{"id":14387,"date":"2016-02-24T09:02:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T09:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=14387"},"modified":"2016-02-24T11:47:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T11:47:24","slug":"doug-macarthur-vk3um-21st-february-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/silent-keys\/2016\/02\/24\/doug-macarthur-vk3um-21st-february-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Doug MacArthur, VK3UM, 21st February 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14388\" style=\"width: 132px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14388\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-14388\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2016\/02\/VK3UM-SK-DSC_1334-122x150.jpg\" alt=\"Doug MacArthur, VK3UM (SK)\" width=\"122\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2016\/02\/VK3UM-SK-DSC_1334-122x150.jpg 122w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2016\/02\/VK3UM-SK-DSC_1334-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2016\/02\/VK3UM-SK-DSC_1334.jpg 489w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 122px) 100vw, 122px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug MacArthur, VK3UM (SK)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I am both sad and shocked to report that Doug passed away on the night of Monday the 21st of February 2016.\u00a0 Only on Sunday afternoon we had been working together on <em>EME Calc<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0Rex, VK7MO<\/p>\n<p>Quite simply, I would not have even tried EME without Doug and his software.\u00a0Many people &#8216;do&#8217; amateur radio, few change it &#8211; and Doug was one of the few.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; John, G4BAO<\/p>\n<p>Truly a giant amongst radio amateurs ( and more).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sam, G4DDK<\/p>\n<p>Doug was known to so many of us as the author of the <em>EME Planner<\/em> and <em>EME Calc<\/em> software, \u00a0that many of us use almost every day. He has left us with a great legacy \u2013 let\u2019s think of him every time we use his fantastic software!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Charlie, G3WDG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am both sad and shocked to report that Doug passed away on the night of Monday the 21st of February 2016.\u00a0 Only on Sunday afternoon we had been working together on EME Calc. &#8211;\u00a0Rex, VK7MO Quite simply, I would not have even tried EME without Doug and his software.\u00a0Many people &#8216;do&#8217; amateur radio, few [&hellip;]<\/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-14387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silent-keys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14387","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=14387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}