[ARC5] Radio Electronics Magazine

[Glen Zook]

Richard Cowan could not have been more than 5-years old in 1945 if that old!  He is about my age, maybe  no more than 5-years older than I am and I was born in 1944.  He was the publisher of CQ Magazine during the time I was the first FM Editor (January 1971 through August 1973) and I met him, in person, several times during that period.


Sanford Cowan was his father and it was Sanford that became involved with CQ in the later half of the 1940s.  Sanford is listed as President in the August 1946 issue and then disappears later in the 1940s and then appears again.  I don't know just what was happening during the time period including whether or not Sanford Cowan sold his interests and then regained ownership or what.  However, Sanford Cowan never, at least as I can find out, ever have an amateur radio operator's license.  At least there was never any call listed, with his name, in any of the magazines.

 Glen, K9STH 
Website: http://k9sth.net

      From: john rose <brokenthumb at live.com>
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#yiv6442444589 #yiv6442444589 -- P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}#yiv6442444589 I used to read Audio magazine in the 70's and the masthead proclaimed themselves to be "Successor to Radio". I think I have seen a copy of Audio on a bookshelf in the last couple years. I don't know what the masthead says now. Audio Engineering is unrelated to this discussion. 
Richard Cowan founded "CQ" in 1945, says so right on the cover of their Anthology book of 1952. The only connection between it and "Radio" might be an overlapping of some staff members who worked both rags.
Radio was not taken over so much as it collapsed. Readership fell during the war, did not recover.
The "Radio Handbook" was often, and sometimes still is, called the "West Coast Handbook"
  
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