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Date range Volume Number Date Click here Comments
           
1956/1957 1 1 Oct-56  here  First issue 
    2 Feb-57  here   
    3 Jun-57  here   
1957/1958 2 1 Oct-57  here   
    2 Feb-58  here  
    3 Jun-58  here   
1958/1959 3 1 Oct-58  here   
    2 Feb-59  here   
    3 Jun-59  here   
1959/1960 4 1 Oct-59  here  Part 1 of 2 
    1 Oct-59 here Part 2 of 2
    2 Feb-60  here   
    3 Jun-60  here  
1960/1961 5 1 Oct-60  here  Price doubled to 5 shillings! 
    2 Feb-61 here  
    3 Jun-61  here Nigerian focus 
1961/1962 6 1 Oct-61  here   
    2 Feb-62  here   
    3 Jun-62  here   
1962/1963 7 1 Oct-62  here   
    2 Feb-63 here  
    3 Jun-63  here   
1963/1964 8 1 Oct-63  here   
    2 Feb-64  here  
    3 Jun-64  here   
1964/1965 9 1 Oct-64  here   
    2 Feb-65  here   
    3 Jun-64  here   
1965/1966 10 1 Oct-65 here  
    2 Feb-66 here   
    3 Jun-66 here   
    4 Oct-66 here   
1967 11 1 Jan-67  here  Part 1 of 2 
    1  Jan-67  here Part 2 of 2 
    2 Apr-67 here   
    3 Jul-67 here   
    4 Oct-67  here   
1968 12 1 Jan-68 here   
    2 Apr-68 here   
    3 Jul-68 here   
    4 Oct-68 here  Part 1 of 2 
    4  Oct-68  here  Part 2 of 2
1969 13 1 Jan-69 here   
    2 Apr-69 here  
    3 Jul-69 here   
    4 Oct-69  here   
1970 14 1 Jan-70  here   
    2 Apr-70  here   
    3 Aug-70  here   
1971 15 1 Jan-71  here  Now 50 New Pence!
    2 May-71  here   
    3 Sep-71  here   
1972 16 1 Jan-72 here   
    2 May-72 here  
    3 Sep-72  here   
1973 17 1 Jan-73  here   
    2 May-73  here   
    3 Sep-73  here   
1974 18 1 Jan-74  here  Original table 1 is here
   
    Links to articles relating to 
   
    this issue 1.  2.  3.  4.  5.
   
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Comments (4)

David Samways said

at 11:44 pm on Sep 21, 2016

It is thought that January 1974 may be the last issue. Can anyone confirm this or otherwise?

Alan Hartley-Smith said

at 6:49 pm on Nov 13, 2021

This query probably arose from a problem that arose from one of the articles in this issue that resulted in a re-issue and possibly hastened the merger - details are being assembled.

Alan Hartley-Smith said

at 7:07 pm on Nov 13, 2021

See previous comment - information received - On the Point to Point page you ask "It is thought that January 1974 may be the last issue. Can anyone confirm this or otherwise?"
I believe that it was the last _complete_ issue, but that's not the whole story: because of the debacle resulting from Sosin's article in that issue, an apology was issued to Racal, with instructions to subscribers to "withdraw the existing edition ... totally from circulation" (See "The Great Marconi Mishap" in Radio Bygones #87 of Feb 2004). A few libraries did retain a copy though, eg the Bodleian in Oxford lists "two booklets" for 1974 (they have complete volumes for the earlier years). The second booklet is presumably the revised edition of Sosin's article and the accompanying table.

Alan Hartley-Smith said

at 7:16 pm on Nov 13, 2021

Additions to above comment:
As for Sosin's article, the non-Marconi receivers in his analysis were anonymised by assigning letters to them, but some were easily identifiable from their IFs, dimensions, etc. They included Racal's RA17L and their latest receiver, the RA1772. Unfortunately, not only were some of the relevant values in the table wrong, it was also asserted that receivers A & B failed to meet their specs. Those were both Racal receivers and Racal were understandably upset and called in the lawyers. The result was the withdrawal of the offending issue and a letter of apology that was circulated to all subscribers and also reproduced in the preface to a revised April 1974 edition of the Sosin article.

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