{"id":22093,"date":"2019-04-09T08:20:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T08:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=22093"},"modified":"2019-04-23T10:42:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T10:42:39","slug":"ken-hatton-g3vba-5th-april-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/silent-keys\/2019\/04\/09\/ken-hatton-g3vba-5th-april-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Hatton, G3VBA, 5th April 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22099\" style=\"width: 133px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2019\/04\/G3VBA-Ken-Hatton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22099\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-22099\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2019\/04\/G3VBA-Ken-Hatton-123x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Hatton, G3VBA (SK)\" width=\"123\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2019\/04\/G3VBA-Ken-Hatton-123x150.jpg 123w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2019\/04\/G3VBA-Ken-Hatton-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2019\/04\/G3VBA-Ken-Hatton.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 123px) 100vw, 123px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Hatton, G3VBA (SK)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ken Hatton, G3VBA became Silent Key on 5 April 2019. He became GB2RS Manager in January 2014 and dealt with the paperwork for volunteer newsreaders. He became interested in amateur radio as a schoolboy and had been licensed for 53 years. A member of Warrington ARC, he served as their secretary for a number of years. He maintained his interests in HF, VHF, UHF, digital voice and data modes throughout his life. At one point he spent a great deal of his time helping to create Word files of many of the hand-written files in the RSGB archive. Rest in peace Ken.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The funeral service will be held at 2.20pm on Friday 26th April in Walton Lea Crematorium (Chester Road, Walton, Warrington, WA4 6TB). It will be followed by a reception at 3.15pm with sandwiches and drinks at the aptly-named Hatton Arms (Hatton Ln, Hatton, Warrington WA4 4DB), which is five minutes&#8217; drive from the crematorium.<\/p>\n<p>Ken\u2019s family would like donations to go to the Grace Kelly Childhood Cancer trust, details of which can be found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dignityfunerals.co.uk\/funeral-notices\/06-04-2019-kenneth-harry-hatton\/\">online funeral notice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Hatton, G3VBA became Silent Key on 5 April 2019. He became GB2RS Manager in January 2014 and dealt with the paperwork for volunteer newsreaders. He became interested in amateur radio as a schoolboy and had been licensed for 53 years. A member of Warrington ARC, he served as their secretary for a number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20369,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silent-keys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22093","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\/20369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}