[Milsurplus] Tom Kneitel revisionist view

[jmfranke]

Wayne Greene: W2NSD

And do not forget his IOAR (Institute Of Amateur Radio?)

John  WA4WDL

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From: "don davis" <dxguy at earthlink.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 6:11 AM
To: "'Hue Miller'" <kargo_cult at msn.com>; <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Tom Kneitel revisionist view

> Good stuff.  I loved his humor, me being a callow kid.  Also realized he 
> was
> "limited" in tech knowledge.
>
> Now, the real enigma is Wayne Greene, W1NSD of CQ, 73, Byte magazines.  A
> very active, knowledgeable, inventive guy in his youth.  His rants over 
> the
> past 20 years are, however, amazing.  Believes the strangest stuff, and
> boasts that he single-handedly invented and is responsible for most 
> current
> ham radio technical developments.  Very sad fall.
>
> 73 de don
>
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> [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Hue Miller
> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 10:22 PM
> To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Milsurplus] Tom Kneitel revisionist view
>
> Great stuff? I have mixed feelings about 'great'.  For a long while when 
> he
> was at the helm of Popular Communications magazine, it seemed to be a
> shoestring operation and depended greatly on monthly anecdotes and
> reminisces spun out of Tom's memory, and resorted to graphics from his own
> collected images. Thus the article on US monitors on the  East Coast 
> hearing
> WW2 Panzer communications, was supplemented with photos of US M-48 post 
> war
> tanks, and a photo of some grade school electronics class was somehow
> associated with an article on the Chinese military.  When I commented to 
> him
> on this, he replied that I had no qualifications as a photo editor, which 
> is
> true enough. And that he owned a Trans-Am and a boat. I sure as hell wish
> I'd saved that letter; it would be a classic collectible.
> I also recall his caption comments in some surplus circuits collection,
> comments that were intended more for humorous effect than description, and
> in some instances were dead wrong, pure hearsay. Never let the facts get 
> in
> the way of a good story.
> Also, in some transistor circuits collection, compiled by T.K., a diode 
> off
> the IF stage called a 'panadaptor' device. Connected to your oscilloscope,
> it shows what - a CW signal as DC levels?
> How about the "Ask Tom" column, which was copped from "Ask Uncle Tom" in 
> the
> automotive pages of Mechanix Illustrated. Kneitel aped the confident
> savoir-faire of Tom McCahill and even too it farther, with the dangling
> cigarette and the
> wise-
> guy answers.
> I see him as a technical pretender, but a good entertainer, a teller of
> stories. And good stories are maybe best when they're not 100% true.
> -Hue Miller
>
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