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1-04-2006 | The subject of this month’s instalment, a PrüfRex car & motorcycle electrics test box, is from a time when car owners were in total control...

1-03-2006 | This story starts in May 1988 with the publication of an article with the delightfully simple and technically correct title ‘Plotter (part 1...

1-02-2006 | The subject of this month’s installment of Retronics is a small brownish suitcase which, when first opened (Figure 1), took me back instantl...

1-01-2006 | The Philips MX293 Personal Mobile Radio (PMR) is an oddball transceiver in that it employs AM (amplitude modulation) rather than far more us...

1-12-2005 | an old analogue multimeter is that you find yourself actually thinking before taking a measurement. Questions you ask yourself should includ...

1-11-2005 | When I saw this radio in its beautifully polished wooden case on the pavement beside a garbage bin ready for collection I could not resist s...

1-10-2005 | The Elektor Time Standard and associated Slave Unit were spin-offs of another hugely successful project, the DCF77 Receiver / Locked Frequen...

1-06-2005 | The Elektor Vocoder is a project with great nostalgic value, witness the interest expressed in it on quite a few web sites. Even if you do n...

1-05-2005 | In most European countries, the TV set took about ten years to become an affordable and common electrical item in households. The equipment...

1-01-2005 | Although the Elektor Junior computer was not the first home-built computer based on the 6502 processor (the KIM and others having achieved s...