{"id":34850,"date":"2024-06-25T10:28:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T09:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=34850"},"modified":"2024-06-25T10:28:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T09:28:01","slug":"nigel-at-hardy-zl2tx-17-june-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/silent-keys\/2024\/06\/25\/nigel-at-hardy-zl2tx-17-june-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel AT Hardy, ZL2TX \u2013 17 June 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nigel (ex-G3TJD) was a keen CW DXer, as both G3TJD and \"\", for most of his life.<\/p>\n

While working as a lab\u2019 assistant in Stafford in 1965, he established a radio club in the local Grammar School which enabled a few of us to get our licences. He had been a radio operator in the Merchant Navy and then on the inter-island Cook Strait ferries between the north and south islands of New Zealand.<\/p>\n

Nigel (Nat) was a member of FISTS Downunder and RNARS.<\/p>\n

He would have been 78 years old in July and\u00a0leaves a wife Christine and sons David and Phillip. A truly wonderful lifelong friend to many of us.<\/p>\n

Reg Godwin, G3VDH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nigel (ex-G3TJD) was a keen CW DXer, as both G3TJD and , for most of his life. While working as a lab\u2019 assistant in Stafford in 1965, he established a radio club in the local Grammar School which enabled a few of us to get our licences. He had been a radio operator in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silent-keys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34850","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\/20377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}