{"id":951,"date":"2026-01-08T16:05:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/?p=951"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:08:22","slug":"bill-gillespie-ve6abc-silent-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/bill-gillespie-ve6abc-silent-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gillespie, VE6ABC, Silent Key"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Bill Gillespie, VE6ABC,<\/strong> passed away on <strong>January 3, 2026 at the age of 96<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.serenity.ca\/obituaries\/William-Bill-Allister-Gillespie?obId=46854546\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Here is Bill&#8217;s obituary<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill was very active in the hobby from the 1970&#8217;s through the 1990&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some notable areas of his activity\u00a0were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Net Control station for the Alberta Public Service Net on HF in addition to section manager and section communications manager.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>President of the Northern Alberta Radio Club, the only active club in Edmonton at the time<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Northern Alberta Radio Club 2m Net Control station as well as the on-air swap and shop<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CW&nbsp;practice session on the NARC 2m repeater<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maintained the tube bank for many years<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Produced, edited and oversaw the printing and distribution of the The Emitter, NARC&#8217;s news letter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Participated in Hubert Johnson&#8217;s, VE6AMY,  Field Day from 1979 to 2019 missing only one year&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Produced an Alberta call sign directory in 1976 and 1979 (at the time Edmonton had two&nbsp;2m repeaters&nbsp;the province had 18<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bill joined the Quarter Century Amateur Radio Club in 1986, the first year the club held an Annual General Meeting and was a long term member<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gillespie, VE6ABC, passed away on January 3, 2026 at the age of 96. Here is Bill&#8217;s obituary Bill was very active in the hobby from the 1970&#8217;s through the 1990&#8217;s. Some notable areas of his activity\u00a0were:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qcarc.radio\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}