{"id":19979,"date":"2018-06-22T15:08:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T15:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=19979"},"modified":"2018-06-22T15:08:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T15:08:44","slug":"curtis-keyer-inventor-goes-sk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2018\/06\/22\/curtis-keyer-inventor-goes-sk\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtis Keyer inventor goes SK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many seasoned CW operators will remember fondly the Curtis Morse keyer chip.<\/p>\n<p>The ground-breaking device, which revolutionised electronic keyers, was developed in the late 1960s by John G. Curtis, K6KU, who was more often known as Jack.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, Jack became a Silent Key on 4 June 2018.<\/p>\n<p>His legacy lives on in thousands of devices; most of today\u2019s electronic keyers owe a debt of gratitude to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many seasoned CW operators will remember fondly the Curtis Morse keyer chip. The ground-breaking device, which revolutionised electronic keyers, was developed in the late 1960s by John G. Curtis, K6KU, who was more often known as Jack. Sadly, Jack became a Silent Key on 4 June 2018. His legacy lives on in thousands of devices; [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19979","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=19979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}