[Milsurplus] Tom Kneitel revisionist view

[Joe Connor]

Those old EIs are great. How about all those ads for distributors that were trying to get rid of their old tube inventory? Some places were selling tubes for less than $1, including audio tubes that now go for a small fortune. Does anyone have a time machine that I can borrow?

                                            Joe Connor



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> From: Bruce MacMillan <bruce-macmillan3 at sky.com>
>To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net 
>Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 12:39 PM
>Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Tom Kneitel revisionist view
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>All this talk about authors of the past caused me to dig out the 3 
>copies of EI I've had for decades. The first one was March 1966 and on 
>the front cover it introduces an "exciting new reader participation 
>feature" called Uncle Tom's Corner.
>
>I think the "about the author" bit must have been written by him.
>
>"Tom Kneitel has been called an irascible misanthrope, a rabble rouser 
>and the dirty old man of electronics. Whatever he's called, Tom has had 
>a greater influence on hobby electronics in recent years than any other 
>author. As the leading shortwave listening writer, he once took a major 
>hand in shaping that avocation. He then gave the Citizen's Band it's 
>name and was instrumental in making it into the world's most dynamic 
>radio service."
>
>Not in the March issue but in the November 1966 issue EI (2nd copy I 
>have) the Ham Shack column appears edited by Wayne Green.
>
>Reading these issues sure takes me back.and of course the Lafayette & 
>Allied catalogue cards are missing for good reasons.
>
>Bruce   m0soe
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