{"id":38547,"date":"2025-03-31T15:11:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T14:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=38547"},"modified":"2025-03-31T15:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T14:11:18","slug":"david-barlow-duke-g3ple-23-february-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/silent-keys\/2025\/03\/31\/david-barlow-duke-g3ple-23-february-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"David Barlow \u201cDuke\u201d, G3PLE – 23 February 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is with great sadness that Poldhu Amateur Radio Club announce the passing of David Barlow, G3PLE.<\/p>\n

David will be greatly missed by the club, having been a loyal and active member for many years, in that time giving many presentations on Marconi, early wireless development, the Titanic disaster and wireless at sea.<\/p>\n

Prior to being involved with the Marconi Museum at Poldhu, David was the National Trust volunteer manager of the Lizard Wireless station for 14 years.\u00a0 He was a lecturer on early CQD and SOS messages and events and was interviewed frequently by local BBC radio stations.<\/p>\n

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David was a former Merchant Navy Radio Officer and acquired his amateur radio licence in 1959 and held the 1st Class Certificate in Radiotelegraphy.\u00a0 He was a founder member of the Radio Officers Association (ROA) and founder of the Radio Officers Association Radio Society (ROARS). \u00a0 David\u2019s main interest in radio was always CW ops, having been a Morse Examiner, Assessor and Trainer.\u00a0 He was a keen contester and achieved ARRL and CQWW 1st place in G on numerous occasions. He was the Contest Manager for the Poldhu Amateur Radio Club.<\/p>\n

David also gave his time to helping others and for 14 years served as Chairman of a leading hospital radio service with a regular programme featuring his love of big band music.<\/p>\n

David wrote the books \u2018Marconi\u2019s First Little Miracle\u2019 and \u2018Marconi in Cornwall\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n

RIP \u201cDuke\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Neil Whitham,\u00a0G4SEN<\/p>\n

Chairman, Poldhu Amateur Radio Club<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is with great sadness that Poldhu Amateur Radio Club announce the passing of David Barlow, G3PLE. David will be greatly missed by the club, having been a loyal and active member for many years, in that time giving many presentations on Marconi, early wireless development, the Titanic disaster and wireless at sea. Prior to […]<\/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-38547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silent-keys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38547","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=38547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38549,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38547\/revisions\/38549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}