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This account is published mainly from the personal mail of Jack Bennett G3PVG
(with his permission). I was not an lrg committee member myself at this early time.
During one of the committee meetings in the very early days, the committee
members were each asked to go away and come up with a design for a letterhead for the
group. At the following meeting only two designs were submitted. One by myself (Jack
Bennett) and the other by Stewart Bradshaw G8GMB. After much discussion, it was decided
that they would use my letterhead design and combine it with Stewart's Logo design.
The Logo reflected the four folded dipole collinear antenna arrangement, with
each of the dipoles arranged to favour a different direction with the mast acting as a
reflector. The spots within the lobes represent the towns covered in the original
configuration. These were, starting with the lobe centred at approximately 22 degrees,
Nottingham. The lobe at approximately 70 degrees, Loughborough and Leicester respectively. The lobe at approximately 112 degrees,
Hinckley, and finally the lobe at approximately 290 degrees represents coverage in the
Derby direction.
Whilst the antennas have been changed or modified over the years and LE has been
joined by other 'boxes' the original logo design has continued to be used up to the present
day.
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