{"id":17856,"date":"2017-07-24T14:17:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T14:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=17856"},"modified":"2017-07-24T14:25:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T14:25:47","slug":"john-donald-wightman-zl1ah-july-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/silent-keys\/2017\/07\/24\/john-donald-wightman-zl1ah-july-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"John Donald Wightman, ZL1AH, July 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sad to pass on news from New Zealand that RSGB member John Wightman, ZL1AH has died.\u00a0He was a very long time member of the RSGB, over 80 years I think. He was aged 97.<\/p>\n<p>In 1969 I was a pupil in his class and he made a special effort for us during the first manned moon landing, setting up receiving equipment to listen directly to what was, for the southern hemisphere, a daytime event. It was he that got me interested in amateur radio initially, even though it was decades later that I got a first license as TF3XXT.<\/p>\n<p>I visited John a couple of times when visiting NZ. He was a CW-only operator, and I remember his shocked reaction when I asked where his microphone was when he showed me his new rig during one visit.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/bay-of-plenty-times\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1503343&amp;objectid=11886905\"><em>Bay of Plenty Times<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>in Tauranga, New Zealand, where John lived, includes a more detailed obituary and a photograph. The doctor mentioned in the article, Ross Ogle, was in the same class year as me.<\/p>\n<p>Tribute by\u00a0Geoff Crowley,\u00a0MM5AHO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sad to pass on news from New Zealand that RSGB member John Wightman, ZL1AH has died.\u00a0He was a very long time member of the RSGB, over 80 years I think. He was aged 97. In 1969 I was a pupil in his class and he made a special effort for us during the [&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-17856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silent-keys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17856","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=17856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}