The Old Man: Rotten Weather Relays

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 have been re-publishing a number of The Old Man’s observations.

Rotten Weather Relays (originally published in the April 1920 QST)

By The Old Man

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