Don Scott is the main mover behind getting Monitor onto the World Wide Web, and is currently working on all the original Monitors, preparing them for uploading onto the Monitor web site, as close as possible to just as they originally appeared as printed magazines.

Don was involved with Monitor from the early days; an electronics engineer by trade, he joined the team in 1972 as Technical Adviser and wrote any articles Buster required to explain the science behind the sound. His own experience of offshore radio was as relief engineer on board Radio Atlantis off the Belgian coast in 1974 - although when he first went aboard he didn't realise that he was going to be the only engineer on the ship to keep the unfamiliar and very temperamental transmitter on the air for a week!

When a commercial station for the Southend-on-Sea and Chelmsford area, Essex Radio, was licenced in 1981 Don was involved from the beginning, being one of the engineers to build the brand new station from scratch. Being then on the doorstep, his involvement with Monitor became greater than ever. He bought a computer, a BBC-B, and set it up at Buster's home; this revolutionised the magazine production, as it meant Buster didn't have to do all of the typing himself any more. A whole team of people with compatible computers could do the typing, send it along on cassette tape or the big, old format, five-and-a-quarter-inch floppy discs, and Buster had only to check and correct it.

By the time Don retired in 2000, he was Chief Engineer of the Essex Radio Group, in charge of seven stations spread over four counties.

He now lives in Wales.

Don's partner, Jeanne, also had the privilege of knowing Buster and is keen to assist with the website project. A retired journalist, Jeanne is webmaster to several (very small) businesses and is in overall charge of the Monitor website.

Fritz Fernie has a lot in common with Buster, although they never met. Both were disabled from an early age, causing them to miss out on both schooling and social contact, and found radio to be their window on the world. Now Fritzie is hoping to put his talents for graphic arts to some use in realising Buster's dream of having Monitor available to all on the Internet.

Penelope Page joined the Monitor team in 1973, and has had a hand in every issue of Monitor from number four onwards. Although her health is not good, Penny is still involved in Monitor and is very Enthusiastic about the "monitor. org.uk" project.

Robert Stanley Clancy has been a friend of Monitor for some years and met "BUSTER" when he was on holiday in the Essex area in March1980, he was at "BUSTERS" home when the "OLD LADY OF RADIO" MV Mi Amigo sank on 19th March 1980. Robert was also in the Essex area on holiday when the MV Ross Revenge was raided by the British and Dutch Governments on 19th August 1989. He’s not a happy bunny as every time he’s been around Essex on holiday some thing happens to his beloved radio station! (E.g. ship sinks or raided). Robert lives in the Bailiwick of Guernsey which is in the Channel Islands, Robert has got involved with Monitor on the web site side since having a major operation for the removal of his Gall Bladder and a very large stone!. Robert has dedicated his very own web site at http://www.guernsey.net/~deejayclancy to the memory of "BUSTER" and his life time work on his magazine Monitor.

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