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Originally Posted by Jeffhs
While reading the thread "'63 Philco" in this forum, I happened to remember something I had read in the old Electronics Illustrated magazine, I think it was late '60s-early '70s. This magazine had a column written by Tom Kneitel, K2AES--a smart-aleck question-and-answer man if I ever saw one, and I read his column in EI for years. Sometimes he'd give a straight answer to readers' questions; however, much of the time he answered questions with remarks he thought were funny, but seldom addressed the issue at hand.
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Most of you know I edited electronics hobby magazines in the seventies. Letters-to-the-Editor columns were very popular and religiously read by high percentage of subscribers; so much so that their content was not always left to the vagaries of actual letters to the Editor! They were professionally written, with only the occasional reader's letter making it to the magazine page unscathed. Guys like Kneitel and Friedman (bet u never heard of him) were some of the wordsmiths involved in your Letters-to-the-Editor reading pleasure.
Pete