[ARC5] Radio Electronics Magazine

[Mike Everette]

Bruce,
Thank you for this posting. The lesson you're teaching, and which most of us learned from Gordon, Don Stoner et al, is valuable.  Today, however, it seems that the prevailing mentality is "If it can't be done on the computer, it's too much trouble to mess with."  
I too value the lessons learned from the Surplus column.  I learned more about radio, and how it worked/didn't work, from messing with surplus gear than I'd have ever discovered otherwise.
And I still enjoy it.
73
Mike
WA4DLF



      From: Bruce Long via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
 To: Mike Morrow <kk5f at arrl.net>; "arc5 at mailman.qth.net" <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> 
 Sent: Friday, August 26, 2016 3:48 PM
 Subject: Re: [ARC5] Radio Electronics Magazine
   
GordonYour surplus column had a significant effect on my life and career and perhaps even personality as well.
In very general terms surplus conversion teaches you can make something valuable or desirable from something much less valuable, a lesson I am teaching my 6 year old son and my 10 year old daughter.  Among other things we make toy boats and airplanes and cars and trucks and doll houses from scrap wood left over from home repair projects. 

I want my children to learn you can make something worthwhile from worthless stuff, and you can make things worth having that you cannot buy at any price.  

So far my children seem to be taking to and embracing this lesson.
My son has told me he will do the same with his son.
So Gorden your influence may well extend over three generations.


      From: Mike Morrow <kk5f at earthlink.net>
 To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net 
 Sent: Friday, August 26, 2016 1:25 PM
 Subject: Re: [ARC5] Radio Electronics Magazine
  
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
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