{"id":9093,"date":"2013-12-02T09:55:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T09:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=9093"},"modified":"2013-12-02T09:55:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T09:55:42","slug":"bill-learmonth-g4yze-january-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/silent-keys\/2013\/12\/02\/bill-learmonth-g4yze-january-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Learmonth, G4YZE, January 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Learmonth, G4YZE\u00a0passed away in January 2013 at the age of 88 years.<\/p>\n<p>Bill well be remembered for his excellent talks and slide shows,\u00a0showing the complete history of Winter Hill and the development\u00a0in the 1950s of the TV station, using an ex Chain Home mast\u00a0for channel 9 ITV, that had just been introduced.\u00a0For many, many years, Bill was the Chief Engineer there,\u00a0when run by the IBA.\u00a0 It is now run by Arqiva.<\/p>\n<p>There is a fine obituary to Bill as a PDF on the ROAR web pages,\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/pmd5pk6\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/pmd5pk6<\/a>,\u00a0page 3.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Bill had compiled a DVD showing\u00a0the history of Winter Hill. The video is about 35 minutes long.\u00a0It is available to view or download from the BATC web pages.<\/p>\n<p>Bill will be sadly missed by all those who knew him. He was\u00a0a very fine gentleman indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Tribute by\u00a0Stewart Revell, \u00a0 G3PMJ<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9094\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2013\/12\/G4YZE-SK.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9094\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9094\" alt=\"A profile view of a white-haired, bespectacled Bill Learmonth, G4YZE, looking towards the right of the photograph\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2013\/12\/G4YZE-SK.jpg\" width=\"204\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2013\/12\/G4YZE-SK.jpg 204w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2013\/12\/G4YZE-SK-145x150.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The late Bill Learmonth, G4YZE, seen here in June 2010 on a visit to Winter Hill with members of the IET<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Learmonth, G4YZE\u00a0passed away in January 2013 at the age of 88 years. Bill well be remembered for his excellent talks and slide shows,\u00a0showing the complete history of Winter Hill and the development\u00a0in the 1950s of the TV station, using an ex Chain Home mast\u00a0for channel 9 ITV, that had just been introduced.\u00a0For many, many [&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-9093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silent-keys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093","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=9093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}