[GreenKeys] Great interview with ham radio pioneer Wayne Green

[wa2hwj at att.net]

It was always my experience that about half of the construction articles in 
73 really ever worked!  I once built a RTTY TU with active filters and it took
months to get it to work correctly. 

But, I have to give Wayne credit for having some really good advertisers.
I got my first Model 19 when he ran one of his "Surplus" issues. Bought
it from a place called Selectronics in  Philadelphia, PA, when I was 15
years old. In those days you could ship up to 100 pounds for a fixed
"freight" price, so I bought 100 pounds of TTY perf tape...I still have some of
it!!!! (...good grief). Having moved 7 times and lugging that tape with me, the 
shipping costs continue to rise.

Remember Poly Paks, Godbout, and all of the outfits that sold TTL
chips and clock kits?

73,
Jack K0TTY
-------------- Original message from Bob McConnell <rmcconne at lightlink.com>: -------------- 


> Ralph Mowery wrote: 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan Brodie" 
> >> I have never heard of "73 Magazine" - but now I kind of wish I had! 
> >> >> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleI 
> d=9111800&intsrc=hm_list 
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > 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 
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