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August 1967 Popular Electronics
 Table of Contents
Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles
from
Popular Electronics,
published October 1954 - April 1985. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.
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 Good luck trying to find a good ham radio related
comic in any magazine today. I am convinced that publisher boards either discourage
or outright prohibit comics these day for fear of hurting some overly sensitive
person's feelings and inviting lawsuits, or worse yet social media flaming frenzies.
Fortunately, I am not afraid and am glad to make these vintage comics available (see
huge list below). You and I, being reasonable people, cannot possibly find anything
insulting or denigrating in any of these five comics, but somebody could. BTW,
for the non-ham, a "pink ticket" from the FCC is a notice of violation, which could
be anything from neglecting to announce your call sign every ten minutes to having a
faulty transmitter that is spewing noise outside your band.
Ham Radio Ain't What It Used to Be ... As Seen by Walt Miller
"Oh that's nothing, just my first QSL."
"Hey Bud, better ask your wife if she wants Green stamps."
"$659.00 worth of equipment and I can't get a signal past the city
limits."
"Built it myself - just the basic tools; pliers, money, soldering
iron, money, screwdriver, money..."
"Congratulations! You've made the down payment - now that wasn't so
difficult, was it?"
These Technically-Themed Comics Appeared in Vintage Electronics Magazines. I
personally scanned and posted every one from copies I own (and even colorized some).
247 pages as of 12/3/2024
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