KC4UAI writes:

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?



I remember The Invisible Antenna article by the Oberlin College
Prof. [QST] and 73's "How to turn your [WW2] Command Set into a 5 Band
250 Watt SSB Tranceiver" article. The instructions were easy to follow:

a) First, remove all components except for the fuseholder in the
upper right hand corner.

cont. on page 98


Of course, the magazine had 96 pages total...

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