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Cartoons from LENS,
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Ray Scarborough G3UCY drew many cartoons for inclusion in LENS as well as a few for the Newsletter of the VHF/UHF Group that was organised in Leicester in the 1970s.
Some of these are illustrated on a dedicated page on the LRG website. I have discovered some others in my rat's nest of a filing system and I include them here. If you would like to use any of these cartoons, please remember to credit Ray G3UCY as the source. Ray worked many levels of detail and comment into his cartoons... which often featured a tall thin man and a short fat chap, these were 'the long and the short', many of the individuals portrayed were caracatures of actual local amateurs and the placement of these within the context of the cartoon was sometimes a little mischievous.
I was the first LRS member (yes I was a member! between 1956 and 1966) ever to meet Ray... It was about 1964 at an NFD site at Skeffington and I re-met him later on 70 centimetres, just after I was licensed, where we had many simplex QSOs whilst I was mobile, travelling to and from work.
| "Can't understand why he says you're fully quieting and I'm only scratchy in..." |
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| "It's those damn palefaces again, QRM'ing the band with their QRO rig" |
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Ray and I had a number of things in common, I had a couple of printing businesses and Ray did some work that would these days be described as 'graphic arts'. There is a cartoon that he drew that occurs on the Lrg website...
| "Real dyed-in-the-wool c.w. man, old Fred" |
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The entry is accompanied by an editor's note...
"This picture also appeared in the Fist magazine, Keynote. (For the preservation of Morse code). The Dots and dashes above the tent is the letter 'z'. In the final publication, ZZzzzz were substituted for the dots and dashes. I wonder who Fred was? "
I can throw a little light on it, I took the photo that inspired Ray to draw that particular cartoon. The event was a HF NFD in the middle to late 1960s... A chap grabbed an hour or so's sleep after a long operating session, he was not actually inside the tent, but on a stretcher outside of it.
Although there was a guy named Fred in LRS at that time, the name of the chap concerned was not Fred (I have forgotten what it actually was), but he gained the nickname 'kipper' as a result. The two photos below were taken within about a minute of each other.
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The quality is poor as the negative stock was very high speed stuff that had poor definition.
He was solidly asleep, the only audible sound being that of received morse or the rattle of an up & downer key, being pounded by Phil G3MCP... Shown in the other photo doing so.
The name of log keeper in the photo, also escapes me, he had hair that was slightly lighter than shows up in the picture, he had a habit of dressing in clothes that were of beige or fawn colour and I think he sometimes wore a 'safari suit'. He used to do morse classes in the back room at the LRS 'old hall farm' about 1957 or 1958, I was one of his pupils. I think he may have lived in Rhodesia or another African country as a child.
The pictures were taken very early on a Sunday morning I guess about 6 AM, place I think was Skeffington.
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