The Old Man: Rotten QRM

In the early years of the ARRL, co-founder and first President Hiram Percy Maxim occasionally penned editorials in QST magazine using the pseudonym “The Old Man.” These “rants” became legendary. As part of the ARRL Centennial celebration, we’ll be re-publishing a number of The Old Man’s observations throughout the year.

Rotten QRM (January 1917)

By “The Old Man.”

Say, fellows, here’s the old man …

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