This ad is from the December 1931 issue of QST. This copy has a LOT of mileage on it. In 1993 or 1994, David Cowhig (now WA1LBP) was living in Okinawa Japan and was operating as 7J6CBQ. I was living in the Dominican Republic and operating as N2CQR/HI8. We were both contributing to a 73 magazine column (as “Hambassadors”!) and we were both in the Foreign Service. I wrote to David — he wrote back, sending me some old QSTs, including the one from which the above ad is taken.
This ad shows that many of the homebrew/troubleshooting woes that we face today are very old. And that having access to good technical books is very important when you are trying to overcome these difficulties.
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