[ARC5] Radio Electronics Magazine

[Mike Morrow]

Gordon wrote:

> When I "retired" the surplus column at CQ they owed me money. I went to
> their offices on Long Island and sat there until they cut me a check,
> which I went across the street and cashed.

Fifty years ago, your column was the *only* reason I used very hard to find cash each month at the local drug store newsstand to buy an occasional "CQ".

I never learned to hate CQ, as I did the horrific pulp-minded technical illiteracy and idiocy of "73" with all of its founder's bizarrely narcissistic BS.  (Yes...I know W2NSD mucked up stuff at CQ for many years before that, and before that he almost single-handedly won the Pacific War as the most important man on his submarine.)  "Bash" cheat-books and "73"...the two best signs of ham radio decay in the late 1970s.

Mike / KK5F