''Wireless Weekly'' was Australia's first news-stand wireless magazine (not counting the '' AWA monthly''), published in 1922 in Sydney by William John Foster St Clair Maclardy ("W. J. Maclardy") and his father William McIntyre St Clair Maclardy ("W. M. Maclardy"). W. J. Maclardy was one of the founders of the "A" Class radio station 2SB (soon changed to 2BL). It arose from conversations between Florence Violet (Vera) McKenzie OBE (née Wallace), aka 'Violet Wallace, 'Vera Wallace' and later 'Mrs Mac' (1890-1982),Florence Violet McKenzie http://www.radiomuseum.org/dsp_hersteller_detail.cfm?company_id=16655 who owned a wireless shop in the Royal Arcade, Sydney,"Women and Wireless" in ''The Mercury'', 18 March 1922, p. 14 column 3. Ron Marsden her engineer, and Maclardy. The front cover featured a photo of amateur radio activity.

First issue

The first issue of ''Wireless Weekly'' was planned in weekly meetings in Mr. MacLardy's reportedly 'dark and dusty basement' in Castlereagh Street, Sydney. Mrs Mackenzie wrote industry news, components notes, a short story or maybe a wireless 'poem'. Mr. Marsden wrote technical article. Mr A. Mitchell, as Editor, arranged the material, adding relevant material from Sydney's Evening News daily where he worked. The first 12- page issue had a print run of a few hundred copies, and went on sale from Mrs. Mackenzie's shop at 8am on 4 August 1922. It carried the imprint: Published by WJ.MacLardy, 249 Castlereagh Street, Sydney. Violet_McKenzie_and_husband_Cecil_McKenzie

Violet_McKenzie_and_husband_Cecil_McKenzie

Initially ''Wireless Weekly'' was exclusively for amateurs, but gradually became a broadcast listeners' journal. With the start of commercial broadcasting in 1923, it featured information about commercial stations and programs and flourished, often exceeding 64 pages.

Sale and continued publication

In 1923 the publication was sold to Wireless Newspapers Ltd. As time passed, ''Wireless Weekly'' became a listeners' weekly program magazine sometimes including small booklets as supplements, listing amateur and commercial radio stations. The ''Wireless Weekly'' became the monthly magazine "Radio & Hobbies", then "Radio, Television & Hobbies", and finally

Electronics Australia ''Electronics Australia'' or ''EA'' was Australia's longest-running general electronics magazine. It was based in Chippendale, New South Wales. Publication history It can claim to trace its history to 1922 when the '' Wireless Weekly'' magazine ...

, and remained in circulation until 2001.

Special Publications

Throughout the life of Wireless Weekly, the publishers produced a range of adjuncts to the magazine. Sometimes these were simply supplements of a few pages, included in the sold magazine, but which could be readily separated from the magazine proper. But less frequently, larger special publications were produced and sold separately to the main magazine, including: * "A Booklet of Call Signs" 27 November 1931 * "What Station was That" 24 August 1934 * "What Station is That" 6 December 1935.VK2DYM'S MILITARY RADIO AND RADAR INFORMATION SITE http://www.qsl.net/vk2dym/radio/magazines.htm

References

External links

The wireless weekly : the hundred per cent Australian radio journal
-1943 on

Trove Trove is an Australian online library database owned by the National Library of Australia in which it holds partnerships with source providers National and State Libraries Australia, an aggregator and service which includes full text document ...

Amateur radio magazines Monthly magazines published in Australia Weekly magazines published in Australia Defunct magazines published in Australia Magazines established in 1922 Magazines disestablished in 1943 Magazines published in Sydney {{radio-stub