[Boatanchors] 1931 CQ Magazine

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Sat Mar 7 19:21:11 EST 2015


Hi Richard,
I have the November 1936  issue and March 1937.
Scratchi's column is in both of those.

73 Larry WA9VRH

On 3/7/2015 5:12 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>
>       The last of the Radio magazines on the Bunker of Doom site, 
> December 1935 answers the question about when they moved from San 
> Francisco to Los Angeles. It announced the merger of Radio with 
> another magazine, R-9 and the move.  So from 1936 until about 1940 
> they were in Los Angeles and then in Santa Barbara possibly until the 
> change to CQ after which it was an east coast publication.  I also 
> found some material on Herb Becker, long time author for both Radio 
> and CQ.  CQ was a new magazine founded in 1945 by Radio Magazines who 
> continued to publish Radio until 1947 when it became Audio 
> Engineering, later called just Audio.
>       Nothing more about the history of Scratchi.  Someone with a good 
> collection of these magazines could find out when the Scratchi column 
> was discontinued (or if it was) and when and where it re-appeared.  
> Since the note about George Loyd Jr seems to have been written by 
> people who had no notion of the magazine' s history the dates are not 
> very reliable.
>      This is all seriously off-topic but I am assuming that people 
> interested in boat anchor radios also have some general interest in 
> history and in the culture of the time that produced them.
> On 3/7/2015 3:47 AM, Rob Atkinson wrote:
>> Scratchi ran an APACHE
>>
>> haw haw haw
>>
>> Rob
>> K5UJ
>>
>



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