HPARC Silent Keys (SK) Memorial
Remembering Past Members and Friends of HPARC
A silent key (SK) refers to an Amateur Radio Operator who is deceased. The key in the term refers to a telegraph key, the instrument that all early Amateur Radio Operators, as well as many modern day Hams, have used to send Morse Code. The term SK is used to refer to any Ham Radio operator who is deceased, regardless of whether or not they were known to have actively used a telegraph key or Morse code in their two-way personal communications. When transmitted as two Morse code characters without separating audio delay, 'SK' is a Morse code prosign "end of communications" from the phrase "Stop Keying."
Starting in 2007, the HPARC began a new holiday tradition to acknowledge and remember past members and friends of the HPARC that are no longer with us to honor their memory. These names are listed below to honor their memory and service to the High Point Amateur Radio Club and the Amateur Radio community.
| High Point Amateur Radio Club Silent Keys | ||
| Jim G. Kerr | W4UA | |
| John Bivens | W4AEW | |
| Howard Grant | K4TYW | |
| George Marshall | WQ4K | March 17, 1987 |
| J.B. Lawing | WA4WCL | March 3, 1990 |
| Herman Hall | W4MDE | May 30, 1991 |
| Gerald Roadhouse | WB4GPH | July 1991 |
| Phil Wicker | W4ACY | January 3, 1992 |
| Homer Suggs | N4MHX | January 8, 1993 |
| Larry Robbins | WE4A | April 2, 1993 |
| Lomer McMahan | WA4RIS | May 19, 1993 |
| Ray Shackelford | N4JRO | March 2, 1995 |
| Ray Embry | KA4WOW | April 17, 1995 |
| *Tom Ellis | WA4CBC | September 23, 1995 |
| Paul Eisele | WB4AEE | July 4, 1996 |
| Clayton Hayworth | KB4TSQ | July 17, 1996 |
| Adam Stein III | N1CVG | August 9, 1996 |
| Homer Hammonds | K4GLY | September 16, 1996 |
| Steve McMahan | WB4ZOS | October 1, 1996 |
| Curtis Bell | N5LCC | October 3, 1997 |
| Jim Floyd | K4ZAM | May 23, 1999 |
| Worth “Splick” Russell | WA4DDB | October 6, 1999 |
| Earl Grant | WD4MDE | March 17, 2000 |
| Edwin Peatross | KB4VGO | April 10, 2000 |
| *Myron Buser | KQ4ZA | June 26, 2000 |
| Wayne Williams | K4MOB | February 2, 2002 |
| *Ben Lewallen | N4OCS | March 1, 2003 |
| Lee Groomes | W4YPV | March 16, 2003 |
| Roy Neal | K6DUE | August 15, 2003 |
| *Mires Zett | W4TU | November 5, 2003 |
| Bobby Williams | K4OJT | February 2, 2004 |
| Chet Gwyer | WN4IMZ | October 18, 2004 |
| Ray Huff | NC4RH | February 8, 2005 |
| Don Way | NS4L | March 15, 2005 |
| Jim Williamson | W4VEC | June 24, 2005 |
| *Monroe Kennedy | WB4VKK | November 23, 2005 |
| Yancey Cecil | KD4WG | October 23, 2006 |
| Fred Browning | W1HLP | August 26, 2007 |
| Rogers Albertson | WA4BPL | November 23, 2007 |
*denotes an Honorary Member