Silent Keys
Smudge Lundegard, G3GJW, December 2021
Smudge Lundegard, G3GJW passed away peacefully at the age of 94 two weeks before Christmas 2021. He was a RSGB Council member for some time, including Executive Vice President in 1995. He was the first to start pushing for Council members to have a fixed term of office so that new blood would be appointed […]
Dave Hannan, G1JVF, November 2021
Dave Hannan, G1JVF, passed away in November 2021, following a mercifully short illness with cancer. He had been a radio amateur since the early 1980s, starting out on Citizen’s Band (known as ‘Mountainman’), before gaining his ham licence. Dave was a mechanical engineer and electrician, spending most of his working life at British Airways, as […]
Brian Shelton, G0MEE, 9th December 2021
Brian Shelton, G0MEE, passed away in hospital on the evening of Thursday 9th December 2021 after a short battle against Leukaemia. He was a very well respected man within the radio community and locally for all his efforts within the Lowestoft District & Pye ARC as Vice Chairman. Information supplied by Richard Evans, G0VCW
Bill Somerville, G4WJS, December 2021
From Joe Taylor, K1JT, we received the sad news that Bill Somerville, G4WJS, died suddenly and unexpectedly. He was only about 65 years old. Bill was the first to join Joe in in 2013 forming a core development group for WSJT-X. Joe: “Bill has been closely involved with WSJT-X and related software projects ever since. Our free, open-source software […]
David Stephens, G4CMQ, 1st November 2021
Our Dad David John Albert Stephens, G4CMQ passed away in Prince George House Care Home in Ipswich on 1st November 2021 after a short illness. He was a Radio Officer in the Merchant Navy in the 1950s and always a keen amateur radio enthusiast thereafter. Dad tapping away in morse code in the loft of […]
Jon Hague, GM3JIJ, November 2021
The RSGB has learned, with sadness, that Jon Hague, GM3JIJ, has passed away. Jon was a member of the Society for 72 years. Affectionately known as ‘Jon Island Jon’ to his many on-air friends, he delivered the GB2RS News from his QTH at Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis for 26 years, his big signals […]
