Electronics Now: version 1

Saved 2026-09-24 23:43 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added UPC 0 09128 48783 0 as the newsstand barcode of Electronics Now (Gernsback Publications, 1992-1999), successor title of Radio-Electronics. Identity from the scanned covers of October 1992 and Se. This is the current version.

Source of v1

# Electronics Now <!--brand-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Electronics Now
disambiguation: US electronics hobbyist magazine, 1992–1999
summary: Masthead title of the Gernsback Publications monthly that succeeded Radio-Electronics.
founded: 1992-07
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role     | target                         | market | from    | until   | ended | status  | source       | note                             |
| -------- | ------------------------------ | ------ | ------- | ------- | ----- | ------- | ------------ | -------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/gernsback-publications |        | 1992-07 | 1999-12 | true  | printed | ^wrh-1992-10 | Publisher named in the masthead. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name              | type   | locale | from | until   |
| ----------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ------- |
| Radio-Electronics | search | en     |      | 1992-06 |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref         | url                                                                                                | title                                | accessed   | publisher                                                   | kind        | published | record_id | locator               | licence      | attribution | upstream |
| ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------ | ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | --------------------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| wrh-1992-10 | https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-Electronics/90s/1992/Radio-Electronics-1992-10.pdf | Electronics Now, October 1992 (scan) | 2026-09-24 | Gernsback Publications (scan hosted by World Radio History) | publication | 1992-10   |           | Front cover; masthead |              |             |          |
| wikipedia   | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-Electronics                                                    | Radio-Electronics                    | 2026-09-24 | Wikipedia                                                   | other       |           |           |                       | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
Electronics Now was the title Gernsback Publications gave its Radio-Electronics magazine in July 1992; it ran under that name until the January 2000 merger with Popular Electronics that created Poptronics.[^wikipedia] Each monthly issue carried construction projects, circuit tutorials and test-equipment articles for hobbyists and technicians.[^wrh-1992-10]
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