[HBR] RE: Jay's Story

[shoppa_hbr at trailing-edge.com]

"Bruce Wright" <shortwaves at msn.com> wrote:
> Among the recent postings here, someone wrote (and to paraphrase) that there 
> were more interesting articles in one issue of QST from the 1950's than a 
> whole year of the current version...That is a statement I find not only true 
>   but also a telling clue as to where, perhaps, the collective mind-set has 
> drifted or moved on to with regard to the "nuts and bolts" of our hobby.
>
> When I was but twelve years old, in 1957, those first HBR articles appeared 
> and I was at that point not anywhere near to understanding them but they 
> captured my imagination.

In a different context, someone once defined the "Golden Era" of anything
as being what was done when you were reading when you were 12 years old.

> would come in 1958) and listening to W1AW code practice sessions on 80 and 
> 40 with my freshly built Knight Space Spanner (which, by the way was my 
> first "communications" receiver!)

I came along a number of years later but the Space Spanner was my first
too :-).

Tim.