[SFDXA] Who was Wayne Green W2NSD? (it is now pouring in from other sites and lists)

[Mickey Baker]

Wayne Green was in his heyday when I was a young ham going to high school
in 1969-1972. I couldn't afford both an ARRL membership and 73
subscription, so I talked the local library into subscribing to 73 (and Ham
Radio).

Wayne loved to attack the ARRL - from the QSL buro to the field
organization, he made some good points in his editorials and (IMO) made the
ARRL more responsive to members.

Most issues of 73 Magazine are available for you to read at:
http://archive.org/details/73-magazine
- check out W2NSD/1's editorials, Leaky Lines.

73... and goodbye, Wayne. You left amateur radio a number of years back,
but amateur radio will never forget you.

Mickey N4MB



On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Bill <bmarx at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Who was Wayne Green W2NSD? Most do not even address his Ham Radio History.
>
> From Other Lists:
>
> Wayne Green is an American publisher and writer, and consultant. He was
> formerly editor of CQ magazine before he went on to found 73, 80 Micro,
> Byte, CD Review, Cold Fusion, Kilobaud Microcomputing, RUN, InCider, and
> Pico, as well as publishing books and running a software company. In the
> early 1980s, he assisted in the creation of the groundbreaking Brazilian
>
> Many of us remember him as W2 Never Say Die
>
> 73, Wayne, N4FP
>
> [link to waynegreen.com}
>
> Licensed by the Federal Communications Commission in the Amateur Radio
> Service with the callsign W2NSD, he was involved in a number of
> controversies and disputes in the Ham Radio world, notably with the ARRL
> and
> CQ magazines.
>
> Who is Wayne Green?
>
> piloted a nuclear attack submarine 800 feet under the Pacific ocean.
> piloted an Air Force C5B (it's bigger than a 747).
> climbed the Great Wall of China
> visited the Chinese terra cotta army in Xian.
> operated a ham station from the famed American Embassy in Tehran.
> operated from the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
> operated for two weeks from King's Hussein's palace in Amman, Jordan.
> visited the lost city of Petra in Jordan.
> scuba dived in the Red Sea.
> visited 140 countries (so far).
> helped new technologies such as cellular telephones. personal computers,
> and
> compact discs to grow into major industries.
> represented the US at an international communications conference.
> represented New Hampshire for Governor Sununu at a governor's conference in
> Halifax.
> served on the New Hampshire Economic Development Commission.
> been a president of the Peterborough NH Chamber of Commerce.
> been on the board of directors of billion dollar IDG corporation.
> been a professional psychologist.
> had over 1,000 (long) editorials published - so far.
> started first digital communications magazine in 1951, (Amateur Radio
> Frontiers).
> started the first microcomputer magazine (Byte). ) started the first
> computer magazine devoted to a single computer (80 Micro - for the TRS-80)
> started the first Apple magazine (InCider).
> started the first Commodore magazine (Run).
> started the first laptop computer magazine (Pico).
> started one of the first personal computer software companies (Instant
> Software).
> opened computer software stores - eventually sold a national chain of 58
> stores.
> while in college started a broadcasting station (WRPI) which is now the
> largest student activity.
> served on the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Board of Overseers and RPI
> Council.
> served as the First Executive in Residence at RPI.
> served as a consultant for the RPI Business Incubator - which won the 1996
> prize as the best in the country.
> been a licensed amateur radio operator as W2NSD since 1940.
> pioneered amateur radio repeaters since 1969, starting with WRLAAB on Mt.
> Monadnock NH.
> established amater radio in Jordan in 1970 and wrote their rules and
> regulations.
> supplied and installed the first repeater in Jordan, J-Y73, in 1973.
> helped radio amateurs pioneer FM, radio Teletype, single sideband, and slow
> scan TV.
> bounced amateur radio signals off the Moon from the big dish at the Arecibo
> Observatory, PR.
> been editing and publishing amateur radio magazines for 47 years.
> a state-of-the-art digital recording studio.
> four record labels and produced over 150 CDs.
> helped re-popularize ragtime music and personally knows all of the top
> ragtime performers.
> started 25 successful publications in the radio, computer and music fields.
> published over 100 books.
> wrote one of the first books on digital communications.
> been on an African hunting safari.
> visited the ruins of Ba'albek in Lebanon, the Queen of Sheba's water
> catchments in Aden.
> visited the Pyramids, the Sphynx. the ruins in Athens, the Taj Mahal and
> Katmandu.
>
> read more at link:
>
> [link to www.waynegreen.com]
>
>
> Obit on ARRL web site:
> http://www.arrl.org/news/ham-**radio-publications-pioneer-**
> visionary-iconoclast-wayne-**green-w2nsd-sk<http://www.arrl.org/news/ham-radio-publications-pioneer-visionary-iconoclast-wayne-green-w2nsd-sk>
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-- 
Mickey Baker, N4MB
Fort Lauderdale, FL
*“Tell me, and I will listen. Show me, and I will understand. Involve me,
and I will learn.” *Teton Lakota, American Indian Saying.