{"id":45769,"date":"2026-02-18T09:58:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=45769"},"modified":"2026-02-20T14:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:10:17","slug":"colin-thomas-g3psm-17-february-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2026\/02\/18\/colin-thomas-g3psm-17-february-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Thomas, G3PSM, SK &#8211; 17 February 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Colin Thomas, G3PSM. Colin died on Tuesday 17 February 2026 surrounded by family after a short illness.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-45770\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/02\/Colin-Thomas-G3PSM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/02\/Colin-Thomas-G3PSM.jpg 225w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/02\/Colin-Thomas-G3PSM-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Colin (pictured) worked tirelessly for the RSGB and was President in 2008\/9.<\/p>\n<p>Colin made a great contribution to the acquisition and defence of radio spectrum. In particular, within Region 1 he played a leading role in the acquisition of additional bands including 136kHz, 472kHz, allocations at 5MHz and the expansion of 7MHz.<\/p>\n<p>He also led the successful defence of existing allocations. IARU Region 1 radio amateurs owe him a huge debt.<\/p>\n<p>Colin was an Honorary Life Vice-President and a recipient of the Founder\u2019s trophy in recognition of his work both for the Society and for the IARU.<\/p>\n<p>A full tribute to Colin is being prepared for this web page and RadCom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Colin Thomas, G3PSM. Colin died on Tuesday 17 February 2026 surrounded by family after a short illness. Colin (pictured) worked tirelessly for the RSGB and was President in 2008\/9. Colin made a great contribution to the acquisition and defence of radio spectrum. In particular, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47,55,266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines","category-rsgb-notices","category-silent-keys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45769","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=45769"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45855,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45769\/revisions\/45855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}