[ARC5] Radio Electronics Magazine

[Bruce Long]

>From looking at other magazines of the same sort all the way up to the 60's when I was a boy I believe there was a lot more interest in and DIY activity.  I suspect because people did not have as much money then and the range of consumer products  was much less then today.
For example the Pop Mech issue on my desk has a one page article about connecting a line cord onto a small 115vac lamp and placing the lamp in a metal tub thereby creating a small spot light for looking into the dark corners of radio chassis during repair.
Today most people would buy a small mag light or desk light and be don with it.


      From: Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>
 To: Bruce Long <coolbrucelong at yahoo.com> 
Cc: J Mcvey via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>; Robert Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net>
 Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 5:50 PM
 Subject: Re: [ARC5] Radio Electronics Magazine
   
My father subscribed to Popular Mechanics all during the WW-II years,
and I enjoyed later looking at all the radio articles - usually about
building something out of parts you could salvage from junked old
radios.  And later on, probably about 1948, we built a one-tube radio
from plans in PM.  I remember having to get an Allied catalog first
so we could order some of the parts.  But soon after that the radio
section went downhill, so far as projects to build went.

I didn't see any of the magazines from back in the 1930s, must have
been interesting.  Back then there were Popular Mechanics, Popular
Science, Modern Mechanix, and probably some others I'm not aware of.

Jim W6JVE



   
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