[ARC5] Radio Electronics Magazine

[Bruce Long]

Yeah Wayne was a wild man, the Donald Trump of amateur radio but if you did not take him seriously your could greatly enjoy his editorial hi-jinks.  Bear baiting with the ARRL voluntarily taking the role of the bear and Green as the ittys bitty terrier nipping at the bears feet.  Not too much blood but one serious swipe from the bear could end it all.
His ideas were crazy, some might have been crazy enough to work.  We'll never know.


      From: Gene Smar <ersmar at verizon.net>
 To: 'Glen Zook' <gzook at yahoo.com>; 'Bruce Long' <coolbrucelong at yahoo.com>; 'Robert Eleazer' <releazer at earthlink.net> 
Cc: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
 Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2016 7:40 PM
 Subject: RE: [ARC5] Radio Electronics Magazine
   
#yiv1468201435 #yiv1468201435 -- _filtered #yiv1468201435 {font-family:Helvetica;panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;} _filtered #yiv1468201435 {panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;} _filtered #yiv1468201435 {font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}#yiv1468201435 #yiv1468201435 p.yiv1468201435MsoNormal, #yiv1468201435 li.yiv1468201435MsoNormal, #yiv1468201435 div.yiv1468201435MsoNormal {margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;}#yiv1468201435 a:link, #yiv1468201435 span.yiv1468201435MsoHyperlink {color:#0563C1;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv1468201435 a:visited, #yiv1468201435 span.yiv1468201435MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:#954F72;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv1468201435 span.yiv1468201435EmailStyle17 {color:#1F497D;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;}#yiv1468201435 .yiv1468201435MsoChpDefault {font-size:10.0pt;} _filtered #yiv1468201435 {margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}#yiv1468201435 div.yiv1468201435WordSection1 {}#yiv1468201435 I subscribed to 73 Mag in its several incarnations since 1965 when I was first licensed at age 13.  (Check out my favorite article “QRZed the YL” sometime.)  I wrote an article that appeared in the Sept 1967 issue.  Like Glen, I wrote my article in a short period of time and was paid before the article appeared.  That $10 for a one pager enabled me to open my first savings account.    I enjoyed Wayne’s Op-Ed column and usually read that first when each issue arrived.  I miss that old rag.    73 deGene Smar  AD3F      From: ARC5 [mailto:arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Glen Zook via ARC5
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2016 12:00 PM
To: Bruce Long <coolbrucelong at yahoo.com>; Robert Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net>; arc5 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Radio Electronics Magazine  Until Wayne Green sold his magazine empire and then got back most of it less than 2-years later, for 73 Magazine you got a cheque, to pay for the article, as the acceptance.  After getting the magazines back, he went to the payment after publication method that most magazines routinely do.  Sometimes, it was a year, or more, after the article was purchased, that it appeared in print and sometimes the article never was in the magazine.  But, the author had his / her money!      During the last several years before the magazine folded, authors were not getting paid.  Wayne told me, a couple of years before he died, that the office manager was writing cheques to herself for the amount due to the author and then marking the debt as paid.  According to Wayne, she disappeared one day and could not be found.  Shortly after that, for financial reasons, the magazine folded.      I first met Wayne Green at the ARRL Central Division Convention in Springfield, Illinois, in August 1961.  He had already purchased the first magazine article that I ever wrote paying me $30.00 for an article that took up 2/3rds of a page (in the old small size format) including a diagram.  I was a junior in high school when I wrote the article and $30.00, for about 15-minutes effort, was a small fortune in 1960!  In 1968, Wayne Green paid me $1800.00 for a single article!  I bought my wife a new Ford Station Wagon with the money.      Wayne Green was a shrewd operator.  I know for a fact that he often wrote things, especially in his editorials, in which he really did not believe.  But, people would purchase the magazine just to see what he was doing next and that is what he wanted, more magazine sales.      Wayne, and I, co-chaired the FM forum at SAROC, in Las Vegas, January 1972.  There were several hundred in attendance.     Glen, K9STH   Website: http://k9sth.net  From: Bruce Long via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
To: Robert Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net>; "arc5 at mailman.qth.net" <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2016 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Radio Electronics Magazine  Yeah  there is no real financial reasons to write for a magazine- possible exceptions for big name big circulation rags but even their I have my doubts.  I split a $25 check many years ago with another ham for an article we wrote and submitted to 73  Not complaining  We did not do it for the money  

   
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