"Radio & TV Course", Sprayberry Academy of Radio, 1946 Edition
Or, How To Learn to Repair Radios & TVs in only 1 Easy Lessons.
I don't find much history on the Sprayberry Academy of Radio, except that they were located at
111 N. Canal Street, Chicago 6, Illinois. At some point they were located in Pueblo, Colorado
(or, perhaps had an office there). Another ad from 1940 puts an office in 355-J Univserity Place, N.W.
Washington, D.C. Frank L. Sprayberry is listed as President (and presumably founder) Along about
1946, the school apparently began to emphasize Television repair.
This booklet was originally from George Burk, by way of Rich Post, KB8TAD (the later,
of Boatanchor Pix).
Although I only have the one booklet, I'll be on the lookout for more.
All documents open in a new window. Many thanks to ARF (AntiqueRadios.com Forum) for the genesis of the
idea to gather together these old 'home study' courses and put them online.
Colophon
This booklet arrived originally scanned at 300 dpi, and although it was scanned at grayscale, the images are superior. I don't know the original size of the booklets; for now I've resized them to about 6.6 inches tall by about 4.5 inches wide, screen resolution of 96 dpi.
Scanning and Preparation Tools are:
A PC running Ubuntu 11.10 on a dual-core, AMD-64 motherboard, using
Scan2PDF for document assembly into PDF.
GIMP Image Editor 2.6.11 was used for any touch-up or image scaling.