Popular Electronics Magazine

[James_Bond_007]

Here are some scans of the Old Popular electronics magazine. looks complete from 1954 when they first started to 1982 when they changed their name.

thought some of the electronics guru's here might enjoy this.

Popular Electronics Magazine

 

[KC4RAF]

Man, what a link!

Thanks for posting this. I'm sure there's many here who appreciate your link to a good/great mag of yesteryear.

 

[retiredmich]

In 1954 I was just a puppy !! Brings back some memories,Thanks for sharing.

 

[_Wilson_]

Agreed thanks.

 

[w2xq]

Wow, what a find! Thanks for the link. The scans are excellent. Looking through a few issues, I found lots of people I knew. Brings back a lot of memories. Hank Bennett had my photo in his SW column in the late 1950s, but don't remember when just now. Looking at the Heathkit ads are a hoot. It was fun building more than a few of them. See the April 1975 issue for a now-badly-out-of-date BCB DXing article I wrote back when. [emoji2]

 

[KC4RAF]

Also on that site, are other mags

from that era that can be read with pdf. On the left side of the dates you'll see mags like Radio Electronics, Radio News, etc. What a site for old timers!

Edit: Interesting article on DXing the BCB Tom! Back then I was a DXer for stations after dark. Forgot how many stations I had logged, but it was fun doing it!

 

[K5MPH]

Thanks for the link a lot of good history....

 

[w2xq]

Rafdav, thanks. Looking back, I miss the silent periods and the late signons.

 

[AK9R]

Interesting look back. I opened up the issue from the year and month I was born and read the Carl & Jerry column as well as looked through the advertisements for companies that don't exist anymore. The world of electronics was a lot different 50-60 years ago.

John Frye W9EGV (Ether's Golden Voice) wrote the very popular Carl & Jerry column. He lived about 6 blocks down the street from us in Logansport, Indiana. Unfortunately, I wasn't interested in ham radio at the time and John was up in years as well as being confined to a wheel chair, so I never met the guy. My loss, I think.

Long-time computer author Jeff Dunteman (who I know from a previous career) has compiled many of the Carl & Jerry columns and re-published them in book form. John T. Frye's Carl and Jerry, from Popular Electronics

 

[rbm]

If you care to download and archive all of them, you can use the 'DownThemAll' addon for Firefox and with a few key strokes you'll have all of them downloading.

Rich

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