We need a new channel

It was an agreed to back in the sixties as part of organizing cb.

 

Yea getting tired of the drowning every one out. They are like the spam of cb!

 

I was born in 1965 so I guess I missed that.

 

S9 magazines are on line, I think at American radio history site. Pretty good reading if you wants an accurate history of why things are the way they are. Start at 1961 and go to 1965.

 

When you bring up S9 Magazine, I think of Tom Knietel.

08/25/2008

Tom Kneitel, W4XAA, better known to hams by his previous call sign K2AES, died August 22 at age 75. He lived in DeLand, Florida, where he and his wife Judy had moved in 2004.

At the time of his death, he was editor emeritus of Popular Communications. Aside from serving as editor of Popular Communications, he had written for CB Horizons, S9 and Popular Electronics, and was the author of a number of radio hobbyist books on such subjects as scanning, CB radio and building electronics projects.

Dick Ross, K2MGA, publisher of CQ Magazine, who had worked with Kneitel on a number of publishing projects since 1961, told the ARRL he was "one of the most creative people I've known in my life….He came up with the name S9 and created the whole editorial package." Ross added: "His contributions were enormous. He kind of defined the personal communications hobby -- he brought together the whole range of disparate subcultures if you will -- it's all hobby radio. He was the one who brought them together. He saw the fun in the whole thing. He had a way of giving you a chuckle -- he had an enormous sense of humor. He was a terrific, terrific person."

Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1933, Kneitel first started writing about the radio hobby in the 1950s, and continued writing until recently. He was a 2004 inductee into the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame. He was the grandson of cartoon pioneer Max Fleischer, whose studio created the Popeye and Betty Boop cartoons.

Kneitel was predeceased by a son. Survivors include his wife, two sons, four daughters, a sister and 10 grandchildren. A private memorial service is planned. -- some information from OrlandoSentinel.com

 

Note: S9 Magazine was a little before my time. However, all through the 80's and early 90's I was a BIG Popular Communications fan.

RIP Tom.

73,
Russ

 

Peer pressure needs to be placed on the squatters to GTF off 19. Seems to also be a lot of preachers on 19 lately. More than usual. The message is generally good but needs to be delivered on another channel.

 

Yes I'm tired of hearing "MUD DUCK RADIO" literally everywhere I go. If I ever found out where he was I'd smash his radio

 

Don't forget his big Ameritron amp