{"id":51123,"date":"2026-10-20T16:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T15:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=51123"},"modified":"2026-10-20T16:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T15:23:12","slug":"trevor-hughes-g4wkj-sk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/silent-keys\/2026\/10\/20\/trevor-hughes-g4wkj-sk\/","title":{"rendered":"Trevor Hughes, G4WKJ, SK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51124 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/10\/IMG_3100-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/10\/IMG_3100-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/10\/IMG_3100-759x1024.jpg 759w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/10\/IMG_3100-111x150.jpg 111w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/10\/IMG_3100-768x1036.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/10\/IMG_3100-1139x1536.jpg 1139w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/10\/IMG_3100-1518x2048.jpg 1518w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2026\/10\/IMG_3100-scaled.jpg 1898w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/>It is with much sadness, that we share the news that our former, and much respected, RSGB National Radio Centre (NRC) Volunteer Trevor Hughes, G4WKJ has passed away.<\/p>\n<p>A great lover of music and a talented musician, Trevor was also the designer of the hugely popular SNAIL Morse key that is widely used, not just in the NRC, but at many of the RSGB Outreach events, to encourage and inspire youngsters to take up Morse code. With more than 2,000 kits personally donated by Trevor, he was awarded \u2018NRC Outstanding Volunteer of the Year Award\u2019 in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Trevor was highly regarded by his fellow volunteers at the NRC for his warmth and friendliness, especially to those new to the hobby of amateur radio.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts are with his wife Diana, G6FIO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with much sadness, that we share the news that our former, and much respected, RSGB National Radio Centre (NRC) Volunteer Trevor Hughes, G4WKJ has passed away. A great lover of music and a talented musician, Trevor was also the designer of the hugely popular SNAIL Morse key that is widely used, not just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silent-keys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51123","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\/20361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51126,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51123\/revisions\/51126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}