Re: yes!

On a sunny day (Tue, 20 Aug 2024 09:25:27 -0700) it happened john larkin
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On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 17:13:39 +0100, Martin Brown
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On 20/08/2024 16:30, Phil Hobbs wrote:

Edward Rawde <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

"john larkin" <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in message

I preferred Popular Electronics myself.

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Just as elsewhere at the time you might only have had access to Rossiyskaya Elektronika.
The world was smaller then.

 
Back when I was 21 and trying to come up to speed in RF, I learned a lot
from RF Design and Wireless World.

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WW was good on content but circuit diagrams in it were somewhat badly
typeset at times - just enough to make it tricky to get working.
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Elektor was the other European mag back then and it is still going. They
had a summer special with loads of circuit ideas much like IU. Quirky
resistors as rectangular boxes was one of their trademarks.

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Do kids these days have similar guides to designing real electronics?
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When I interview an engineer, recent grad or not, I give them my
2-resistor voltage divider test. Most start mumbling and can't do it.
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Apart from 'Elektor', that was called 'Electuur' here in the Netherlands,
we had 'Radio ELectronica' that last one was my faforite,
Way before that we had 'Radio Blan':
 https://archive.org/details/radio-blan/Radio_Blan_01_juli_1960/
Used to read that and build those projects.. If I could get the parts...
Componets from 'Amroh'
 https://became.nl/amroh/Geschiedenis%20AMROH/historie1.htm
 their '402 coil' (medium wave coil) was seen in many projects.
  Amroh goes back to 1932...

As to 2 resistors that sounds bad...
I remember asking to draw a transistor relais driver to see if they forgot the flyback protection diode...