tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590176649168185428.post109246742570154867..comments2024-03-28T18:51:21.655-04:00Comments on SolderSmoke Daily News: Dr. Rufus Turner, W3LF. Homebrew Hero and Radio PioneerBill Mearahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07662500663603350847noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590176649168185428.post-85542309737819504262016-02-21T11:48:13.344-05:002016-02-21T11:48:13.344-05:00Hi Bill,
I still have Rufus Turner's "El...Hi Bill,<br /><br />I still have Rufus Turner's "Electronic Hobbyists' Handbook" (Gernsback Library No. 69) that I bought in 1961. Still a lot of fun to browse through. Turner has a knack for explaining difficult subjects in plain language. --Jerry AA6KI<br />Jerry Palssonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11364449875837978681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590176649168185428.post-44430129479128124112016-02-21T02:26:44.229-05:002016-02-21T02:26:44.229-05:00Well it was right there on the lower right the oth...Well it was right there on the lower right the other day.<br /><br />This isn't news because it's getting travel. I learned about it at least a year ago, because I looked.<br /><br />One might as well ask about all the prolific writers of the old days. Sam Harris wrote about the first practical parametric amplifier in 'CQ', but somewhere recently I gathered his roe t Arecibo was much greater than we knew at the time.<br /><br />Who was Fred Brown, W6HPH I think, who wrote a lot about VHF?<br /><br />Who was Hank Cross W1OOP, with a big interest in receivers, especially VHF?<br /><br />Who was John J. Schultz, W2EEY/1, who seemed to have an article every month in CQ in the sixties, mostly tutorials?<br /><br />Who was Howard Pyle, who wrote a lot, including "Climbing The Novice Ladder" in "73" in the sixties, and I think was on the masthead of "Ham Radio"?<br /><br />Who was James Ashe, W2DXH, who showed some very professionally put together projects?<br /><br />Hank Olson, W6GXN was prolific too.<br /><br />That doesn't even cover the prolific writers for the hobby electronic magazines, which were often more construction articles.<br /><br />We often knew more about ARRL staff writers.<br /><br />John T. Frye, who wrote the Carl & Jerry stories was a paraplegic, Jeff Duntemann has dug into his story.<br /><br />Don Lancaster has told his story on his website.<br /><br />I have bumped into some familiar names on Usenet over the past 20 years, but I didn't ask them about their writing days.<br /><br />Jim Kyle has a website where he tells some of his story, lots of writing in the sixties, including the infamous article about the "Sweet Sixteen" speaker.<br /><br />These people, and so many others that I didn't name, were important because they filled the magazines with tutorial and construction articles on a more regular basis than casual.<br /><br />MichaelMichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13699701261288661640noreply@blogger.com