[GreenKeys] Great interview with ham radio pioneer Wayne Green

[Bob McConnell]

Ralph Mowery wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan Brodie" <greenkeys at vaporland.com>
>> I have never heard of "73 Magazine" - but now I kind of wish I had!
>>
>> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9111800&intsrc=hm_list 
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>>
> 
> I subscribed to it from about 1976 to the time it went out of business. 
> There were lots of rtty articals and microprocessor articals in it.  
> They would be worth looking up if you ever get the chance. The last few 
> years the magazine went down hill, but I think many of the ham radio 
> magazines did also.
> 
> I think he was loosing it the last few years.  He took off on the cold 
> fusion for power and some kind of silver treatments for illness.

Every issue of 73 I ever saw was more than half full of construction 
articles. I recall it had one of the first class D linear amps for HF, 
numerous tuners, accessories, transceivers, etc. If you looked long 
enough you would find something you couldn't live without. I wish I 
could get my hands on some of them from the early to mid 70's. My copies 
were lost in a flash flood a couple of decades ago. It was merged with 
"Ham Radio" a short time before that disappeared.

Wayne was always a character though. There were rumors he was one of the 
founders of Mensa, but left it when it became a social group instead of 
the leadership organization he envisioned. The loss of "Byte" left him 
bitter for several years. When he started "Kilobaud" he wanted to call 
it "Kilobyte" but the lawyers wouldn't let him. He was never anywhere 
near politically correct. He also found and provided an outlet for some 
amazing jazz musicians. His editorials were always entertaining and 
provocative.

Bob McConnell
N2SPP