This week on the channel +49K views this week

Before the app: w2aew revisits slide-chart calculators

The hobby-electronics channel's active catalog also covers amplifier impedance and handheld duplexer tuning.

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Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

#416: Vintage Tools: Slide Chart computers/calculators - before there was "an app for that!"

A calculator didn't always need batteries, let alone a screen. In w2aew's vintage-tools video, slide charts offer a reminder of how quick calculations once fit into a simple mechanical gadget.

There were no new uploads this week, but the channel added about 49,000 views. Its subscriber count stayed unchanged, while daily viewing is currently a little above its usual level. Among nearby science channels, Astrum Extra had a much larger viewing week; w2aew's was the smallest weekly total in this group.

The slide-chart episode describes tools used across farming, plumbing and electronics, often handed out by companies as advertising items that also did a useful job. That practical streak connects neatly to the channel's other active lessons: calculations are only part of the point, measuring something is the other part.

The busiest video for daily views is "#412: Common Emitter Amplifier - Input and Output Impedance," which tackles both calculations and measurements, including the emitter-bypass case. It is drawing roughly twice the daily audience of the vintage-calculator episode. The other active tutorial, "#414: How to use an SV4401A VNA to tune a duplexer," moves into ham-radio test equipment, showing how to set up a handheld vector network analyzer to examine a band-reject duplexer's tuning adjustments.

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The videos drawing views on w2aew right now

#412: Common Emitter Amplifier - Input and Output Impedance21,982 views

#414: How to use an SV4401A VNA to tune a duplexer9,847 views

The facts

Channel: w2aew
Subscribers: 232,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 49,034
Videos published this week: 0

The numbers

Here is w2aew's week in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

1,435,541

388,161

353,862

185,520

114,728

81,865

Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong

81,640

Fran Blanche

64,433

w2aew

49,034

subscribers

232,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

30,593,969

views per day

10,105

typical day: 7,672

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

334,000

326,000

299,000

285,000

257,000

255,000

232,000

Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong

228,000

WeatherWatchTV

145,000

As of October 11, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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