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Ron,

speaking of Radio age....when I was young I read the Soviet radio amateur magazine called simply "Radio". Great magazine, you could even say I learned my todays trade from it. Serious circuitry designer, serious discussions, and all kinds of stuff, from ham to computers to Hi-Fi audio, automation, tape-recording, phono...you name it - it was there.
Yes it was run by Soviet Government and the main purpose was getting young people to get patriotic as well as tech-savvy, but who cares - I got from it what I needed. Starting from 1980 I started subscribing to it, and did so up 'till the very day I left, 1989.
One issue had a photo of my Morse code coach, Valentina Isakova, the world champion in the sport, with all her medals....

A week ago rummaging through the eBay I found a guy who sells bound year-by-year full subscriptions of this magazine, and this was the warmest feeling, as he shows the fropnt page and one-two pages from inside, and I realized I remember those photos on those pages, and the name of some article, and the schematics....as if I got back to over 30 years back.
I had a really bad itch to buy that, but then you could download every issue for free on demand today.

And I did not find that magazine with my coach's photo on the fron page....do not remember the year.

Gosh.....oh, well.