{"id":11593,"date":"2014-12-10T12:16:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T12:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=11593"},"modified":"2014-12-12T16:28:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:28:43","slug":"dr-george-brown-mw5acn-9-december-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/silent-keys\/2014\/12\/10\/dr-george-brown-mw5acn-9-december-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr George Brown, MW5ACN, 9 December 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr George Brown, MW5ACN (SK), seen here in 1994<\/p><\/div>\n

Dr George Brown, MW5ACN\/G1VCY, passed away peacefully on the morning of 9 December 2014. An enthusiastic amateur for many years, he served the RSGB in a number of ways including as Technical Editor of RadCom<\/em> from 2000-2006.<\/p>\n

Born in 1941 (according to his QRZ.com page), he was originally\u00a0from near Bishop Auckland and he maintained his soft Durham accent even after many years of living “down South”.<\/p>\n

He was first\u00a0licensed as G1VCY but became M5ACN with the introduction of the ‘Class A\/B’ 5WPM Morse licence.<\/p>\n

He was the author or editor of a number of books, including Amateur Radio Essentials<\/em>, Radio and Electronics Cookbook<\/em> and Practical Projects<\/em>.<\/p>\n

A quiet, reserved, even shy personality, yet despite this a gifted teacher with the ability to put across complex issues in a way that non-technical people could understand.<\/p>\n

He held Foundation licence classes at RSGB HQ in Potters Bar and had a 100% success rate.<\/p>\n

George had a rare combination of talents: a thorough understanding of all technical aspects of amateur radio combined with a first-class command of the English language. He had tremendous attention to detail: no split infinitive or incorrect use of tenses would slip past George’s editorial blue pen! He was also a superb proof-reader and this combination of talents meant the job of RadCom<\/em> Technical Editor could almost have been written for him.<\/p>\n

\"George<\/a>

George posing for a photo that was used in various pieces of RSGB publicity material<\/p><\/div>\n

As well as looking after the technical columns (including Pat Hawker’s ‘Technical Topics”) and stand-alone technical articles in RadCom<\/em>, George also compiled the club news in both RadCom<\/em> and the weekly GB2RS news broadcasts. This meant he was well known to many members, who would often phone in last-minute changes to their club meetings right up to, and sometimes well beyond, the official publication deadline. George would do his utmost to see that these last-minute changes made it to press.<\/p>\n

When he retired as RadCom Technical Editor in 2006 he bought himself a new top-of-the-line Yaesu FTdx9000 transceiver as his retirement present, with the intention of becoming more active on the HF bands.<\/p>\n

George and his wife moved to Knighton in Powys soon after his retirement, where he became MW5ACN. Sadly, his wife developed a serious illness shortly after their move and George became a full-time carer until she passed away.<\/p>\n

George was a kind, thoughtful man, a true gentleman in the old-fashioned sense of the word.<\/p>\n

Tribute by Steve Telenius-Lowe,\u00a0PJ4DX
\nand from other sources<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr George Brown, MW5ACN\/G1VCY, passed away peacefully on the morning of 9 December 2014. An enthusiastic amateur for many years, he served the RSGB in a number of ways including as Technical Editor of RadCom from 2000-2006. Born in 1941 (according to his QRZ.com page), he was originally\u00a0from near Bishop Auckland and he maintained his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silent-keys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593","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\/20018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}