{"id":44528,"date":"2026-01-06T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=44528"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:59:00","slug":"bert-van-den-berg-pa3gio-5-december-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/silent-keys\/2026\/01\/06\/bert-van-den-berg-pa3gio-5-december-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Bert van den Berg, PA3GIO &#8211; 5 December 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the greatest sadness we have to announce that Bert, PA3GIO, suddenly passed away on 5 December 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-44529\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/01\/Bert-Van-Den-Berg-PA3GIO-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/01\/Bert-Van-Den-Berg-PA3GIO-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/01\/Bert-Van-Den-Berg-PA3GIO-1024x577.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/01\/Bert-Van-Den-Berg-PA3GIO-150x84.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/01\/Bert-Van-Den-Berg-PA3GIO-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/01\/Bert-Van-Den-Berg-PA3GIO-1536x865.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/01\/Bert-Van-Den-Berg-PA3GIO.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Bert was a prolific traveller and DXpeditioner, operating many DXpeditions solo with his XYL from 1993 to 2007. He received the IOTA Merit Award in 2002 for his excellent contribution to the IOTA community as wel as the DXpeditioner of the Year Award 2005 from the Southwest OHIO DX Association.<\/p>\n<p>We want to thank each and every amateur radio operator that helped make Bert\u2019s experience on the air such a special one. Bert will be missed immensely by his family, but knowing he has such a legacy helps us to feel that he lives on in some way. We will keep his website alive as a record of his time on the air.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa3gio.nl\">https:\/\/www.pa3gio.nl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Karin van den Berg<\/p>\n<p>Daughter of PA3GIO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the greatest sadness we have to announce that Bert, PA3GIO, suddenly passed away on 5 December 2025. Bert was a prolific traveller and DXpeditioner, operating many DXpeditions solo with his XYL from 1993 to 2007. He received the IOTA Merit Award in 2002 for his excellent contribution to the IOTA community as wel as [&hellip;]<\/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-44528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silent-keys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44528","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=44528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44530,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44528\/revisions\/44530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}