[GreenKeys] Great interview with ham radio pioneer Wayne Green

[Lee Mushel]

Gosh, yes!   And I guess all of the projects I built must have been part of
that half that never worked!   But, no matter, I had fun!   And don't forget
there was only one Radio Shack store and only one Lafayette Radio!   and you
could buy stuff from Allied Radio....

Lee   K9WRU
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <wa2hwj at att.net>
To: "Bob McConnell" <rmcconne at lightlink.com>; <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Great interview with ham radio pioneer Wayne Green


> 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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