Editing Popular Electronics (section)

==Typical 1962 issue==
The July 1962 issue had 112 pages, the editor was Oliver P. Ferrell and the monthly circulation was 400,000. The magazine had a full page of electronics news that was called "POP'tronics News Scope." In January 2000 a successor magazine was renamed [[Poptronics]]. In the 1960s, [[Fawcett Publications]] had a competing magazine, ''[[Electronics Illustrated]]''.

The cover showed a 15-inch (38&nbsp;cm) black and white TV kit by Conar that cost $135. The feature construction story was a "Radiation Fallout Monitor" for "keeping track of the radiation level in your neighborhood." (The [[Cuban Missile Crisis]] happened that October.) Other construction projects included "The Fish Finder", an underwater temperature probe; the "Transistorized Tremolo" for an electric guitar; and a one tube [[Very high frequency|VHF]] receiver to listen to aircraft.

There were regular columns for [[Citizens band radio|Citizens Band]] (CB), [[amateur radio]] and [[shortwave listening]] (SWL). These would show a reader with his radio equipment each month. (Almost all of the readers were male.)<ref>{{cite journal | author = Art Salsberg |date=November 1982 | title = Editorial: Number One! | journal = Computers & Electronics | volume = 20 | issue = 11 | page =4 }}"A survey of subscribers conducted last year confirmed again that the great majority of our readers are male (97%)..."</ref> Lou Garner's Transistor Topics covers the new transistorized FM stereo receivers and several readers' circuits. John T. Frye's fictional characters, Carl and Jerry,<ref>{{cite web|last=Duntemann|first=Jeff|title=John T. Frye's "Carl and Jerry"|url=http://www.copperwood.com/carlandjerry.htm|publisher=www.copperwood.com|access-date=2013-02-13}}</ref> use a PH meter to locate the source of pollution in a river.