Not sure why you'd expect the two groups to be mutually exclusive?

Last time I checked, Art was a pretty active Ham....
At least some of what Wayne had to say had some merit, and if he only
got a couple of people to think about what they could do to change the
"poor conditions" they or their schools were in, then he probably did
pretty good, too...

I notice many of his editorials had the same message: "Get off your butt
and do something, and stop whining about how the world has done you
wrong." Though he didn't always say it outright, there was always an
undercurrent of that sort in the editorials I read. Even if some of
what he said was unsubstantiated, if it made you think, it wouldn't
surprise me if that was the intent.

Having spent more than a little time listening to people that present
their view as the gospel truth, and filtering it for my particular
reality, I found his approach a bit refreshing at times, though he did
tend to browbeat the educational system...

Remember, you can always use the Politician's sources of "true facts,
real and made up" if you don't like what you hear....

[grin]

--Rick


Dragon Doctor wrote:

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 16:57:29 GMT, KI7G wrote:

I'm glad to see that most Hams saw
through his unsubstantiated drivel.

He probably sold more magazines to the "Art Bell" crowd than to
ham ops.

Ronny Julian wrote:
Did he ever quit spouting all the personal politics? I think he would have
done better in talk radio.

One has to admit that Wayne did take his editorial liberties;
I always enjoyed reading his rantings. However he was a real
visionary...FM, home computing, etc. He loved taking jabs
at the establishment like Ma Bell, IRS, and ARRL.

I'm sorry to see 73 go, but Wayne's 81 years old and deserves
a retirement from lifelong editing/publishing.

Don K6LTS
48 years of CW. Yeeeeehhaaaaaa!

In article ,
says...
73 magazine gone ????
IT'S ABOUT TIME.

Read that rag once, way back when I was a tech no coder, and that was
enough for me.

At one time it was a pretty good magazine. But as Wayne grew crankier
with age, it degenerated rapidly. I suspect if he had passed the reins
over to someone with less of an axe to grind, it might have survived.

--

-- //Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
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