"Michael Black" wrote in message
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Dick (LeadWinger) writes:
The ham magazine was 73. Would you believe that back in the 60's you
could get a life membership to 73 for $73? Would have been a good
deal until the magazine went belly up last year.

Dick - W6CCD

It was far better than that. The original price for life subscription to
73 was $37 US, chosen because it was a transposal of the two digits in
the magazine's name. Bill Turner who inhabits some of the newsgroups
and wrote many an article for the magazine, bought a life subscription
at that level, and says that yes indeed he did get it for life, with
the last issue being the last issue the magazine published.

I don't know how much the life subscription price varied over the years.
I do remember much being said about a $73 subscription in 1973.

Michael VE2BVW

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 13:48:39 -0500, "Edward A. Feustel"
wrote:

I believe that the founder of CQ was Wayne Green (W2NSD) who then went
on to
found Byte magazine and
another ham magazine.
Ed, N5EI


Though they lived up to their end of the contract until they shut their
doors, I have to wonder if that wasn't part of their problem? Can you
imagine the trade off in costs as all went up, not counting postage? They
had to have lost some money. I'm not suggesting that was "all" of their
problem, but it had to take a bit of a bite. Sounds almost ludicrous. I
can't recall if the ARRL's "lifetime" operates the same. Been a while since
I've looked at one. But aside from other issues, maybe that is one of their
problems too. CL