[Milsurplus] Wayne

[radioman390 at cs.com]

Wayne had a magazine devoted to the Radio Shack TRS-80, and then a title a bit more modern, like "kilobaud" (I just don't recall). Didn't he sell his empire for big bucks?

 

 



-----Original Message-----
From: Hue Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com>
To: milsurplus <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sat, Jul 20, 2013 4:58 pm
Subject: [Milsurplus] Wayne

 
 
 
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communication, and it's been totally superseded for that use.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  
 
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