory Lesson 5, Ohm's Law and Primary Cells
Experiment Lesson 5, Continuing the Multimeter Assembly
Theory Lesson 6, Secondary Cells
Experiment Lesson 6, Experiments with Cells

Study Group 4, Electronic Fundamentals
Service Practices 7, How to Read Meters
Service Practices 8, How to Understand Meter Readings
Theory Lesson 7, Resistance
Experiment Lesson 7, Meter Assembly and Measurement of DC
Theory Lesson 8, DC Circuits
Experiment Lesson 8, Resistance Measurements

Study Group 5, Electronic Fundamentals
Service Practices 9, How to Remove Chassis and Locate Simple Defects
Service Practices 10, How to Test Tubes
Theory Lesson 9, Power and Voltage Division
Experiment Lesson 9, Power Measurement
Theory Lesson 10, Magnetism and Electromagnetism
Experiment Lesson 10, Magnetic Experiments

Study Group 6, Electronic Fundamentals
Service Practices 11, Dial Cords and Tuning Systems
Service Practices 12, Battery and Three-Way Portable Receivers
Theory Lession 11, D-C Meter Theory
Experiment Lesson 11, Calculation of Meter Multipliers and Shunts
Theory Lesson 12, D-C and A-C Generators
Experiment Lesson 12, Meter Assembly and A-C Measurements

Study Group 7, Electronic Fundamentals
Service Practices 13, How To Test Resistors
Service Practices 14, How To Test Inductors
Theory Lesson 13, Alternating Current
Experiment Lesson 13, Generator and Transformer Experiments
Theory Lesson 14, Inductance
Experiment Lesson 14, Inductance Experiments

Study Group 8, Electronic Fundamentals
Service Practices 15, How To Test Capacitors New!
Service Practices 16, How To Use Catalogs and Service Data New!
Theory Lesson 15, Capacitance New!
Experiment Lesson 15, Capacitance Experiments New!
Theory Lesson 16, AC Circuits New!
Experiment Lesson 16, Resonance Experiments New!

Study Group 9, Electronic Fundamentals
Service Practices 17, Servicing When Receiver Is Not At Fault New!
Service Practices 18, Circuit Tracing New!
Theory Lesson 17, Rectification
Experiment Lesson 17, Rectification Experiments
Theory Lesson 18, Basic Filters and Time Constants
Experiment Lesson 18, Filter Experiments

Study Group 10, Electronic Fundamentals

Service Practices 19, How To Troubleshoot A Radio Receiver
Service Practices 20, Special Tools
Theory Lesson 19, Triodes, Multigrids, and Multipurpose Tubes
Experiment Lesson 19, Triode Experiments
Theory Lesson 20, Power Supplies I
Experiment Lesson 20, Signal Generator Assembly I

Study Group 11, Electronic Fundamentals
Service Practices 21, Checking And Servicing Switches
Service Practices 22, Phono And Recorder Motors
Theory Lesson 21, Power Supplies II
Experiment Lesson 21, Signal Generator Assembly II
Theory Lesson 22, Electron Tube Constants
Experiment Lesson 22, Electron Tube Experiments

Study Group 12, Electronic Fundamentals
Service Practices 23, Tape Recorders
Service Practices 24, Phono Players And Pickups
Theory Lesson 23, Voltage Amplifiers
Experiment Lesson 23, Voltage-Amplifier Experiments
Theory Lesson 24, Audio-Power Amplification
Experiment Lesson 24, Power-Amplifier Experiments

Study Group 13, Electronic Fundamentals

Service Practices 25, Vacuum-Tube Voltmeter
Service Practices 26, Microphones And Loudspeakers
Theory Lesson 25, Bias Methods and Basic Audio-Amplifier Design
Experiment Lesson 25, Bias Experiments
Theory Lesson 26, Decibels, Microphones, and Loudspeakers
Experiment Lesson 26, Impedance-Matching Experiments

Study Group 14, Electronic Fundamentals
Service Practices 27, Public Address Systems I
Service Practices 28, Public Address Systems II
Theory Lesson 27, Detector Circuits
Experiment Lesson 27, Detector Experiments
Theory Lesson 28, TRF Receivers
Experiment Lesson 28, Radio-Frequency Experiments

Study Group 15, Electronic Fundamentals
Service Practices 29, Transistor Fundamentals
Service Practices 30, Transistor Applications
Theory Lesson 29, Principles of Superheterodyne Receivers
Experiment Lesson 29, I-F Amplifier Experiments
Theory Lesson 30, Oscillators
Experiment Lesson 30, Oscillator Experiments

Study Group 16, Electronic Fundamentals
Service Practices 31, AM And FM Signal Generators
Service Practices 32, Cathode Ray Oscilloscope I
Theory Lesson 31, Frequency Conversion
Experiment Lesson 31, Frequency-Conversion Experiments
Theory Lesson 32, Wave Propagation and Antennas
Experiment Lesson 32, R-F Stage, Antenna and Shielding Experiments

Study Group 17, Electronic Fundamentals
Service Practices 33, Cathode Ray Oscilloscope II
Service Practices 34, High-Fidelity
Theory Lesson 33, Multiband and Commercial Receivers
Experiment Lesson 33, Alignment of Superheterodyne Receivers
Theory Lesson 34, Volume and Tone Control Circuits
Experiment Lesson 34, Decibel Measurement Experiments

Study Group 18, Electronic Fundamentals
Service Practices 35, How to Check for Hum New!
Service Practices 36, Using The Signal Generator and Signal Tracer To Troubleshoot New!
Theory Lesson 35, Special Circuits
Experiment Lesson 35, Volume and Tone Control Experiments
Theory Lesson 36, Principles of Frequency Modulation
Experiment Lesson 36, Bandwidth Experiments

Study Group 19, Electronic Fundamentals
Service Practices 37, Installing And Servicing Auto Radios
Service Practices 38, FM Receivers
Theory Lesson 37, FM Detectors
Experiment Lesson 37, Troubleshooting Experiments I
Theory Lesson 38, Introduction to Television
Experiment Lesson 38, Troubleshooting Experiments II

Study Group 20, Electronic Fundamentals
Service Practices 39, Printed Circuits
Service Practices 40, Practical Television Antennas and Transmission Lines
Theory Lesson 39, Principles of Television Receivers
Experiment Lesson 39, Troubleshooting Experiments III
Theory Lesson 40, Principles of Color Television
Experiment Lesson 40, Troubleshooting Experiments IV

Sprayberry Academy was a Radio School in the 1930's and 40's in Chicago.  In 1945, they published their own radio course.  Some Lessons (7, 8, 9, 10, 14, and 33) are missing from this set.

1945 - Sprayberry Academy of Radio
Lesson ND-1, Introduction To Radio's First Principles
Lesson ND-2, The Two Basic Forms Of Electricity
Lesson ND-3, How Lines Of Force Are Applied In Radio And Television
Lesson ND-4, The Elements Of Radio Transmission And Reception *
Lesson ND-5, How To Read Radio Diagrams And Symbols
Lesson ND-6, Resistance As A Property Of All Electrical Circuits
Lesson ND-11, Fundamentals Of Radio Tubes - Rectifier Circuits *
Lesson ND-12, Rectifier Tubes - Tube Standards And Ratings
Lesson ND-13, How A Radio Tube Makes A Weak Signal Stronger
Lesson ND-15, Amplification At Low Frequencies
Lesson ND-16, Types Of A.F. Amplifiers, Amplifier Classes
Lesson ND-17, How An R.F. Signal Is Demodulated, Detected, Rectified, Etc.
Lesson ND-18, Speakers For Radio
Lesson ND-19, Power Transformers For Radio
Lesson ND-20, Choke Coils - Filter Systems and Voltage Dividers
Lesson ND-21, A Six Color Story of the Tuned Radio Frequency Receiver *
Lesson ND-22, The Superheterodyne Receiver
Lesson ND-23, Superheterodyne Oscillator Tracking and Super Control Tubes
Lesson ND-24, How Superheterodyne Circuits Are Made To Reject Unwanted Signals
Lesson ND-25, Automatic Volume or Sensitivity Controls
Lesson ND-26, Six Color Story of the Superheterodyne with AVC
Lesson ND-27, Improvements Which Simplify Receiver Operation and Decibels
Lesson ND-28, Multiple Band Receivers
Lesson ND-29, Microphones and Phonograph Pick-Up Units
Lesson ND-30, Transmission Lines, Pads and Attenuators
Lesson ND-31, Public Address or AF Sound Systems
Lesson ND-32, How Sound Is Employed In the Movies
Lesson 7X1, Radio Construction and Repair Work
Lesson 7X2, Radio Construction and Repair Work
Lesson 7X3, Radio Construction and Repair Work

Other Electrical and Radio Textbooks and Reference Material Included:
Advanced Antenna Theory, by Sergei Schelkunoff, 1952, 216 pages
Basic Electricity, US Dept of the Navy, 1977, 503 pages
Basic Theory and Application of Electron Tubes, Dept of the Army, 1952, 229 pages
Communications Jamming Handbook, Army Field Manual, 77 pages
Electronic Warfare and Radar Systems Handbook, Navy Field Manual, 299 pages
Elements of Electricity, A Practical Discussion, by Robert Millikan, 1917, 262 pages
Introduction to Radio Direction Finding, by The US Army Intelligence Center, 53 pages
Practical Radio Communication, by Arther Nilson, 1943, 973 pages
Principles of Automotive Electricity, by the Army Correspondence Course Program, 1991, 112 pages
Principles of Radio Wave Propagation, by J.A. Fleming, 1906, 711 pages
Radio Electronics, A Textbook by Samual Seely, 1956, 493 pages
Radio Operator Handbook, Department of the Navy, 1999, 148 pages
Cyclopedia of Applied Electricity, A General Reference Manual Series on all things Electrical, 7 Volumes, (1916), 3,500 Total Combined Pages

Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series, 24 Volumes:
Module 1, Introduction to Matter, Energy, and Direct Current, Batteries, and Electricity
Module 2, Introduction to Alternating Current and Transformers
Module 3, Introduction to Circuit Protection, Control, and Measurement
Module 4, Introduction to Electrical Conductors, Wiring Techniques, and Schematic Reading
Module 5, Introduction to Generators and Motors
Module 6, Introduction to Electronic Emission, Tubes, and Power Supplies
Module 7, Introduction to Solid-State Devices and Power Supplies
Module 8, Introduction to Amplifiers.
Module 9, Introduction to Wave-Generation and Wave-Shaping Circuits.
Module 10, Introduction to Wave Propagation, Transmission Lines, and Antennas
Module 11, Microwave Principles
Module 12, Modulation Principles
Module 13, Introduction to Number Systems and Logic Circuits
Module 14, Introduction to Microelectronics
Module 15, Principles of Synchros, Servos, and Gyros
Module 16, Introduction to Test Equipment
Module 17, Radio-Frequency Communications Principles
Module 18, Radar Principles, covers the fundamentals of a radar system.
Module 19, The Technician's Handbook.
Module 20, Master Glossary
Module 21, Test Methods and Practices
Module 23, Magnetic Recording
Module 24, Introduction to Fiber Optics