Radio Electronics Magazine?

[Myron Samila]

Hi all,

Does Radio Electronics Magazine still get published? I remember seeing them years ago,
but can't find anything like it here in Toronto (went to all the electronics shops, book
stores (Chapters, Indigo etc...) Can't seem to find it.

Any other magazines that are published in North America that have interesting projects?

--
Myron Samila
Toronto, ON Canada
Samila Racing
http://204.101.251.229/myronx19

 

[Bob Stephens]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 10:27:47 -0500, Myron Samila wrote:

Hi all,

Does Radio Electronics Magazine still get published? I remember seeing them years ago,
but can't find anything like it here in Toronto (went to all the electronics shops, book
stores (Chapters, Indigo etc...) Can't seem to find it.

Any other magazines that are published in North America that have interesting projects?

I think Circuit Cellar is still being published for one.

Bob

 

[Michael Black]

"Myron Samila" (myronx19@no.spam.sympatico.ca) writes:

Hi all,

Does Radio Electronics Magazine still get published? I remember seeing them years ago,
but can't find anything like it here in Toronto (went to all the electronics shops, book
stores (Chapters, Indigo etc...) Can't seem to find it.

Any other magazines that are published in North America that have interesting projects?

Radio Electronics "died" about ten years ago. Actually, they renamed

it to "Electronics Now" at that time, but it was pretty much the same
magazine.

But then a few years back, I think the start of 2000, it was merged
with Gernsback's other publication, "Popular Electronics" (not to
be confused with the "Popular Electronics" that had morphed to "Computers
and Electronics" and died in 1984), becoming "Poptronics". But that
time, it mainly becamse "Popular Electronics" rather than "Electronics
Now". Don Lancaster's long running column was dropped. It aimed
at the same market as "Popular Electronics" which I'm not sure I
cna describe but which was definitely different from "Electronics Now".

But then at the end of 2002, Gernsback announced that it was going out
of business, and obviously "Poptronics" would no longer be published.

So no, "Radio Electronics" is no longer around, under that name or
as a descendant.

"Nuts & Volts" magazine http://www.nutsvolts.com is the only hobby
electronic magazine being published in the US now that I can think of.
It started out, I gather, pretty much as an advertising forum, but
has increasingly become about content. Certainly once Poptronics
was out of the way, they changed their size to the usual magazine
size, and is full of articles. I've found it at Chapters here
in Montreal, though not recently at Indigo.

"Circuit Cellar" might be a contender, but it is mostly computer
oriented articles, with the exception being backround material related
to the core material. It's from Steve Ciarcia, who had a long running
hardware column in Byte. But I'd label it as less of a hobby magazine
than Electronics Now, with the intent being elsewhere (though maybe
that's just the computer bias). This shows up at Chapters and Indigo.

There's a magazine from the UK that shows up in Chapters. I can never
remember the exact name, something like "Practical Electronics" (I
can't remember because it's a long time magazine, that merged with
something else and changed the name accordingly.) It suddenly reappeared
after Poptronics died, so I suspect they made an effort to get better
distribution.

There's also "Electronic World" from the UK, the descendant of the old
"Wireless World". It's market seems a bit higher than hobbyist, with
most of the articles on advanced topics and few construction articles.
It too is available at Chapters and Indigo.

The only ham magazine being distributed at newsstands nowadays is
CQ Magazine. Not really much in construction articles and even then
they'd be radio related. "73" died back in the fall, and "QST" decided
to do away with newsstand distrubition a while back.

Michael

 

[Mike Deblis]

"Michael Black" <et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message
news:c12nkv$nlg$1@freenet9.carleton.ca...
....various mags...

Don;t forget Elektor, published in several languages, and IMHO, far more
interesting that Everyday Practical Electronics (EPE). Far higher level than
Nuts & Volts & EPE - more like Circuit Cellar, but heavily focussed on
contruction - lots of novel design ideas and they have professional labs
that check all designs & do the PCBs...

http://www.elektor-electronics.co.uk/

Mike

 

[Michael Black]

"Mike Deblis" (mdeblis@hotmail.com) writes:

"Michael Black" <et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message
news:c12nkv$nlg$1@freenet9.carleton.ca...
...various mags...

Don;t forget Elektor, published in several languages, and IMHO, far more
interesting that Everyday Practical Electronics (EPE). Far higher level than
Nuts & Volts & EPE - more like Circuit Cellar, but heavily focussed on
contruction - lots of novel design ideas and they have professional labs
that check all designs & do the PCBs...

http://www.elektor-electronics.co.uk/

Mike


I did forget when I posted, but a reason for forgetting is that I haven't

seen an English language copy here in Montreal (and I assume the rest of
Canada) in years. Though, I have seen the edition from France locally,
but it seems sporadic.

When we were seeing Elektor imported from England twenty years or so
ago, I did buy it regularly, and you're description fit even back then.

Michael

 

[Mantric]

"Mike Deblis" <mdeblis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c12q99$1djgrv$1@ID-219286.news.uni-berlin.de...

"Michael Black" <et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message
news:c12nkv$nlg$1@freenet9.carleton.ca...
...various mags...

Don;t forget Elektor, published in several languages, and IMHO, far more
interesting that Everyday Practical Electronics (EPE). Far higher level than

EPE has a sister mag at:
www.radiobygones.co.uk/

Nuts & Volts & EPE - more like Circuit Cellar, but heavily focussed on
contruction - lots of novel design ideas and they have professional labs
that check all designs & do the PCBs...

http://www.elektor-electronics.co.uk/

Mike