Great UK music magazine archive

[Rob Strand]

where the May 1968 issue of Radio-Electronics had an article on vibrating wire filters which included an oscillator.  It is interesting that the oscillator had no coupling capacitors and no inductors, just a vibrating wire as a frequency determining element.

Cool.    I was really puzzled when I read your post until I saw it had a magnet.   It's somewhat like a loudspeaker.

[MaxPower]

For EPE and Nuts & Volts: http://www.diagram.com.ua/english/library/#l5   They have other mags though some are in foreign languages.

EPE link:  http://www.diagram.com.ua/english/library/everyday-practical-electronics-magazine/

Its only 1998-2017 of EPE and 2004-2017 of Nuts & Volts.

When in time is the poly whats it series from?

[Mark Hammer]

Thanks for the links...sort of.  But all I seem to get is promises of archives and endless links to assorted foreign women bursting out of their clothing and download services, but no real content.  Is there something I'm supposed to keep my eye open for that ISN'T any of the above?

[MaxPower]

Try googling "diagram.com English" to get the page in English. Else, google "download everyday practical electronics". Should get you the link for  English page for epe.

That's how I found it originally.

[PRR]

> all I seem to get is promises of archives and endless links to assorted foreign women

The actual files *appear* to be hosted on DepositFiles.com, which is one of those mass file hosts which is monetized by "Gold membership" for faster downloads. (I don't see the women?)

They promised free download would be 28 minutes, and indeed it is throttled at 49KB/s and going ... real...... slow.

Ah-- I see the women. uBlock Origin ad-block does keep the women out. Turn it off and I see the usual boobies and "One Weird Trick!" crap.


Ah, I'm going to cancel the download. It comes as a ZIP file and while I have many of the Auto-Open routes disabled, I'm not sure enough of my defenses to risk it.

[Mark Hammer]

The dot-RU domain-name, coupled with the images, and pitch for download-for-fee, calmed my enthusiasm.  I can wait until it shows up somewhere less annoying.  Conceivably, someone will eventually scan and upload issues past Dec 1999 to the American Radio History site.

[MaxPower]

D'oh! It's been a while but I believe there was a captcha(?) you had to fill out. I downloaded the files using a computer at the public library and didn't have any issues. Maybe long-ass download times but I'm used to them.

I could always mail you the pdfs on a cd/dvd in exchange for that synth chip!

[Rob Strand]

Ah, I'm going to cancel the download. It comes as a ZIP file and while I have many of the Auto-Open routes disabled, I'm not sure enough of my defenses to risk it.

I haven't noticed any issue with that site but I have a lot of stuff turned off.

More the problem is when a whole new ad-page (or pages) is launched.
Occasionally you will find one has a pop-up asking for a password and it locks up the browser,
then you have to Alt+Ctl+Del then close the browser using task manager.   One version
is those was made to look like it came from Microsoft.

[PRR]

> the May 1968 issue of Radio-Electronics had an article on vibrating wire filters which included an oscillator.  It is interesting that the oscillator had no coupling capacitors and no inductors, just a vibrating wire as a frequency determining element.

In 1953:
https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Electronics/50s/Electronics-1953-09.pdf
56MB PDF file
Magazine page 164 (pg170 of PDF)
"BETWEEN 5 and 50 kc, the upper and lower limits for the application of tuning-forks and crystal resonators, respectively, there is a range for which no high-Q resonant elements are generally available. It is the purpose of this paper to describe an element that fills this need. This element is the electrically driven vibrating wire."