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=                       Electronics Australia                        =
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                             Introduction                             
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'Electronics Australia' or 'EA' was Australia's longest-running
general electronics magazine. It was based in Chippendale, New South
Wales.


                         Publication history                          
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It can claim to trace its history to 1922 when the 'Wireless Weekly'
magazine was formed.  Its content was a mix of general and technical
articles on the new topic of radio.

In April 1939 the magazine became monthly and was renamed 'Radio and
Hobbies'.  As its name suggests, it was a more technical publication
for hobbyists, but it also featured articles on television, optics,
music and aviation.  Nonetheless its base was radio, and it contained
many how-to-build projects.  The first editor was John Moyle, from
1947 to 1960.

With the advent of television, television was added to its title in
February 1955, 'Radio Television &amp; Hobbies', or RTV&amp;H.  During
these years numerous how-to-build articles on high fidelity audio,
amateur radio and even electronic organs and television sets were
published. The growing fields of scientific, medical, computing and
other applications of electronics necessitated a name change to
'Electronics Australia' in April 1965 (being Volume 27, Number 1).

'Electronics Australia' published a number of innovative computer
construction projects, including the Educ-8 in 1974, the Mini Scamp,
the Dream 6800 and the Super-80 - a joint venture with Dick Smith
Electronics.

Although many competitors came and went during the 1970s and 1980s,
such as 'Electronics Today International', 'Australian Electronics
Monthly', and 'Talking Electronics', 'Electronics Australia' survived
into the 2000s.

For a couple of years, more consumer electronics items were
introduced, and continued to occupy more of the magazine, while the
magazine's technical material occupied the rear pages.  Possibly due
to this reduction in importance of technical slant, several of the
magazine's staff (including the Editor, Leo Simpson) left to start the
magazine that would become its main rival, 'Silicon Chip', in 1987.

Under recently installed editor Graham Cattley, a change of name to
'Electronics Australia Today' in April 2001 spelt the death knell.
Most technical content was removed and 'EAT' changed focus to become a
fully consumer-oriented publication, although this consumer change was
noticeable since April 2000, when the name was changed from
'Electronics Australia' to simply 'EA', with the 'Electronics
Australia' name remaining a subtitle for several issues before it was
dropped entirely. This was a new fresher consumer look, with square
glued binding instead of the traditional stapled binding.
Many long-time readers considered the name change from 'Electronics
Australia' to 'EA' to be the end of the traditional 'Electronics
Australia' look and brand.
Original readers and advertisers finally deserted in droves when the
name was changed to 'EAT' and the magazine failed to pick up new
readers (there were already many established magazines covering
consumer electronics). 'EAT' lasted only six issues before it folded.

The last issue with 'Electronics Australia' as the main title was
published March 2000. There were 432 issues in all up until December
2000.

The rights to 'Electronics Australia' are now owned by 'Silicon Chip'.
'Silicon Chip' have not released back issues on CD as they have done
with 'Wireless Weekly' and 'Radio TV&amp;Hobbies' due to not having
contracts with most of the freelance article contributors over the
years, who technically still own copyright on their respective
articles and construction projects.


                           List of editors                            
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Name !! Date
Florence McKenzie 	 1922
John Moyle 	 1947 - 1960
Neville Williams 	 - 1965
Jamieson Rowe 	 1965-1979
Leo Simpson 	 1986-1987
Greg Swain
Jamieson Rowe 	 - August 2000
Graham Cattley	 September 2000 - April 2001 (when it became EAT)
('incomplete')


                            External links                            
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*
[https://web.archive.org/web/20010408235943/http://www.electronicsaustralia.com.au/history.htm
History of 'Electronics Australia'] (archived by Web Archive)
* [http://www.siliconchip.com.au 'Silicon Chip']
* [https://archive.org/details/EA1977 'Electronics Australia Magazine
1977 - download as PDF']
* [https://archive.org/details/EA1978 'Electronics Australia Magazine
1978 - download as PDF']
* [https://archive.org/details/EA1979 'Electronics Australia Magazine
1979 - download as PDF']
* [https://archive.org/details/EA1980 'Electronics Australia Magazine
1980 - download as PDF']
* [https://archive.org/details/EA1981 'Electronics Australia Magazine
1981 - download as PDF']
* [https://archive.org/details/EA1982 'Electronics Australia Magazine
1982 - download as PDF']
* [https://archive.org/details/EA1983 'Electronics Australia Magazine
1983 - download as PDF']
* [https://archive.org/details/EA1984 'Electronics Australia Magazine
1984 - download as PDF']
* [https://archive.org/details/EA1985 'Electronics Australia Magazine
1985 - download as PDF']
* [https://archive.org/details/EA1986 'Electronics Australia Magazine
1986 - download as PDF']


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