Jack Najork (W5FG) wrote what may have been the most brilliant fictional
article ever to appear in QST: "The Templeton Case," January 1963. It's
almost worth buying an ARRL membership for access to it on line.
That was in the days when QST would publish an article that presumed that
its readers were intelligent enough to separate fact from fiction. Those
days are gone...
The only article I ever submitted to QST that was not published was fiction
(a pretty good record). It was in the early 1990s and was rejected by one of
the powers that be for being "too true." Chod Harris published it in The DX
Magazine. Chod had a sense of humor.
Jim Cain, K1TN
At the K1TN Superstation
Pomona, NJ
>
> Interestingly, Jack Najork had a letter to the editor published in the
> January 1941 QST lamenting that his active-duty service in the Navy
> would prevent him from operating in the next Sweepstakes, a contest
> that he had previously enjoyed. If you are an ARRL member, you can read
> the letter online in the QST archive:
>
> http://p1k.arrl.org/cgi-bin/topdf.cgi?id=23186&pub=qst
>
> --
> Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
> kenharker@kenharker.com
> http://www.kenharker.com/
>
I just >>KNEW<< there was a reason I liked this old Gent. A Navy Radioman,
a battleship Sailor, and a SweepStakes guy to boot!
Petition away, old Sparky. You've earned the right, and more.
73, de Hans, K0HB
Master Chief Radioman, US Navy
http://k0hb.spaces.live.com/
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