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Found in what is the first issue of Electronics Illustrated magazine that I have bought are these Amateur radio related comics entitled, "Over and Out." The cartoonist's signature is simply "Rodrigues," which according to a Google search might be Charles Rodrigues (who also contributed to other tech magazines as well as to National Lampoon). I have to admit to needing to look up the "Yanqui aggressors" thing on the one comic, and then it made sense: Yanqui= Yankee. The last comic with the parrot is pretty funny; it's sort of the Ham radio equivalent to an auto-repeat telephone dialer like what you would use to call into a radio show during a listener contest. 

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"CQ, CQ, CQ, CQ, CQ, CQ 20 meters; CQ,CQ,CQ, CQ 20; CQ, CQ, CQ, CQ, CQ 20 meters; CQ, CQ, CQ, CQ 20: CQ 20; CQ 20 meters ... "

 

 

Posted July 29, 2020


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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