Elektuur, now called Elektor, was popular in central Europe in the 70s. The ham radio people and strictly non-ham radio people like to pretend the other doesn'

Elektuur, now called Elektor, was popular in central Europe in the 70s. The ham radio people and strictly non-ham radio people like to pretend the other doesn't exist although they do nearly the same hobby, and amateur radio is much larger, more active, and richer (in the sense of more stuff and more expensive capable stuff) ... Funkamateur from Germany and some title in kanji that I can't enter on this keyboard from the Japan Amateur Radio League have been published for most of a century and are pretty active. There is an uncanny valley effect. German schematic diagrams are full of "R" as a decimal place, rare in the 80s metric prefixes (cut it out with the nanofarads plz) and swapping periods and commas in long numbers. And there was something unusual about European scientific notation that I don't remember. Also there is more total electronic hobby and electronic kit activity and sales now than at any time in history, despite endless accurate yet misleading claims that since the death of the Heathkit company no individual company has come close to monopolizing 90% of kit sales. No slice of the pie today is nearly as large as heathkits slice of the pie, but the pie overall is vastly larger.