[ARC5] Radio Electronics Magazine

[Richard Knoppow]

    Memories: when I was a kid I got Popular Mechanics, Science and 
Mechanics, Popular Science I think there some others. Had articles on 
how to build furniture, boats, model airplanes, real airplanes, amazing 
stuff. The advertisements are worth the price of admission.

On 8/24/2016 2:50 PM, Jim Haynes wrote:
> 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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Richard Knoppow
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WB6KBL