Silent Keys
Martyn Phillips, G3RFX / ZB2FX, 20 June 2014
It is with great sadness that I have to inform you that Martyn Phillips, G3RFX, ZB2FX, CDXC Committee member and CDXC Digest Editor for the past 11 years, passed away on the morning of 20 June 2014 after a short illness. Martyn was a GB2RS reader on HF & VHF from 14th May 1995 until […]
Ken Wheatley, G3BBR, 14 June 2014
I am sorry to have to pass on the sad news that Ken Wheatley, G3BBR passed away on 14 June 2014, just three days after his 90th birthday. He had been suffering from ill-health for some time and was being cared for in Acorn Court Nursing Home in Merstham. Ken had not been active on […]
Frank Wyer, G8RY, 27 April 2014
Frank Wyer, G8RY, has died at Littleport, near Ely in the county of Cambridge, UK at the age of 96 years. An intensely avid amateur radio enthusiast first licensed in 1937, at his death on 27 April, 2014 Frank was the longest living licensed amateur radio operator in UK. A leading light both pre and post […]
Peter Park, GM3PIP, 22 May 2014
Sad news as I learned that Peter Park, GM3PIP became silent key on the 22nd of May 2014. He had long associations with Aberdeen Amateur Radio Society, Buchan Amateur Club (Founder Member), and Banff and Buchan Club. He was RSGB area representative 1963-1974, Member of the Radio Society of Great Britain from 1959 to date. RSGB […]
Vernon Sandiford, G0KSH, 10 February 2014
Vernon Hugh Sandiford, G0KSH passed away on 10/2/14. Vernon was a member of Central Lancs Amateur Radio Club and Lancashire RAYNET. In the late 80’s Vernon and others from CLARC used to give Morse practice sessions on 2m and I was one of his pupils. He will be greatly missed. Tribute by Eddy Wane, G0OFY […]
Norman Whitehead, G4HL, 5 September 2013
Norman Whitehead, G4HL died age 96 on 5 September 2013. He was licensed in 1939 in Lancashire and soon found himself called up into the Navy as a Radio Officer. Initially based in Dover, he was in Coastal Forces on Armed Trawlers, specifically HMS Clythness (FY1596) and later HMS Elm (T105), a larger Tree Class MS […]
