{"id":8980,"date":"2013-11-19T11:19:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T11:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=8980"},"modified":"2013-11-19T11:20:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T11:20:36","slug":"ted-brown-mm3syj-5-october-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/silent-keys\/2013\/11\/19\/ted-brown-mm3syj-5-october-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Brown, MM3SYJ, 5 October 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Brown&#8217;s interest in radio communications was kindled by CB radio, not gaining his amateur radio licence until his later years. \u00a0He very much embraced the hobby and in particular the E-link facility provided via the station of the local RSGB Newsreader in Perth.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his\u00a0ill -health, Ted was an enthusiastic fund raiser, arranging mini-rallies for both CB and amateur radio interests. His endeavours raised over \u00a345,000 for local and national charities. Ted was a member of Perth &amp; District ARG and Dundee ARC, groups affiliated to RSGB. His contribution to our hobby will be much missed both locally and by friends around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tribute by Dr Ron Harkess OBE, GM3THI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Brown&#8217;s interest in radio communications was kindled by CB radio, not gaining his amateur radio licence until his later years. \u00a0He very much embraced the hobby and in particular the E-link facility provided via the station of the local RSGB Newsreader in Perth. Despite his\u00a0ill -health, Ted was an enthusiastic fund raiser, arranging mini-rallies [&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-8980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silent-keys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8980","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=8980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}