Re: yes!

On a sunny day (Tue, 20 Aug 2024 12:55:26 -0400) it happened "Edward Rawde"
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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.

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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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Yes I had to have WW every month too.
I think WW was a bit more globally distributed.
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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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That's one of the first things I learned from this
https://www.google.com/search?q=philips+guide+to+junior+electronics

I have build some of the Philips kits as a kid.
This was a good read back then in the fifties:
 https://frank.pocnet.net/other/sos/JongensRadio_Deel2_1950.pdf