27-11-2017, 07:24 AM
Amateur Radio magazine a new beginning
The December Amateur Radio magazine is its final monthly edition and will come out as a bi-monthly publication in 2018.
Later there will be reflection on that necessary change, and the opportunities it gives to refocus the magazine.
Before then lets recap how the WIA journal began and its evolvement over the decades.
It was in October 1933 that the first edition of Amateur Radio was published by the WIA Victorian Division. The magazine continued until a few months after the outbreak of WWII in September 1939. Then wanting to continue the WIA and hold together the hobby, it was a hand cranked duplicator magazine during the war years. On the cessation of hostilities the WIA reported the resumption of the hobby, and its negotiations with authorities.
The next major phase was when Amateur Radio magazine and other historical WIA matters like the membership database run at the Victorian Division went to a new company WIA Federal in 1972. The magazine evolution saw it adopt modern production and printing techniques, moving from manuscripts that had to be converted to print, to digital files on disk, through to email attachments. It also went from a dowdy black and white publication to full colour.
Since 1933 Amateur Radio had sought to be a record of history, and will continue in that role. But in a bimonthly production, and so it can still have appeal of the changing audience the contents will naturally change, but this may take months to fully achieve.
Now the reality change.
Amateur Radio is the highest single expense of the Institute. It suffered mainly because of the 50 per cent increase in costs over the past few years.
As Amateur Radio enters the next phase; the readership, contributors, advertisers, and those steering the course of this publication, have their own part to play in its future.
(Jim Linton VK3PC)
From text edition for NOV 26 2017 - VK NATIONAL NEWS BROADCAST ON VK1WIA : http://www.wia.org.au/members/broadcast/wianews/
Also in MP3 edition of news available at: http://www.wia-files.com/podcast/wianews-2017-11-26.mp3
The December Amateur Radio magazine is its final monthly edition and will come out as a bi-monthly publication in 2018.
Later there will be reflection on that necessary change, and the opportunities it gives to refocus the magazine.
Before then lets recap how the WIA journal began and its evolvement over the decades.
It was in October 1933 that the first edition of Amateur Radio was published by the WIA Victorian Division. The magazine continued until a few months after the outbreak of WWII in September 1939. Then wanting to continue the WIA and hold together the hobby, it was a hand cranked duplicator magazine during the war years. On the cessation of hostilities the WIA reported the resumption of the hobby, and its negotiations with authorities.
The next major phase was when Amateur Radio magazine and other historical WIA matters like the membership database run at the Victorian Division went to a new company WIA Federal in 1972. The magazine evolution saw it adopt modern production and printing techniques, moving from manuscripts that had to be converted to print, to digital files on disk, through to email attachments. It also went from a dowdy black and white publication to full colour.
Since 1933 Amateur Radio had sought to be a record of history, and will continue in that role. But in a bimonthly production, and so it can still have appeal of the changing audience the contents will naturally change, but this may take months to fully achieve.
Now the reality change.
Amateur Radio is the highest single expense of the Institute. It suffered mainly because of the 50 per cent increase in costs over the past few years.
As Amateur Radio enters the next phase; the readership, contributors, advertisers, and those steering the course of this publication, have their own part to play in its future.
(Jim Linton VK3PC)
From text edition for NOV 26 2017 - VK NATIONAL NEWS BROADCAST ON VK1WIA : http://www.wia.org.au/members/broadcast/wianews/
Also in MP3 edition of news available at: http://www.wia-files.com/podcast/wianews-2017-11-26.mp3
