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Wireless Weekly

Wireless Weekly is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Wireless Weekly rather than just read about it. In short: 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.

Key takeaways

Wireless Weekly belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Wireless Weekly to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Wireless Weekly from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

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 McKenzie (née Wallace), aka 'Violet Wallace, 'Vera Wallace' and later 'Mrs Mac' (1890-1982), who owned a wireless shop in the Royal Arcade, Sydney, 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.

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, 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.

References

External links The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, -1943 on Trove

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Wireless Weekly

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Wireless Weekly claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Wireless Weekly before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Wireless Weekly ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Wireless Weekly

In research: Wireless Weekly appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Wireless Weekly in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Wireless Weekly is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Amateur radio magazines, Defunct magazines published in Australia, Hobby magazine stubs, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Wireless Weekly outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Wireless Weekly in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Wireless Weekly means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Wireless Weekly out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Wireless Weekly in simple terms?

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.

Why does Wireless Weekly matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Wireless Weekly?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Wireless Weekly.