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On a sunny day (Tue, 20 Aug 2024 09:25:27 -0700) it happened john larkin
<jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in <3kg9cj1fp2jifl9vre6ad7tkd0cj4fp1ac@4ax.com>:

>On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 17:13:39 +0100, Martin Brown
><'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>On 20/08/2024 16:30, Phil Hobbs wrote:
>>> Edward Rawde <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>> "john larkin" <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in message
>>>>> I preferred Popular Electronics myself.
>>>>
>>>> Just as elsewhere at the time you might only have had access to Rossiyskaya Elektronika.
>>>> The world was smaller then.
>>> 
>>> Back when I was 21 and trying to come up to speed in RF, I learned a lot
>>> from RF Design and Wireless World.
>>
>>WW was good on content but circuit diagrams in it were somewhat badly 
>>typeset at times - just enough to make it tricky to get working.
>>
>>Elektor was the other European mag back then and it is still going. They 
>>had a summer special with loads of circuit ideas much like IU. Quirky 
>>resistors as rectangular boxes was one of their trademarks.
>
>Do kids these days have similar guides to designing real electronics?
>
>When I interview an engineer, recent grad or not, I give them my
>2-resistor voltage divider test. Most start mumbling and can't do it.
>

Apart from 'Elektor', that was called 'Electuur' here in the Netherlands,
we had 'Radio ELectronica' that last one was my faforite,
Way before that we had 'Radio Blan':
 https://archive.org/details/radio-blan/Radio_Blan_01_juli_1960/
Used to read that and build those projects.. If I could get the parts...
Componets from 'Amroh'
 https://became.nl/amroh/Geschiedenis%20AMROH/historie1.htm
 their '402 coil' (medium wave coil) was seen in many projects.
  Amroh goes back to 1932...

As to 2 resistors that sounds bad...
I remember asking to draw a transistor relais driver to see if they forgot the flyback protection diode...