I remember radio digest.  I know he often commented he didn't select 
much from q s t as it was available elsewhere.  As I recall, and I don't 
remember how fr back, but q s t as well as foreign affairs and others 
came on those thin flexible records.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.


On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Lou Kolb wrote:

> I was wondering the same thing, Mike. I do recall that Science for the Blind
> had a compilation magazine called radio digest, that was done by a guy near
> buffalo whose name I think was Henry Kuhn, W2IRU. He would choose articles
> from the major ham magazines, QsT, 73 and CQ and read them onto a 5-inch
> reel that was sent out most months. I do think the QsT recordings were done
> by the library of congress back then. SFB had several neat recorded mags,
> though, like popular science and consumer reports. Lou WA3MIX
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> From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: QST on Reel to Reel Tape
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>
>> I began reading QST with the January, 1967 issue. It was on reel to
>> reel tape until sometime in the mid 70s.
>>
>> I may be wrong, but I believe that when I began reading it, the tapes
>> were distributed by Science for the Blind, not by NLS.
>>
>> --
>> Mike Duke, K5XU
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