{"id":17249,"date":"2017-04-07T13:28:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T13:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=17249"},"modified":"2017-04-07T14:28:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T14:28:56","slug":"barry-thompson-g4lkf-g8jje-5th-march-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/silent-keys\/2017\/04\/07\/barry-thompson-g4lkf-g8jje-5th-march-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Thompson, G4LKF \/ G8JJE, 5th March 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is with regret that I inform you of the peaceful passing of my father, Barrington George Crosby (Barry) Thompson, G4LKF \/ G8JJE, on the 5th March 2017, following 3 months of illness.<\/p>\n<p>Barry served in the RAF 1947 &#8211; 1957, seeing service in the UK and in Hong Kong and later as an NCO Instructor at No 3 Radio School Compton Bassett.\u00a0 After leaving the RAF, Barry was an Electronic Inspector with the MoD, then a Technical Officer with REME.\u00a0 Later he was a Senior Test Technician with an electronics company until ill health forced his early retirement in 1987.\u00a0 He also served as an NCO with 92nd Signals Regiment Royal Signals AER.\u00a0 His amateur radio interests were mainly in the VHF \/ UHF field.<\/p>\n<p>Graham Thompson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with regret that I inform you of the peaceful passing of my father, Barrington George Crosby (Barry) Thompson, G4LKF \/ G8JJE, on the 5th March 2017, following 3 months of illness. Barry served in the RAF 1947 &#8211; 1957, seeing service in the UK and in Hong Kong and later as an NCO [&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-17249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silent-keys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17249","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=17249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}