A warm welcome to readers of ELECTRONICS WORLD who are joining us this month. We
trust you will find much of interest in our pages and that you will like this
new combined publication.
In October 1954, the first issue of POPULAR ELECTRONICS was born out of the
pages of RADIO & TV NEWS-later to be called ELECTRONICS WORLD. It was felt that
there was a need for a publication that would speak simply to beginners in
electronics, new hobbyists, and novices. Projects were designed for those with a
minimum knowledge of electronics and for the beginning ham.
However, the field of electronics has not stood still in the last 17 years.
Along with its increased sophistication have come more knowledgeable hobbyists
and experimenters, many of whom are in electronics professionally. Hence, the
construction projects in PE have increased in complexity and in technical level.
ELECTRONICS WORLD has also moved along with the changing field as its various
name changes have indicated-all the way from its start as RADIO AMATEUR NEWS, to
RADIO NEWS, to RADIO & TV NEWS, and finally to ELECTRONICS WORLD in 1959. It
maintained its identity by catering more to the professional man in electronics,
than to the hobbyist and experimenter.
As time went on, however, it became more and more difficult to preserve the
separate identity of the two publications. Their technical levels got to be more
and more the same; and, in a number of cases, both were read by the same people.
It seems only natural then that we include in the pages of POPULAR ELECTRONICS
some of the same editorial coverage that was provided readers of ELECTRONICS
WORLD; and that is what the new combined publication will do. It will satisfy
those who are interested in building their own projects as well as those who
like more general, tutorial, state-of-the-art, and product-oriented stories, and
articles on new developments in electronics. At the same time we want to give
our readers more information on what is going on in the general areas of audio
and stereo equipment, communications, test equipment, and product testing and
evaluation. To do this, we are adding a number of new columns on these subjects
as well as incorporating some well-read columns from our sister publication. Of
course, we will need more pages for this added coverage and that's what you will
be getting.
We feel we are moving in the right direction instead of trying somewhat
arbitrarily to maintain an artificial difference that really does not exist. To
do the job we are using editors from both publications as you can see from our
masthead. We hope our efforts will please both our new and old readers and that
you will find the new POPULAR ELECTRONICS Including ELECTRONICS WORLD even more
to your liking than the old.
Page 16, January 1972 issue of POPULAR ELECTRONICS Including Electronics World