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- From: gkwan@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Greg Kwan)
- Subject: Re: Ranking the Electronic magazines.
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- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Organization: University of California, Irvine
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 06:35:07 GMT
- References: <sehari.724185381@class1.iastate.edu> <1992Dec15.000315.13857@ssc.com>
-
- In article <1992Dec15.000315.13857@ssc.com> markz@ssc.com (Mark Zenier) writes:
- >In article <sehari.724185381@class1.iastate.edu> you wrote:
- >: I have read many electronics magazines. I found each has some advantages
- >: and some short comings. Here I would like to post it here. I hope others
- >: also share their thoughts about their electronics magazines:
- >
- >: Radio-Electronics Some practical Few new ideas,
- >
- >And now renamed to Electronics Now.
-
- I still think it's just about the best hobbyist magazine around. I read
- it at the library.
-
- >Here are some more that I haven't seen mentioned yet.
- >
- >>Nuts and Volts
-
- Available free at some electronics stores. I used to make a point of
- picking it up every month... been kinda lazy lately.
-
- >Trade Press magazines.
-
- These are where you really learn stuff. (Well, these and data/
- application books.)
-
- >>Electronics Design
- >>EDN
-
- These and EE Times are, IMHO, essential. Add EDN's News and Careers
- magazine, too--good for job hunting. As an indicator of how controlled
- the subscriptions are, I blew off renewing Electronics Design for a
- couple of months. They really do terminate your subscription. Most
- others will eventually stop sending you the RENEW NOW! notices. Not
- them.
-
- [BTW, I subscribed when I was a design engineer. They are quite
- selective--read ``forget it if you're a student''. Most university
- libraries will have subscriptions, though.]
-
- >>Electronics Products
-
- If you're a subscriber, they'll mail you a four volume selection
- guide. Haven't used it much, but it looks somewhat useful--like
- IC Master.
-
- Possibly add ECN, although it covers similar territory.
-
- >>Personal Engineering and Instrumentation News.
-
- Yeah, I like this mag, too. Plus grad students qualify (I origi-
- nally subscribed as a design engineer but renewed as a graduate
- student, no prob.)
-
- I get a bunch more, but they're more specialized (e.g. Test and
- Measurement World--great for learning about neat new ``toys''
- you need to convince your boss you need and Embedded Systems
- Programming--for the ucontroller crowd).
-
- greg
-