Popular Communications, Monitoring Times, 73 Magazines Online

[prcguy]

I remember the good old days of writing for Monitoring Times. I was always late in getting my articles in on time due to my full time job and I usually spent more money on researching and building a project for an article than the magazine paid. I think you have to be retired or jobless to write full time for a magazine.

Up early with coffee and radios and a back issue of Monitoring Times. The good old days

 

[jjbond]

Great posts about past magazines. How about S9 magazine for CB'ers? Great memories, thanks for all the comments.

It's up there as well, some older ones... and you're welcome

S9 MAGAZINE: Citizens Band magazine

 

[jjbond]

I remember the good old days of writing for Monitoring Times. I was always late in getting my articles in on time due to my full time job and I usually spent more money on researching and building a project for an article than the magazine paid. I think you have to be retired or jobless to write full time for a magazine.

If I recall, the article I wrote in the early 80's got me $25.00 and a free 1 year subscription.

 

[prcguy]

I did an antenna column every other month and I think it paid about $160 an article. Or was it $106? I forget.

If I recall, the article I wrote in the early 80's got me $25.00 and a free 1 year subscription.

If I recall, the article I wrote in the early 80's got me $25.00 and a free 1 year subscription.

 

[TailGator911]

Great publications from a great era regarding a great hobby. Betcha I read 'em all

 

[N4ANJ]

Anyone who wants to read and "HOLD Monitoring Times in your hands" while you're reading, PM me. I have all the magazine format from Jan 1988-Dec 2013. Smoke and pet free. Cabinet stored.

 

[TailGator911]

Anyone who wants to read and "HOLD Monitoring Times in your hands" while you're reading, PM me. I have all the magazine format from Jan 1988-Dec 2013. Smoke and pet free. Cabinet stored.

That is absolutely awesome.

 

[brucebuck1010]

Whoo Hoo! Here is a blurb I wrote in Popular Communications back in Jan 1988 on the emergence of trunking! https://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Short-Wave/Archive-Popular-Communications-IDX/IDX/80s/Popular-Communications-1988-01-OCR-Page-0010.pdf#search="dayton trunking"

-Bruce

 

[oracavon]

www.scannerdigest.com/archives.html
http://www.nat-com.org/sample.pdf

While it's appreciated, I'm not sure we need to include magazines that people can see in any ad online and have to pay for. I don't want this thread to fill up with a bunch of links to current items requiring payment.

The point of my post was to bring back some memories for people and do it for free.... but thank you.

If you'll forgive a slight transgression, people might be interested in knowing that for the price of a single 1-year subscription to National Communcations (the nat-com.org site with the free sample noted by alphaacres), you can download all their previous issues going back to 1990 - lots of nostalgia there that I found enjoyable.

 

[empireco]

Great Post! I still read some of my old copies of Pop-Com now and then and some of the early 90's ones featured some letters/frequency lists of mine.

 

[Joe_Blough]

Read an article back from 1982 about a guy getting 6 months in jail for transmitting obscenities on a ham frequency and not having a license. Another about a Fox scanner with no keypad. It used cartridges programmed with frequencies by a computer at the store where you bought it. You could have one cartridge for police another for mobile phone, etc. I think the article said 100 frequencies per cartridge.

 

[Drake-r8]

Thanks so much much for this! I still have two drawers full of Monitoring Times from the mid '80's on. It's nice to have PDF's now for us retired boomers to reminisce over - great resource!

 

[iMONITOR]

Up early with coffee and radios and a back issue of Monitoring Times. The good old days

You know it!

 

[jjbond]

I'm glad I'm able to provide some great memories for everyone. It will help offset some of my b1tchiness on here when I deal with some of our more challenged members.

 

[N9JIG]

I wrote a couple feature articles for MT in the later days and IIRC they paid about $350 and sent 5 printed copies of the issue. A couple smaller articles netted $100.

 

[jjbond]

I wrote a couple feature articles for MT in the later days and IIRC they paid about $350 and sent 5 printed copies of the issue. A couple smaller articles netted $100.

wow, nice to see they improved... they paid me $25.00 for my article in 1984, that and a year free subsription. I think mine was two or three full pages.... people keep asking to see what I wrote, and I've not shared for fear of drama, but what the heII.... its' in the October 1984 edition and it's under a previous name (that will become obvious, my last name was Ferreira at the time.... let the curious questions begin...LOL) and the title is "Scanning the interstates"... While reading, remember, I was only 15 years old at the time..... it starts on page 4.

https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Monitoring-TImes/1980s/Monitoring-Times-1984-04.pdf

 

[jaspence]

I used to enjoy Popular Communications and S9 along with the other magazines. My biggest enjoyment each summer after I could drive was a trip to the Heathkit factory for the tour. On on occasion I had a black and white portable TV that would start rolling after it warmed up. I got to go back in the lab/workshop while they tried in vain to fix it. Still have two Heathkit CB radios, three ham HTs and an unopened Heathkit.

 

[jjbond]

I used to enjoy Popular Communications and S9 along with the other magazines. My biggest enjoyment each summer after I could drive was a trip to the Heathkit factory for the tour. On on occasion I had a black and white portable TV that would start rolling after it warmed up. I got to go back in the lab/workshop while they tried in vain to fix it. Still have two Heathkit CB radios, three ham HTs and an unopened Heathkit.

My first ham radio at the age of 15 was a Heathit HW-202 x'tal controllled two meter that I installed an aftermarket GLB-300 PLL synthesizer onto that mounted on top of it with dials, and coax went into one of the x'tal sockets from the synth.

 

[jaspence]

My first kit was a Knight Kit 3 transistor CB that I modified with a crystal socket on top to expand my coverage. My first Heathkit was a 23 channel mobile that had 46 crystals (2 leads each) that were soldiered to two rings on a rotary switch.

 

[Tech1]

My favorite will always be Popular Communications, I miss that magazine.