On 12/25/2015 1:49 PM, Phil Kane wrote:
On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 12:06:05 EST,
(KB6NU via
rec.radio.amateur.moderated Admin) wrote:
Often, he [Wayne Green, W2NSD] would take the ARRL to task,
criticizing what he thought to be some lunk-headed policy or another.
He was one of the, if not THE, harshest critic of the League, but he
was always a paid-up member of the League, giving him standing to do
that. Many times he was right!
Yep, Wayne was usually right about ham radio issues. I first started
reading 73 when the League was pushing Incentive Licensing in the 1960s.
Wayne said that it would be bad, and it was indeed disastrous -- it did
help the League sell license manuals, but a slew of ham equipment
vendors tanked within three years. He also pushed transistors when the
League was still pushing tubes.
He was a total crackpot on some other issues, and grew worse with age.
But he was never dull.
I suspect that if he were still around and running 73, he might be
looking for articles on software-defined radio, weak signal DSP, and
other ways to do actual hammy things using current component technology.