Hobnobbing with Harbaugh
March 1970 Popular Electronics

March 1970 Popular Electronics

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Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Popular Electronics, published October 1954 - April 1985. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.

Here is a little electronics hobbyist humor in the form of a comic series titled "Hobnobbing with Harbaugh," compliments of Dave Harbaugh in the March 1970 issue of Popular Electronics. Citizens Band radio and dirty hippies were the topic of the day in the 1970, so that's what you see in a couple of these comics. The marriage proposal comic can be considered as "amateur" in more ways than one! You don't need to be an amateur radio operator to appreciate these comic strips.

Hobnobbing with Harbaugh

by Dave Harbaugh

Hobnobbing with Harbaugh, November 1963 Popular Electronics - RF Cafe

DX conditions on 21 MHz are too good - RF Cafe

I'd like you to marry me later. Right now, DX conditions on 21 MHz are too good.

Madam! - RF Cafe

Madam!

Sorry, Nancy, I'm going steady withWPE6XPN - RF Cafe

Sorry, Nancy, I'm going steady with WPE6XPN.

No, but I had a CB license.- RF Cafe

No, but I had a CB license.

Posted September 13, 2021
(updated from original post on 1/28/2014)

These Technically−Themed Comics Appeared in Vintage Electronics Magazines. I personally scanned and posted every one from copies I own (and even colorized some).

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Hobnobbing with HarbaughMarch 1970 Popular Electronics

Hobnobbing with Harbaugh
March 1970 Popular Electronics