[Boatanchors] Hashafisti Scratchi

[Garey Barrell]

Richard -

OK...  I cheated, I just looked in the Table of Contents.  The earliest I have in the 30's is 
Jan 1935 and Scratchi is in there.  I checked several other years and it is there as well, near 
the back of the magazine.  Not listed in the TOC though. It is NOT in the single 1930 issue I 
have, or any earlier ones.

73, Garey - K4OAH
Glen Allen, VA

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Richard Knoppow wrote:
> Curious, Larry WA9VRH posted just a while ago that he has November 1936 and March 1937 issues 
> and Scratchi is in both.  I wonder about this especially since if George Loyd Jr. wrote them 
> he would have been nineteen at the time.  He is also credited with writing the "Lighthouse 
> Larry" pieces for General Electric so writing may have been a profession he pursued.  I found 
> one patent issued to him.  Its for an improvement on a vacuum capacitor and is assigned to 
> GE.  The application date is 1944 so he was evidently working for GE during war time.  I tried 
> to find out more about him but nearly all is the same obit referenced to this list which was 
> evidently copied to a number of publications.  If he did in fact originate Scratchi he wrote 
> it on and off for over fifty years.
>
>
> On 3/7/2015 6:30 PM, Garey Barrell wrote:
>> Richard -
>>
>> It looks like Scratchi was only 1939 in Radio.  I just checked a few issues each year before 
>> and after and didn't see it until CQ picked it up in 1947.
>>
>> 73, Garey - K4OAH
>> Glen Allen, VA
>>
>> Drake 2-B, 2-C/2-NT, 4-A, 4-B, C-Line
>> and TR-4/C Service Supplement CDs
>> <www.k4oah.com>
>>
>> Richard Knoppow wrote:
>>> The article says he wrote the Scratchi pieces beginning in 1947 but they began much 
>>> earlier.   I think 1947 is the date "Radio" magazine became "CQ".   Even the cut drawing of 
>>> "Scratchi" is the same.   Floyd would have been in his early twenties when Scratchi began.  
>>> I think I have some war-time issues of "Radio", I will see if I can find them and if 
>>> "Scratchi" was discontinued during our war with Japan.
>>>
>>> On 3/6/2015 8:13 PM, KA9EGW wrote:
>>>> Was penned by wa4dga
>>>> www.eham.net/articles/20543
>>>> 73, Brian KA9EGW
>>>>