[ARC5] Wayne Green

Mon Aug 29 14:31:52 EDT 2016

Even though Wayne Green, before he died, publicly posted, on several E-Mail reflectors, that he did not care if scanned copies of 73 Magazine were made available, at no charge, the truth be known is that he had no legal right to make such distribution. Since the article copyrights are still owned by the authors, each author would have to agree to such distribution and that is not possible. In the situation where the original author had died, his / her heirs would have to agree to the free distribution and finding these persons would be very difficult, if not impossible. However, the entire 73 Magazine collection is available for free from several different Internet sources and, unfortunately for the original authors, there is absolutely no way for them to get the royalties to which they are really entitled. 

You got paid once and that should be enough considering this is a hobby. Add to the facts that the magazine is out of production since 9/2003 and you stopped writing for them in 1973. 
Why do you keep complaining all over the Internet about the same subjects? 

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From: "Glen Zook via ARC5" <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> 
To: gewhite at crosslink.net, "Bruce Long" <coolbrucelong at yahoo.com>, "Robert Eleazer" <releazer at earthlink.net>, arc5 at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 10:44:48 AM 
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Wayne Green 

CQ paid for the FM column, and the other articles (i.e. equipment reviews) that I wrote for the magazine, promptly for about a year and a half. Then, they got slower and slower in paying until, finally, they owed me slightly over $1000 in August of 1973. Since I was in Texas, it was not feasible for me to go to Long Island and sit while they wrote me a cheque! So, I quite writing for the magazine! 

When I quit writing the FM Column, I had committed to speaking at a major amateur radio convention in September, 1973, at Lincoln, Nebraska. I did make this commitment even though CQ was not going to pay anything. My middle daughter was 6-weeks old at the time and my wife, my older daughter, and I, drove up to Lincoln to keep my promise! 

As for QST, my experience was the same. That is, I would not write for them because they did not pay anything (at the time, they now do pay authors) but still wanted transfer of the copyright. The then West Gulf Division Director, Roy Albright W5EYB, kept trying to get me to write for QST but I refused. QST still requires the transfer of the copyright even though most magazines do not. 73 Magazine did not require transfer of the copyright. 

Even though Wayne Green, before he died, publicly posted, on several E-Mail reflectors, that he did not care if scanned copies of 73 Magazine were made available, at no charge, the truth be known is that he had no legal right to make such distribution. Since the article copyrights are still owned by the authors, each author would have to agree to such distribution and that is not possible. In the situation where the original author had died, his / her heirs would have to agree to the free distribution and finding these persons would be very difficult, if not impossible. However, the entire 73 Magazine collection is available for free from several different Internet sources and, unfortunately for the original authors, there is absolutely no way for them to get the royalties to which they are really entitled. 

I never "made a living" from writing. However, writing articles for 73 Magazine, CQ Magazine, Ham Radio Magazine, Popular Electronics Magazine, etc., did make for a "tidy" second income. That, plus writing, for a number of years, a 3-times-a-week newspaper column for the Dallas Suburban Newspapers (owned by Belo, the publisher of the Dallas Morning News, other newspapers around the country, and several television and radio stations), provided funds for longer vacations, amateur radio equipment, my wife to spend, etc. 

Glen, K9STH 

Website: http://k9sth.net 

From: gordon white <gewhite at crosslink.net> 
To: Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com>; Bruce Long <coolbrucelong at yahoo.com>; Robert Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net>; "arc5 at mailman.qth.net" <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 5:50 AM 
Subject: Re: Wayne Green 

For what it's worth, I wrote a few things for 73 and Wayne always paid for them. I was a professional writer - made my living as a Washington newspaper correspondent working for out-of-town papers. The Chicago American (A Hearst paper and maybe not a great rag but interesting to work for and paid decently) folded up and I then worked for several western papers, none of which paid all that well, so my magazine writing was part of my bread and butter. CQ paid $100 per column for more than ten years, which was pretty decent at the time. QST occasionally asked me to write pieces for them, but their attitude was not only high-handed, but they thought the honor of being published in their mag was so high they did not have to pay for articles. Even a pittance! So I never wrote for QST. I wrote for the AOPA magazine and a few others. Later I was much better paid by some high-falutin' car magazines at a couple of thousand a piece, though eventually the one which paid best quit paying and still owes me a substantial amount. 

Getting paid regularly by CQ was not only good for my grocery bill, but I obviously was interested in the subjects, particularly the Command Sets. I graduated from High School in Mountain Lakes, N.J., next suburb to Boonton, where the A.R.C. executives lived and my dad, mayor of the borough. knew most of them. Then in Washington, I was close to information sources - Main Navy, the Pentagon, the Signal Corps files repository at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, the U.S. Archives and a lot of surplus sales sites. 

I think it was a piece in Western Radio Amateur that had a lot of errors that really got me into the Command Sets. 

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