{"id":28348,"date":"2021-11-08T14:20:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T14:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=28348"},"modified":"2021-11-08T14:20:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T14:20:46","slug":"david-knight-g3ynh-2nd-october-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/silent-keys\/2021\/11\/08\/david-knight-g3ynh-2nd-october-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"David Knight, G3YNH, 2nd October 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28349\" style=\"width: 139px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/11\/David-G3YNH.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28349\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-28349\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/11\/David-G3YNH-129x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"129\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/11\/David-G3YNH-129x150.jpg 129w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2021\/11\/David-G3YNH.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 129px) 100vw, 129px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Knight, G3YNH (SK)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>David Knight, G3YNH passed away suddenly on the 2nd of October 2021 at the age of 69.<\/p>\n<p>Radio had been a large part of his life since childhood. I met him at the age of 12 and we both became radio amateurs in 1969. Dave was a founder member of the Shirehampton Amateur Radio Club in Bristol and taught the RAE [the amateur licence exam back then] course there for many years. His amusing style will be remembered by all of his students!<\/p>\n<p>Dave had been involved in setting up EMC testing laboratories, the design of antenna systems and equipment in the field of high resolution spectroscopy. He was awarded a PhD in microwave spectroscopy at Bristol university in 1985 after a research fellowship at the Daresbury Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>Dave and Jenny also founded the company Cameras Underwater in 1995. Many members may have used David\u2019s website www.g3ynh.info \u2013 a treasure trove of facts and calculations relating to many technical aspects of our hobby, physics and materials science.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts are very much with his friends and family at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Tribute by Colin Chidgey, G3YHV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Knight, G3YNH passed away suddenly on the 2nd of October 2021 at the age of 69. Radio had been a large part of his life since childhood. I met him at the age of 12 and we both became radio amateurs in 1969. Dave was a founder member of the Shirehampton Amateur Radio Club [&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-28348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silent-keys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28348","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=28348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}