[ARC5] Radio Electronics Magazine

[Richard Knoppow]

     Very interesting and may help account for my confusion about CQ. I 
believe Sanford Cowan was publisher of other magazines as well as CQ.

On 8/25/2016 12:22 PM, Glen Zook via ARC5 wrote:
> 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
>
>
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> *From:* john rose <brokenthumb at live.com>
> *To:* arc5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 25, 2016 10:28 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [ARC5] Radio Electronics Magazine
>
> 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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Richard Knoppow
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