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I see Wayne has thrown in the towel....

http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2003/10/10/6/?nc=1

Well that sucks, I use to read that when I was a kid! I wonder if someone will
pick it up?

Cant compete with the big boys
"Photodano1" wrote in message
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Well that sucks, I use to read that when I was a kid! I wonder if someone
will
pick it up?

If all of you cared so much why did you not buy the magazine?

Hell you cant even find the dam thing on the news stand.
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If all of you cared so much why did you not buy the magazine?

And in my area, even with a population of almost a million people within 3
counties, about 1000 of them hams and at least another 200 or more radio
enthusiasts along the line of SWL'ing and scanner interests, you can find
that one NOR CQ, QST or many other radio related mags!!!!

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Ryan, KC8PMX
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"JC" wrote in message
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Hell you cant even find the dam thing on the news stand.
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If all of you cared so much why did you not buy the magazine?

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

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If all of you cared so much why did you not buy the magazine?

The magazine was ok in so far as the articles, but the opinions sucked. He
is entitled to his own, but in a few cases I found him wrong. I likened him
to Rush Limbaugh. An Agenda. Human "Pied Pipers"! You tend to get the
"followers" who then buy into every word and they in return ruin it for
everyone by furthering the agenda. There ARE those who can't think for
themselves. I have no problem with people's opinions, provided they at least
entertain others and give them the same courtesy. But those who feel they
are all right and the rest are all wrong - that bothers me. Newspapers,
Magazines, Radios, TV... if you disagree with the point being made by the
person running the show, they shut you down. They give you very little if
any - time to express a view contrary to theirs. Therefore, what they say
goes, to hell with the rest. IF they are as good as they want to think they
are, to have ALL of the answers, WHY don't they propel themselves into the
arenas where the choices are made and contribute? NO.. They sit back and
judge all.. in an arena where a wall is up and they can shut down anyone who
disagrees. L.

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

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If all of you cared so much why did you not buy the magazine?

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.

Don Jennings KI0EO

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 08:12:09 -0400, "C.L.F."
wrote:

The magazine was ok in so far as the articles, but the opinions sucked.

I have to agree. The guy was just this side of a total nut case.

However, I found myself buying the magazine occasionally just to see
what nonsense he was spouting this month so I guess it wasn't
necessarily a bad business move. I'm glad to see that most Hams saw
through his unsubstantiated drivel.

Arden KI7G

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!