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Michael (Mick) Senior, G4EFO – 27 December 2023

| January 4, 2024
Michael (Mick) Senior, G4EFO – 27 December 2023

It is with much sadness that I have to report the sudden passing of Mick Senior G4EFO on Wednesday 27th December 2023 aged 73 (just one day before his 74th birthday). Mick was a West Sussex fire-fighter who retired early from the service, but kept himself busy with his small business installing domestic and professional […]

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Robin James Melton, G0OJP – 27 October 2023

| November 27, 2023

Born in Docking, Norfolk, in 1938, Dad was always keen on radio communication and had an amazing sense of humour right until the very end of his life. Robin moved all over North Norfolk as a child including Docking, Ringstead, Sedgeford, Fring and Holme. After two years of National Service in the RAF, he started […]

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Jimmy Sneddon, MW0EQL – September 2023

| October 30, 2023

Jimmy sadly passed away in late September 2023. He was a member of the Regional Council for many years and also a Director of the Society in 2011.

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Geoff Voller, G3JUL – 2022

| October 10, 2023
Geoff Voller, G3JUL – 2022

Geoff Voller – G3JUL 1929 – 2022 Geoff’s earliest memories were from when he was three years old. Unfortunately, they were not happy ones as he caught pneumonia and was sent to an isolation ward in Broadstairs, Kent, there being no cure at that time. Thankfully he survived although he would have recurring problems with […]

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Terence Green, G3GLL – 7 October 2023

| October 10, 2023

Founder member of Essex CW ARC fades away Terence Green, G3GLL, aged 92 and a founder member of Essex CW Amateur Radio Club, faded away peacefully on 7 October 2023. An ex-Merchant Navy Radio Officer, Terence had been an avid CW operator all his life participating in NFD, AFS and many other contests. “CW operators […]

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Paul Holman, 2E0PKH – 26 June 2023

| July 24, 2023
Paul Holman, 2E0PKH – 26 June 2023

Paul became interested in electronics and radios as a youngster when his father made him a crystal radio set, but living in Leigh-on-Sea in the 1960s, all it would pick up was the Pirate Radio stations in the Thames Estuary.  Later, his father gave him an old MW/SW/LW valve radio with a long wire antenna […]

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