{"id":29670,"date":"2022-05-18T11:06:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T10:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=29670"},"modified":"2022-05-18T11:06:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T10:06:46","slug":"john-birkett-g8opp-30th-april-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/silent-keys\/2022\/05\/18\/john-birkett-g8opp-30th-april-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"John Birkett, G8OPP 30th April 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John owned one of the last surplus electronics shops at 25 The Strait, Lincoln called simply J Birkett. Opened in 1960, John supplied generations of radio amateurs with hard to get radio components. If you visited the shop you could find a vast range of new and secondhand equipment, including vintage\/military\/commercial\/amateur radios, wireless and test equipment, aircraft instruments, microphones, amplifiers, speakers, wire and cables, aerials and various types of antenna, batteries, bulbs, audio accessories and literature. He was a regular at many amateur radio rallies for years. You could always find that \u2018I\u2019ve been looking for one of those\u2019 components.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, his shop, which was much larger than it looked from the outside and an absolute \u2018gold mine\u2019, was a gathering place for like minded people \u2013 amateurs and professional, experimenters, developers and those building new and innovative electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>John passed away peacefully in the Lincoln County Hospital on 30 April 2022 aged 93 years.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts are with his family and the wider amateur radio community who will miss John greatly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John owned one of the last surplus electronics shops at 25 The Strait, Lincoln called simply J Birkett. Opened in 1960, John supplied generations of radio amateurs with hard to get radio components. If you visited the shop you could find a vast range of new and secondhand equipment, including vintage\/military\/commercial\/amateur radios, wireless and test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silent-keys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29670","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\/20375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}