[Boatanchors] 1931 CQ Magazine

[John via Boatanchors]

Sure is fun reading all those old rags.  Just wish I had more  time.  
Thanks for posting the link.
Might even think of building a couple of those old rigs if I can find the  
parts.
 
73,  John,  W4AWM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 3/7/2015 7:22:01 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
wa9vrh at wildblue.net writes:

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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