{"id":28262,"date":"2021-10-29T10:21:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T09:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=28262"},"modified":"2021-10-29T10:21:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T09:21:54","slug":"john-gerard-g4pkw-26th-october-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/silent-keys\/2021\/10\/29\/john-gerard-g4pkw-26th-october-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"John Gerard, G4PKW, 26th October 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28263\" style=\"width: 108px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/10\/G4PKW-John-Gerard-1926_2021_PerfectlyClear.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28263\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-28263\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/10\/G4PKW-John-Gerard-1926_2021_PerfectlyClear-98x150.jpg\" alt=\"John Gerard, G4PKW (SK)\" width=\"98\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/10\/G4PKW-John-Gerard-1926_2021_PerfectlyClear-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/10\/G4PKW-John-Gerard-1926_2021_PerfectlyClear-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/10\/G4PKW-John-Gerard-1926_2021_PerfectlyClear.jpg 365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 98px) 100vw, 98px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Gerard, G4PKW (SK)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>John Gerard, G4PKW, passed away peacefully on Tuesday 26th October 2021 at the age of 95.<\/p>\n<p>Radio has been a large part of his life since the 1930s. At the end of the War at age of 19 he travelled to India with the Royal Signals as an operator; whilst there he set up a civilian wireless station VU2CV.<\/p>\n<p>Those who knew him will know he was a gentle man with a great love of radio. We often talked radio, even at his great age recalling valve line-ups of civilian broadcast receivers from manufacturers long gone; his memory never ceased to amaze.<\/p>\n<p>As he got older and his eyesight failed, members of Bromsgrove and District Amateur Radio Club helped him continue his hobby throughout, even through his transition to near total blindness, and I thank them for the kindness.<\/p>\n<p>On his behalf I would like to say a final 73s and 88s to amateurs around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Keith Gerard, GM4TPX (John\u2019s son)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gerard, G4PKW, passed away peacefully on Tuesday 26th October 2021 at the age of 95. Radio has been a large part of his life since the 1930s. At the end of the War at age of 19 he travelled to India with the Royal Signals as an operator; whilst there he set up a [&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-28262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silent-keys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28262","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=28262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}