Practical Wireless issues online
There are six issues of Practical Wireless, earliest August 1964, latest
August 1973, available for download on the Internet Archive. The editor
W.N. Stevens was strongly against pirate radio. The April 1966 issue has
an editorial “Law of the Jungle” ending with advice to the Postmaster
General “Let him no longer tolerate the law of the jungle”.
The February 1967 edition editorial is entitled Troubled Waters and
deals with the prosecutions of Radio 390 and Radio Essex. There is also
a detailed 2 page account of the court cases, particularly 390’s on page
740 and 741 of the same issue. In the Sinclair Radionics advert on page
379 of the August 1964 issue there’s a report that T.F.C, Windsor among
many others are picking up Caroline and Atlanta on their Micro-6 radios
headlined Brings In Pirates! Some excellent reading, in particular some
of the adverts. The magazine also had a column dealing with shortwave
broadcast band radio and in some editions medium wave DXing. The issues
can be downloaded at http://bit.ly/TmOjkX