Over and Out - Amateur Radio Comics
September 1969 Electronics Illustrated Article

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. 

Over and Out - Amateur Radio Comics

"If I can't say anything good about a person, Vivian, I switch over to CW. "

"Okay on us being imperialist Yanqui aggressors, Carlos, and Oil the CIA invasion at the Bay of Pigs and on the tremendous sugar harvest you're having down there in Cuba ...'"

"And so, fellow hams, if I'm elected president of the ARRL ... "

"Yes, as a matter of fact when mommy brought me in for the exam the people at the FCC were a little surprised. "

"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

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