[Fists] Magazine

[Dan Romanchik]

I'm sorry to see Poptronics bite the dust. Several years ago, Poptronics was
created out of the merger for Popular Electronics and Radio-Electronics, so
that means that two long-time electronics hobbyist magazines are now
completely out of business. Here's the message you get when you try to call
up the Poptronics website:

POPTRONICS.COM

WE ARE REMODELING. PLEASE BE
PATIENT WITH US. CHECK BACK IN
A COUPLE OF DAYS. ALL FUNCTIONALITY
WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON.

Back in the 60s, my father got into hi-fi equipment, building some Heathkits
and he even built his own speakers. He subscribed to both Popular
Electronics and Electronics Illustrated for many years. I would, of course,
read them religiously.

Before I got my ham license in 1971, I did a lot of shortwave listening, and
did have one of those WPE certificates. I bet I even still have it somewhere
in my "files."

73!

Dan KB6NU

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> I saw an article that the mag Poptronics was now defunct. It used to
> published under the name Popular Electronics. I that rag from the 60's. I
was
> always looking at magazines of that sort at the drug store, and wondering
if
> I would EVER have some of the equipment shown in mags like that. Any one
> remember some others that were around. Of course the usual ham rags. There
> was also a  Popular Radio I "think". Popular electronics (pretty sure) was
> the one that gave out a spiffy certificate to short wave listeners, and
gave
> them a "call". They were  WPE something. i.e. WPE8FAX. This was during my
pre
> ham days, so it would have been some where around 1960??? Any others????
> Al/W8FAX
>
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