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On 09/11/2021 08:09, RSGB via rec.radio.info Admin wrote:
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David Knight, G3YNH, 2nd October 2021
Posted: 08 Nov 2021 06:20 AM PST http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioSocietyOfGreatBritain-MainSite/~3/ViT2eDQa3gs/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email
David Knight, G3YNH passed away suddenly on the 2nd of October 2021 at
the age of 69. Radio had been a large part of his life since childhood.
I met him at the age of 12 and we both became radio amateurs in 1969.
Dave was a founder member of the Shirehampton Amateur Radio Club []
I don't recognise that callsign, but early in 1969 from my home
in Portishead, I listened to G3YHV and G3YIQ at
that Shirehampton Club on Top Band AM
from my Elegant Seven that I had detuned from the MW band.
ISTR bicycling to that club on one occasion across the old
Pill Ferry (Cue: Adge Cutler and the Wurzels "When the nights
are dark and stormy, and the muddy Avon flows" etc etc)
I was passionately interested in radio and electronics from about
the age of 11 or 12 but parental opposition meant that I was unable to
sit the RAE (or even obtain a communications RX) until the first year
at Essex Uni in 1970.
Since then, I'v had many an RX, R210, HRO, R1475, RA17, Eddystones
EA12, 840A, 840C, EC10, EA12, 770, 830, 1837, finally ending up with my
current pride and joy a RACAL 1772.
Today, the power of any one of those radios can be found on a sliver
of silicon from the beach no bigger than a postage stamp!
73 de Gareth G4SDW (ne G8DXY) GQRP #3339
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