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Practical Electronics | August | 2024
Volume 53. No. 8
August 2024
ISSN 2632 573X
Editorial
Exciting News!
Change is in the air. Practical Electronics is the world’s longestrunning hobby electronics magazine. Our first issue came out in
November 1964 when commercial transistors had been available
for less than a decade and ICs were only just beginning to appear
– at eye-watering prices that only NASA could afford. Many fine
magazines have appeared (and sadly disappeared) in the last 60
years, but PE has endured and thrived. I’m sure that one of the
main reasons PE has survived is the quality of its content – thanks
to the very hard work of all who write and work for the magazine.
But there is another reason – we’ve never been afraid to change,
and now it’s time for a new chapter in PE’s long-running story. We
are joining the Silicon Chip publishing stable.
What does this mean for Practical Electronics?
Silicon Chip is an Australian magazine with which we have
shared content since the beginning of 2008. They have provided
sophisticated projects of the highest quality and it’s been a
very successful relationship. So successful in fact, that when
I mentioned to its editor/publisher Nicholas Vinen that I was
thinking of retiring we decided to work out a way to ensure PE
wouldn’t retire with me.
So, the big question is where does PE go from here? The short
answer is most things will stay exactly as they are. All of PE’s
authors will continue to contribute exactly as they do now. Nicholas
is absolutely clear that PE must not become a ‘Silicon Chip light’,
that would be pointless. If anything, the magazine will get better –
Nicholas intends to up the pagination which means more pages and
more content, all of which will benefit you the reader.
Thank you
I first started working on PE nearly 30 years ago with a small job
producing its circuit diagrams. In 2008 Mike Kenward, the editor/
publisher asked me if I’d consider becoming PE’s editor. I jumped
at the opportunity, and it’s been an exciting and rewarding role.
Then, at the start of 2019 I became publisher, just in time to catch
the full brunt of the pandemic, but we survived!
Throughout my time with PE I have had fantastic support from
our many talented contributors – PE is nothing without its creative
scribes – thank you one and all; in no particular order: Alan
Winstanley, Jake Rothman, Ian Bell, Clive ‘Max’ Maxfield, Mike
Tooley, Julian Edgar, Mike Hibbett, Phil Boyce, Mark Nelson,
Barry Fox, Stewart Kearn, Kris Thain, the late John Becker, Mike
Kenward… and to anyone I’ve left off this list, apologies! Last, but
by no means least, thank you to all our many loyal readers and
subscribers. You’ve kept us going and I’m sure your continued
support will enable Nicholas to carry on bringing you the very best
in electronics publishing over the coming years.
Matt Pulzer
Publisher
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