Radio Magazines online copies and resources

Hi all,

After happily reading through my box of Radcom magazines a friend recently gave me, I had a taste for more reading!

I came across this fantastic resource from some Australian Amateurs who had painstakingly scanned copies of 'Amateur' Radio' magazine from 1933 to 2013 and made them available online.
(They even helpfully provided a searchable index - fantastic work!)

I've enjoyed browsing through reading the history of our fellow Hams on the other side of the globe as well as enjoying the technical articles and home-brew projects. Especially the older home-brew articles with components you can see and handle, (flipping surface mount!), and don't require a plethora of PC hardware to program some microprocessor or other!



Anyway, may provide some interest to a few of you.

Link as follows :-

https://armag.vk6uu.id.au/index.html


All the best,
Victor

Any interest in freeradio? if so take a look at.

https://archive.org/details/Radio-Magazines/Airsounds_1981_Issue_3_July_by_Stuart_Hardy

There are dozens of free radio magazines there, including the excellent Anoraks UK.

Nice find that Victor.

Nice one Nick, I'd forgotten about the 'Internet Archive' project.

It may be worth my while making a posting to encapsulate these sort of links for people to add to and grow a wealth of information linking. Leave it with me

Cheers Alan.

It wasn't a resource I'd come across before hence why posting it up. Just as well I haven't got a printer, there's hundreds of articles for things I'd like to build on there! (Would cost a fortune in paper and ink! )

Glad you found it useful mate

Anoraks UK, including some of their audio adverts. 

http://www.dxarchive.com/press_anoraks_uk_index.html

Victor wrote:

Hi all,

After happily reading through my box of Radcom magazines a friend recently gave me, I had a taste for more reading!

I came across this fantastic resource from some Australian Amateurs who had painstakingly scanned copies of 'Amateur' Radio' magazine from 1933 to 2013 and made them available online.
(They even helpfully provided a searchable index - fantastic work!)

I've enjoyed browsing through reading the history of our fellow Hams on the other side of the globe as well as enjoying the technical articles and home-brew projects. Especially the older home-brew articles with components you can see and handle, (flipping surface mount!), and don't require a plethora of PC hardware to program some microprocessor or other!



Anyway, may provide some interest to a few of you.

Link as follows :-

https://armag.vk6uu.id.au/index.html


All the best,
Victor

The mag is still going strong...free to WIA members, or purchasable from newsagents for non-members.

There's also a downloadable PDF version for members.

Here's a Canadian one to keep you busy too:  https://ve7sar.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-march-april-2021-communicator.html

Nice one Jeff

I've really enjoyed reading through the Australian Amateur Radio magazines back catalog and pleased that such a great publication is still running strong. It's definitely given me a whole list of projects to get on with, a great learning experience and overall interesting read. (Was especially interested in how you guys got on with the EMC regs quite some time back now!)

Thanks for another great resource with the link you provided there, I'm sure the Canadian magazine will be another wonderful wealth of knowledge too.

Well, if anything, it saves me the indignant look from my wife of trying to cram another box full of dusty mags into my radio room!


Thanks again guys for the great links, I hope many others find this all as useful as I have and if anyone else knows of such a resource then please post it on up.

All the best,
Victor

I've changed the posting title to more accurately describe the expansion of links and titles provided.


If you have a link to similar resources then please feel free to add to this posting. I'm sure we'd all very much appreciate it.

Don't forget, even if it costs you, there's a wealth of back issues going way on back from QST magazine. If you're more into nuts and bolts classic stuff than manufacturer designs or stuff built around pre-made modular parts - SPRAT, a QRP mini publication was a cheap and useful item of interest as was Bygone Radio for those into very classic radios and stories from way on back when radio batteries could kill you or give you a seriously reality check.

If there are any free archives of those, the source is probably not common knowledge.

All mentions of good magazines there Christopher but unfortunately no legally free online versions.

Practical Wireless - July 2021 PDF download free (magazinelib.com)

Search around this site for more radio mags Practcal Wireless, Radio User etc.

Paul.

That looks interesting Paul, but I have to ask - is that a legal site?

Nice find, Victor. I missed that, first time around.

Some great resources here Victor and all the link providers, thank you all.

Hi Victor. Not exactly sure but most mags are in there for download.

Back copies of Radio User and PW available as well.

Paul.