Sorry to say Les Passed away from an infection complication and was suffering from cancer. A long time Alaskan and was living in Tuscon AZ.
I had the great pleasure to meet Les before he moved to KL7-land when he was doing broadcast work in Ocean City, Maryland for WBOC-FM. He really got a kick out of operating CW in what then was the Novice portion of 40M - and explained how I could 'zero-beat' the Intl Broadcast carriers - and still have a nice CW QSO. Sorry to learn of our hobbys loss.