{"id":11588,"date":"2014-12-09T10:27:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T10:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=11588"},"modified":"2014-12-09T10:28:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T10:28:38","slug":"john-dunnington-g3lzq-sk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2014\/12\/09\/john-dunnington-g3lzq-sk\/","title":{"rendered":"John Dunnington, G3LZQ, SK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We regret to announce that John Dunnington, G3LZQ became a Silent Key on 8 December 2014, passing away peacefully in his sleep.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11586\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11586\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11586\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2014\/12\/John-G3LZQ-SK-at-GM-DX-Convention-Apr-2010-photo-by-Nigel-G3TXF-150x133.jpg\" alt=\"John Dunnington, G3LZQ (SK)\" width=\"150\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2014\/12\/John-G3LZQ-SK-at-GM-DX-Convention-Apr-2010-photo-by-Nigel-G3TXF-150x133.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2014\/12\/John-G3LZQ-SK-at-GM-DX-Convention-Apr-2010-photo-by-Nigel-G3TXF-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2014\/12\/John-G3LZQ-SK-at-GM-DX-Convention-Apr-2010-photo-by-Nigel-G3TXF-1024x908.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Dunnington, G3LZQ (SK), seen here in 2010 at the GM DX Convention. Photo courtesy G3TXF.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>John generously served amateur radio and the Society in many ways, including as DXpedition Fund Manager.<\/p>\n<p>He was Awards Manager from January 2003 until very recently, when poor health obliged him to step down from his roles.<\/p>\n<p>John&#8217;s work was recognised by the Board in 2012 with the presentation of the prestigious Founder&#8217;s Trophy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/silent-keys\/2014\/12\/09\/john-dunnington-g3lzq-8-december-2014\/\">An obituary<\/a> will be posted in the RSGB Silent Keys section and in the February edition of RadCom.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this difficult time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We regret to announce that John Dunnington, G3LZQ became a Silent Key on 8 December 2014, passing away peacefully in his sleep. John generously served amateur radio and the Society in many ways, including as DXpedition Fund Manager. He was Awards Manager from January 2003 until very recently, when poor health obliged him to step [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}