[Milsurplus] Wayne

[Hue Miller]

Wayne Greene is a more interesting case. He does deserve much honor for 
serving on
a US sub in WW2. And pushing for several innovations in ham radio over the 
years. I
don't think ham radio could carry all the hopes he had for it as a medium of 
meaningful
communication, and it's been totally superseded for that use.

There are a lot of discrepancies in his output. I seem to remember one 
column where he
told about working DX from something like Nepal with a QRP rig; in some 
later column
the transmitter had become a signal generator (test equipment thing. )  His 
recommendation
of the 'raw food diet' is just odd. The diet "works" because you assimilate 
less calories.
Less calories means you tend to age slower, and are less subject to chronic 
disease; but
there are good reasons why we, humans, adopted cooking. The raw foods diet 
might have
worked pretty well in the Garden of Eden, but we evicted from that place 
that have to deal
with harder, tougher, and colder materials.

I found a small "tell it all" booklet about Wayne Greene, by one of his long 
term dedicated
enemies, at a hamfest a while back. I don't recall the title right now. In 
some ways the
account it tells is like some of the tabloids you see at the checkout 
counter with their
outrageous revelations. I would discuss that with you in person, but some of 
it is too
questionable to mention here.
-Hue Miller