Wayne Green, W2NSD father of "73 Magainze" dead at 91

[MTS2000des]

for my younger years in ham radio, I loved 73 Magazine and Wayne Green's editorials. Whether you liked him or hated him, he was a pioneer in his field and always said "never say die". Well he has moved on, to join Ray Dolby who also passed on this week. Two great people I always admired, who will have legacies that will live on.

And that is what life is truly about. It is not what you have while you are here, it is what you leave behind, that will live on, grow and give to future generations. That is what a legacy is all about.

RIP W2NSD...we will "never say die" good sir.

Ham Radio Publications Pioneer, Visionary, Iconoclast Wayne Green, W2NSD, SK

 

[rfradioconsult]

Wayne's crystal ball made lots of predictions thru the years,some came true others were waay off but they were always interesting reading. Never Say Die will be remembered as a driving force in Ham Radio that shaped the hobby.

 

[kc0kp]

for my younger years in ham radio, I loved 73 Magazine and Wayne Green's editorials. Whether you liked him or hated him, he was a pioneer in his field and always said "never say die". Well he has moved on, to join Ray Dolby who also passed on this week. Two great people I always admired, who will have legacies that will live on.

And that is what life is truly about. It is not what you have while you are here, it is what you leave behind, that will live on, grow and give to future generations. That is what a legacy is all about.

RIP W2NSD...we will "never say die" good sir.

Ham Radio Publications Pioneer, Visionary, Iconoclast Wayne Green, W2NSD, SK

73 magazine was one of the things that got me back into amateur radio. I was a novice at 14 with nary a contact and was soon an expired novice. 73 and the FM conquest in the late 60s and early 70s got me back in with a technician license. 73s articles on converting commercial FM radios led me to run a GE T-power Prog line with two channels in it. I also subscribed to his Byte magazine drooling over Altair computer I so wanted. Both 73 and Byte were as thick as my home town phone book every month and were great reading.
I miss that era, I will miss Wayne. But life goes on until you yourself are a silent key. I do not miss tube type mobile equipment.
Craig

 

[mtindor]

I had subscribed to 73 Magazine since the late 80s until it was no longer published. I vaguely remember acquiring a large box of older issues at one point and spent considerable time going through them all. 73 Magazine was such good reading for those interested in building their own stuff. And whether I agreed with content in Wayne's editorials or not, I always found them entertaining.

As far as Wayne goes, he lived a long and apparently fullfilling life. What more can one ask for.

Mike

 

[K5MPH]

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I learned so much from Wayne ,he wll be missed.

 

[ShawnInPaso]

Best 73 Wayne, thanks for the great magazines.

 

[zz0468]

I loved 73 magazine back in the 80's and 90's with all those construction articles. Quite a few of them are still useful. His editorials were hilarious, even when I didn't agree with them, which was often. But he was a visionary, and had a lot of neat ideas. He did the hobby a tremendous amount of good.

BTW, the Internet Archive has the entire collection of 73 magazine on-line...

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