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[rca2000]

OH MY GOD !!!

THANK YOU for posting that site--I NEVER knew there was one wiht R_E and EW available to read on-line !! I LOVE Radio electronics--it was--and is--my all-time favorite electronics magazine !!

[Findm-Keepm]

Originally Posted by rca2000

I LOVE Radio electronics--it was--and is--my all-time favorite electronics magazine !!

Same here - I've spent weeks on that website reliving my youth. My dad had a subscription from the 60's to the mid 70's, then my brother had a subscription, and then I had a subscription until it merged with Poptronix/Hands On Electronics. Electronics Illustrated, Elementary Electronics and Popular Electronics were newsstand buys for my dad - the Navy Exchange had them for a quarter back then.

Radio Electronics had the sexist tag line "For men with ideas in Electronics"
Popular Electronics had a female sailor (WAVE) on it's cover.
Electronics Illustrated had a bikini clad girl (ala Laugh-In) on it's cover in the late 60's.
Elementary Electronics had an article "the birds and bees of connectors" - all about male and female connector types.
Popular Electronics could be counted on for their April Fools column. (contrapolar energy - plug in the soldering iron and it freezes over....)

Ah, my youth....

Cheers,

[earlyfilm]

Originally Posted by Findm-Keepm

Same here - I've spent weeks on that website reliving my youth. . . . . . .

Popular Electronics could be counted on for their April Fools column. (contrapolar energy - plug in the soldering iron and it freezes over....)

Hee hee! The best impossible Pop Tronics April Fool's project was the one that we see very often today!

The solar powered nightlight!

Back then, economical rechargeable dry batteries and LED Lights had not been invented.

I had earlier done a solar cell project and remember looking at the schematic for about two seconds and thought "No way is that little solar cell going to provide enough amperage for that light bulb --." Then it dawned on me if there was enough light for the solar cell, one would not need the night light.

James

[rca2000]

Originally Posted by earlyfilm

Hee hee! The best impossible Pop Tronics April Fool's project was the one that we see very often today!

The solar powered nightlight!

Back then, economical rechargeable dry batteries and LED Lights had not been invented.

I had earlier done a solar cell project and remember looking at the schematic for about two seconds and thought "No way is that little solar cell going to provide enough amperage for that light bulb --." Then it dawned on me if there was enough light for the solar cell, one would not need the night light.

James

I have now downloaded a WHOLE lot of RE , EW and a few other magazines from the site. I DO wish the years were complete--but some are not. But still--this way--it will be VERY easy to "take them along" with me--on a flash drive and have hundreds of issues to look through !!

[kx250rider]

I will go with the correspondence school theory. And on the 6GF7 filament issue, I would check for a miswire before anything else. Great find, as I'm sure most of those sets were junked after completing the class (or giving up )

Charles