On Apr 6, 12:52 pm, ) (Dan, W2IQD) wrote:
wrote:
On Apr 5, 6:34�pm, Phil Kane wrote
:
It would be the ultimate joke on us if someone
really was going to publish the "collected works".
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Well, they're all on the website! Not limited to members-only, either.

The article to read, though, is the one about the QS-59 receiver. Many
of the features described are common in today's rigs.

God, I remember reading that one and almost being taken in (I was about 13

at the time). Years later I went on to write some April spoofs for other
mags, but Larson E. was always my hero. I think Byron Goodman, W1DX, was
the author?

Ya know...

It's not just the ARRL that has fun with this kind of thing. CQ
Magazine has a few articles in it this month that are very much in the
4/1 spirit. A Cray based CW contest simulator which will run all the
CW contests off the air by 2011? I have to admit that it sounded good
until you started thinking though the details and reading the supposed
names of those involved. It would *almost* work?

There was another article that was a bit more overt, I just don't
remember exactly what it was about.

I have to admit though, the ARRL's "finding of the bad coax jumper and
that's why propagation is so bad" thing was a funny one. They had me
reading along wondering what all the homeland security stuff was going
to be and before I really got the joke I'd read almost half. Classic
way to write these things. You simply start to run off the rails of
reality a little at a time, throwing in enough truth to distract the
reader until as close to the end as possible. Truly good ones leave
just about everybody wondering if it's true or not.

-= bob =-