{"id":6927,"date":"2013-05-13T14:21:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T14:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rsgbbeta.org\/?p=6927"},"modified":"2013-05-13T14:21:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T14:21:18","slug":"james-ken-downs-g8cfi-23-march-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/silent-keys\/2013\/05\/13\/james-ken-downs-g8cfi-23-march-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"James &#8216;Ken&#8217; Downs, G8CFI, 23 March 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Kenneth Downs, G8CFI, known as Ken, passed away on 23 March 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Dad had been a keen radio amateur since being a teenager and had built many radios himself over the years. He still showed a keen interest in the hobby even at 84 years old struggling with COPD. According to Mum he received RadCom free of charge as a thank you for donating one of these radios to the RSGB for others to use and learn from. I cannot tell you much at all about his radio activities as I didn&#8217;t understand it in the slightest, I would just agree with him and nod impressively when he would say what he had heard on 2 metres (I still haven&#8217;t the foggiest what that means!!).<\/p>\n<p>He was 84 years old, died peacefully in Chorley District Hospital in Lancashire and has left behind his wife (my Mum) Audrey Downs and three daughters &#8211; Gail, Pascale and Claire (me!).<\/p>\n<p>Tribute by Claire Downs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Kenneth Downs, G8CFI, known as Ken, passed away on 23 March 2013. Dad had been a keen radio amateur since being a teenager and had built many radios himself over the years. He still showed a keen interest in the hobby even at 84 years old struggling with COPD. According to Mum he received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silent-keys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6927","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\/20018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}