{"id":9128,"date":"2013-12-09T09:50:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T09:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=9128"},"modified":"2013-12-09T09:52:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T09:52:40","slug":"mr-royston-hunt-m3hhr-27-november-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/silent-keys\/2013\/12\/09\/mr-royston-hunt-m3hhr-27-november-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr Royston Hunt, M3HHR, 27 November 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Royston Hunt, M3HHR passed away peacefully on\u00a027 November 2013 at St Giles Nursing Home, Lichfield.<\/p>\n<p>Roy was a TV service engineer from the age of 17, coming through the trade in the 405 line days. He became interested in hi-fi over the years and built various amplifiers plus short wave equipment. He built an electronic organ over a period of five years and from there turned to digital keyboards.<\/p>\n<p>Always a short wave listener, Royston built various bits of receiving equipment, antennas and preamps. He became interested in software defined radio and built a SoftRock 40 receiver.<\/p>\n<p>He was active on the air with a Yaesu FT-897 on 2m and HF, using a homebrew ATU followed by a half size G5RV plus 80m traps. He was a very loyal and friendly club member who will be greatly missed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tribute by Rob Bird,<br \/>\nSecretary, Sutton Coldfield Radio Society<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Royston Hunt, M3HHR passed away peacefully on\u00a027 November 2013 at St Giles Nursing Home, Lichfield. Roy was a TV service engineer from the age of 17, coming through the trade in the 405 line days. He became interested in hi-fi over the years and built various amplifiers plus short wave equipment. He built an [&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-9128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silent-keys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128","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=9128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}