While researching the "Little General" and looking at the evolution of 4 valve Superhets this leads to going back to issues of Wireless Weekly.
What I am unclear of is exactly when the Wireless Weekly stopped being printed and distributed.
I can clearly see why Radio and Hobbies the magazine evolved from the tech section of WW, John Moyle clearly wanted his own mag divorced from all the radio star stuff.
Did the WW just die and Moyle pressed on issuing the 1939 April no 1 R&H issue alone?
Did WW continue to be published at the same time and when did it die?

Anybody have an answer?

Fred.

From Radio Museum:

QUOTE:
In March 1939 Wireless Weekly evolved into the monthly Radio & Hobbies magazine, first edition April 1939.”

From memory it then became "Radio TV & Hobbies" and then "Electronics Australia" in the 60's.

And then Silicon Chip!

Wireless Weekly, then Radio and Hobbies, then Radio, Television and Hobbies, then Electronics Australia.

There is some relations between Silicon Chip and Electronics Australia but it is not direct. Both magazines competed for many years and Silicon Chip's founder, Leo Simpson, was once the Editor in Chief of Electronics Australia. A coming together of sorts occurred when Electronics Australia ended it's long reign as the second-longest published periodical of its kind in the world after responding badly to a reader survey and wildly changing its content format. Basically, the publisher rolled over and Silicon Chip came along and purchased the company's intellectual property and copyright.

Silicon Chip remains Australia's only electronics magazine and at the height of the game in the 1980s, there were at least four magazines going hammer and tong.

Yeah, the Radio Museum description like many does not answer the question.

R&H is printed in the same house manner as WW but the point is when did WW cease to be published?
There is mention of special "WW" issues on certain subjects but not the general entertainment scene and not weekly.
Did the owners of the WW title cease production BEFORE Hull and Moyle created R&H.
Or did the two publications circulate together?
I know it's a small point, but I cannot tell by trawling through the info on the web about WW.

My wild guess, with no references, is Hull and Moyle got the heads up that WW was to cease so they acquired/bought the rights of the tech section of WW and morphed it into R&H.
From reading a lot of Moyles writings he considered that Radio and Entertainment were diverging and incompatible subjects.
R&H was going to be primarily a hobbyist and amateur radio venture, but the war scuppered that idea until 1946 or so.

I'm probably asking the impossible question but hoped somebody had researched WW history thoroughly and knew the story of the pivot point from WW to R&H.

Cheers, Fred.

Or did the two publications circulate together?

I don't know the exact answer to the question of when the last Wireless Weekly was published but the goal at the time was to simply convert from weekly prints to a monthly one. At the time I think the main change was no longer publishing radio programming and this could be because by that stage there were so many radio stations in Australia that the task would require a magazine in its own right without any other content.

Someone lucky enough to possess an entire collection of Wireless Weekly magazines may well have the right answer.

I have a handful of Wireless Weeklys from 1927 and one contains a letter to the editor from a bloke called Harold Burraston, from Murrurundi, NSW - a man I had the privilege of meeting about 25 years ago. He was a stock agent and ran clearing sales at a building in Murrurundi and I was lucky enough to get a tour of 'out the back' one day, once he knew I was a radio collector.

Unfortunately, Harold is no longer with us but I understand that some of his collection remains in the now disused building. It was mainly consoles and radiograms.

I believe there was an overlap with the two publications.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/233008050

The entire WW collection can read and downloaded from Trove Newspapers.

Thanks Mono for the reference.
The Jan 43 issue has no technical stuff in it at all so all the tech staff with John Moyle has moved to R&H.
That issue also advertises that WW will become a "pocketbook" size ( 51/2" x 71/2") as of next issue.
Sort of like a "Readers Digest" of the radio world.
So the publications diverged, WW to oblivion and R&H onward and upward
.Brad was right about the radio stations booming pre 39, every town must have had a radio station, there are listings of hundreds of local programs, page after page.
The come late 1939 and down came the guillotine on every body and their dog transmitting, with restrictions, equipment locked up and so on.
No wonder WW died, wartime restrictions on radio traffic would have shut a huge number of stations down, except for the government vetted and censored main stations.
Later on around 41 most radio techs were reserved or inducted like John Moyle, he appears to have gone into Army Signals.
He wrote about it in a later issue of R&H.
I know my Father was reserved and could not enlist, he worked for an Engineering firm that made all sorts of stuff to do with hydraulic controls and was also a radio nut with an outside workshop with transmit antennas ect.
All that got ripped out and down.
We were one of the few families that were given a land line phone so he was on call for gods knows what. All of a mystery because he died post war.
A search shows no trace of him in any service.
I have left it to my Sister to do further searches She is a dab hand at this..
Fred.

There were a few oddball things went on; Dads brother may have been in something military pre WW2 and was enlisted. I was in the Vietnam ballot but they did not draw my date, same applies with Tatts Lotto: keep missing my numbers.

He got as far as reporting, as required & his papers were stamped and he was sent home: Reserved occupation, he owned an orchard.

Marc