{"id":44153,"date":"2025-12-12T13:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=44153"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:50:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T11:50:30","slug":"dr-bob-whelan-g3pjt-silent-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2025\/12\/12\/dr-bob-whelan-g3pjt-silent-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Bob Whelan, G3PJT &#8211; Silent Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great sadness that we share the news that Dr Bob Whelan, G3PJT became a Silent Key on 4 December.<\/p>\n<p>Bob\u2019s contribution to amateur radio was extensive. First licensed in 1961, his main interest was in HF\/LF CW operation. In this he soon became a strong supporter of the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/radio-sport\/commonwealth-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Commonwealth Contest<\/strong><\/a>, operating from a number of DX locations for the contest over many years. He wrote the book <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.services\/public\/publications\/Reflections_in_a_Rosebowl_Bob_Whelan_G3PJT.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u201cReflections in a Rosebowl\u201d<\/strong><\/a> which covers the history of the Commonwealth Contest, and he put much effort into building an online Commonwealth Contest community.<\/p>\n<p>Bob also played very significant roles in the RSGB, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iaru-r1.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IARU<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.g4foc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>FOC<\/strong><\/a> (First Class Operators Club). For the RSGB, he started his volunteering as a member of the RSGB HF Committee and Management Committees and later was President from 2002-2003 and again from 2013-2014.<\/p>\n<p>A full tribute can be read <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/silent-keys\/2025\/12\/18\/dr-bob-whelan-g3pjt-4-december-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We send our condolences to his wife Rosemary and their family at this sad time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great sadness that we share the news that Dr Bob Whelan, G3PJT became a Silent Key on 4 December. Bob\u2019s contribution to amateur radio was extensive. First licensed in 1961, his main interest was in HF\/LF CW operation. In this he soon became a strong supporter of the Commonwealth Contest, operating from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44153","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\/20358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44153"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44898,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44153\/revisions\/44898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}