73 magazine online

[Sam KS2AM]

Technical articles and whacky editorials, all at your fingertips ...

http://www.archive.org/details/73-magazine

[KA8WTK]

Superb

[KC4ALF]

Great!

[W3GMS]

Thanks!  I have most in print, but its good to have an on-line source.
Joe, W3GMS

[WB2EMS]

This is great. I actually wrote a couple of articles for 73 back in the late 80's, early 90's. Poor Man's Packet, a software TNC and hardware modem combination was the cover article for the August 1991 issue. Just downloaded it. Funny to see myself when I still had some hair.  (page3)

I actually stopped by Peterborough NH on my way to see some friends in Windham to drop off the article and discuss it a bit with Bill Brown W8ELK. In the process, I got to meet Wayne Green. From the Never Say Die pages I expected a fire breathing curmudgeon, but he was just a nice grandfatherly gentleman and we had a nice chat.

They were a nice second or third voice in the amateur magazine market and I miss them.

[Steve - K4HX]

Check out the article on synchronous detection by Bill, W3DUQ in the September 1967 issue. Bill is one of the original hi-fi AMers, starting the trend way back in the 50's.

[W1RC]

This same site also has HAM RADIO MAGAZINE, a far superior publication, technically speaking.  You can read them online or download them in several formats including .pdf, epub and djvu.

http://www.archive.org/details/1986-01-hamradiomag

From the archive.org site:

"Ham Radio was a monthly amateur radio enthusiast magazine published in the United States from February 1968 to June 1990. At the 1990 Dayton Hamvention it was announced that Ham Radio had been sold to the publishers of CQ Amateur Radio. The June 1990 issue was the 268th and final issue published where subscribers were told of the sale and that they would receive CQ in the future"

There's also a TON of stuff on the site that is not ham radio related but nonetheless interesting.

ENJOY!

73 and happy Holidays to All!

MrMike, W1RC

[K1JJ]

Hmmm.... I never realized that Wayne Green's callsign, W2NSD, was an acronym for his column slogan, "Never Say Die" -  which translates to "unconquerable" ...

T

[W0BTU]

Check out the article on synchronous detection by Bill, W3DUQ in the September 1967 issue.

I see that circuit uses a couple of 7360 tubes. Is there a source for those? I thought they were unobtanium.

[WQ9E]

I see that circuit uses a couple of 7360 tubes. Is there a source for those? I thought they were unobtanium.

There are some other sheet beam tubes that can probably be substituted.    The 6AR8 and 6JH8 tubes are fairly common and the 6ME8 was used in a number of tv receivers also.

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

Plenty-o-7360s out there, just not in the $3-$5 category. $25-$35 last time I checked. Need to sock away some spares for a couple rigs here that use them.

[K5UJ]

Hmmm.... I never realized that Wayne Green's callsign, W2NSD, was an acronym for his column slogan, "Never Say Die" -  which translates to "unconquerable" ...

WG had that W2 call even when you were supposed to get a new one if you moved; he just always signed W2NSD/1.  So I guess the callsign pre-dated the column.  He was podcasting before it was called podcasting.  He had streaming audio files available, a sort of spoken word blog before blogs existed, available from his website in the mid to late 1990s.  I forget how often he put up a new one but for a time back then a co-worker and I would listen to him at lunch time.  He would give his thoughts and opinions column style as a lecture and it was fun to listen to him.  That was around the time he was a fairly regular guest on Coast to Coast AM. 

I once went to the Atlanta hamfest in 1977 when I was stationed at Ft. Gordon GA.  Wayne was there and gave a talk to a packed room.  He was (among other things) selling a new magazine there called Kilobaud.   He had started it after McGraw-Hill had taken over Byte.  He was into personal computing early on.  I don't remember much else except that he cracked a lot of jokes.   I understand he gets out to NEARFest now. 

[KM1H]

Thats an original call, I used to work Wayne on 2M AM in the 50's when he started at CQ running the RTTY column and then shifted to editor.

He is alive and as cranky as ever dealing with NH politics and shows up at Nearfest in good humor.

BTW, the 6AR8 is highly microphonic and saw very little OEM use so thats why they still how up cheap NIB.  I bought a NOS sleeve of 7360's last year for $10, my 75A4 uses a pair.

Carl

[K5UJ]

Occasionally Wayne and 73 got into trouble.  One time, it must have been back in the early '70s, 73 published an article on how to build a "blue box," the thing long distance hackers, known as Fone Freaks in they day, used to make free long distance calls.  The Phone Company (remember back when there was THE one and only Phone Company?) unleashed so many AT&T lawyers on Wayne and 73 that they had to round up every single issue of 73 that had the article in it and destroy all of them.  The alternative would have been to have fought it, and spend every thin dime he had on legal fees.  I imagine Wayne decided 73 and his financial situation were more important than one article on a blue box.  I wonder if that issue is among the ones on-line.  Unfortunately I have no idea of the year and month.

[KB2WIG]

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[Pete, WA2CWA]

Occasionally Wayne and 73 got into trouble.  One time, it must have been back in the early '70s, 73 published an article on how to build a "blue box," the thing long distance hackers, known as Fone Freaks in they day, used to make free long distance calls.  The Phone Company (remember back when there was THE one and only Phone Company?) unleashed so many AT&T lawyers on Wayne and 73 that they had to round up every single issue of 73 that had the article in it and destroy all of them.  The alternative would have been to have fought it, and spend every thin dime he had on legal fees.  I imagine Wayne decided 73 and his financial situation were more important than one article on a blue box.  I wonder if that issue is among the ones on-line.  Unfortunately I have no idea of the year and month.

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