Wayne Green
Wayne Sanger Green II (September 3, 1922 – September 13, 2013) was an American publisher, writer, and consultant. Green was editor of "CQ" magazine before he went on to found "73", "80 Micro", "Byte", "CD Review", "Cold Fusion", "Kilobaud Microcomputing", "RUN", "InCider", and "Pico", as well as publishing books and running Instant Software. Biography. In his editorial in the inaugural issue of "80 Microcomputing" he said, "The first magazine I published was in 1952 about amateur radio Teletype. Later I became editor of "CQ", a ham radio magazine. I started my own magazine for hams in 1960, that was  73 magazine. "73" is now the world's largest ham publication, with subscribers in over 200 countries. When MITS put the first microcomputer kit on the market in 1975 I organized and did most of the work to get "Byte" magazine started. When I felt there was a need for a magazine aimed at beginners in computing, I started "Kilobaud Microcomputing" in January 1977." In the early 1980s, he assisted in the creation of the Brazilian microcomputing magazine, "" . He sold five of his magazines to CW Communications in 1983, and his publishing company Wayne Green, Inc. subsequently merged with them . Licensed by the Federal Communications Commission in the Amateur Radio Service with the callsign W2NSD, he was involved in a number of controversies and disputes in the Ham Radio world, notably with the ARRL and CQ magazines. Such controversies also occurred in the computer world; an advertisement for "80 Micro" began "You may love Wayne Green ... you may hate him ... but you have to admit he has vision". It promised that the magazine would "tell you the truth" because "Wayne Green has never been one to mince words", adding "of course, 80 Microcomputing has the editorial fireworks from Wayne that  the industry has come to expect". In his editorial in the inaugural issue of "80 Microcomputing" he said, "My outspokenness aggravates a lot of people, but...if I don't kick ass...I don't get results." He used the backronym "Never Say Die" for the NSD in his amateur callsign. he lived in his wife's farmhouse in Hancock, New Hampshire and maintained a website with content from his on-line bookstore.