The Shift to Electronic Publishing

Nearly 10 years ago, Telonics jumped into the publishing business with the Telonics Quarterly. The goal was to provide customers with current information of practical help to the field. The first issue, published in the Fall of 1988, included articles on "real-time" and "time-delay" sensors, tips on avoiding static electricity problems with receivers, an overview of antennas, and notes on the proper care and exercising of transmitters.

Over the next 10 years, hundreds of other technical articles followed. A gratifying number of them found their way into college classrooms and professional field conferences around the world. By 1996, the mailing list for the newsletter had grown to include over 8,000 researchers. Since many of the articles we had published over the years were still being used as technical notes, we made another big decision that year - to build a website on the Internet that included all back issues of the Quarterly with abstracts and a key word search capability. After months of development, the new Telonics home page opened in Fall 1996.