I was aware of AEM, but I only bought a a small number of them. I did build a couple of the mosfet amplifiers as featured in the first issue.
Anyone remember that Elektor had a go at publishing an Australian edition? That was back in 1983 - did not last for very long.
At the time I had a subscription to the UK Elektor, and all the content except for the ads was the same, so a local edition was not of much interest to me. I found I still have one though, looking a lot worse for wear, in my "curious objects" box. It is from December 1983, and in it the "managing editor", one Mans Korst, complains about Electronics Australia publishing a copy of an Elektor project earlier that year, together with a response from Leo, then EA editor, saying basically "oops, caught us out, we won't do that again".