Many of my older fellow radio amateurs will disagree, but Wayne Green is truly missed these days. Reading his editorials from 73 Amateur Radio Today decades later show that he had an insight into events and people that rankled many, particularly during his first run of owning 73 until his magazine company was lost in his divorce settlement. Those hams are still embittered to this day which shows just how effective his writing was in trying to get his readers to use their critical thinking skills and thus how many hated the idea that they do so.
I don't know if the readers of Byte or 80 Micro had similar reactions to Wayne's editorials. Computer hobbyists and radio amateurs have two different levels of passion. At the time (1980) amateur radio had over seven decades of tradition behind it while personal computing was less than a decade old. Wayne saw that the landscape of amateur radio was changing dramatically in the early '70s, something many of his contemporaries wished to deny. He advocated for FCC rules changes, many of which came too little too late, and changes to ARRL (American Radio Relay League--the US national amateur radio operators association) that to this day have been ignored. In retrospect his perspectives have mostly been proven correct, at least in regard to those two entities and the amateur radio hobby as a whole.
Wayne enjoyed writing and enjoyed learning something new and sharing that with others while trying to make a living at it. The titles of magazines that he started are a testament to that drive.
I don't know if the readers of Byte or 80 Micro had similar reactions to Wayne's editorials. Computer hobbyists and radio amateurs have two different levels of passion. At the time (1980) amateur radio had over seven decades of tradition behind it while personal computing was less than a decade old. Wayne saw that the landscape of amateur radio was changing dramatically in the early '70s, something many of his contemporaries wished to deny. He advocated for FCC rules changes, many of which came too little too late, and changes to ARRL (American Radio Relay League--the US national amateur radio operators association) that to this day have been ignored. In retrospect his perspectives have mostly been proven correct, at least in regard to those two entities and the amateur radio hobby as a whole.
Wayne enjoyed writing and enjoyed learning something new and sharing that with others while trying to make a living at it. The titles of magazines that he started are a testament to that drive.