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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