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Silent key - an amateur radio operator who is deceased. The term can be abbreviated 'SK', especially in morse code. The key in the term refers to a telegraph key, the instrument that all early amateur radio operators, as well as many contemporary amateur radio operators, have used to send Morse code. The term SK, used in telegraphy to indicate an end of transmission, is therefore also used to refer to any amateur radio operator who is deceased, regardless of whether or not they were known to have used a telegraph key or Morse code in their two-way personal communications.

Silent Keys

#	Callsign	Name	Comment
1	W6VT	Bud Whiteman	Great CW person. Many years as a two radio technician in Orange County. His first call 6VT. Over the Hill Gang
2	W6ALO	TommyJentges	A great CW person. True gentleman. Also a good projectionist. Over the Hill Gang.
3	N6ME	Mike Sahadi	Sorry would take up a hundred web pages to tell the stories. Mike loved CW.
4	W6SYC	Leroy Sparks	My first radio contact on two meters. A technician for HP in Fullerton for years. A full radio repair shop in Santa Ana.
5	K6BBB	Bob Gilbertson	Lots of good times on VHF and UHF over the years. Bob was a charter member of DARC.
6	N6RJ	Jim Rafferty	HRO Anaheim Lot of good deals and good times with Jim. Also at WARA field day every year.
7	KØHWY	Tex Beneke	Many a good time at the Plaza Gardens Disneyland with Tex. Great, great, great person.
8	WB6MQS	Greg "Scott" Mills	Anaheim High Class of 1966.
9	KA6SOP	Irv Lans	The power man for WARA Field Days. Never met a generator he didn't like.
10	WA6UYB	Dick Holmes	WARA Good guy helped with many projects.
11	N6BVU	Karl Pagel	Member DARC Over the Hill Gang
12	WB6EFZ	Herman Heidel	Herman worked at Disneyland in the plumbing shop. Charter member of DARC.
13	W4XAA	Tom "Tomcat" Kneitel	Great writer, great magazines.
14	WA6X	Robert "Waxie" Hammmer	Many many hours on 146.445 with Waxie Over the Hill Gang
15	K6SV	George Varvitsiotes	HRO VP He was a technician, a salesman, a store manager.
16	WV6V	Cam Burke	Only got to work with Cam as a VE for a few times. Great person. His Club K6COV in Orange.
17	WD6EZE	Rudy Bermudes	Charter Member DARC
18	KK6KK	aka W6LKO Bobbo	WACKO Radio Club lots of good times in almost 40 years....
19	KB6UJW	Wayne Barringer	Lots of good times at HRO with Wayne ... "Semper Fi"
20	K6OHM	John Thompson	Without Johns help never would have been a Disneyland ARC ... Lots of good times at HRO.
21	W6RJ	Robert "Bob" G. Ferrero Sr.	Founder of Ham Radio Outlet
22	WB6LYK	Ted Schumacher	One of my Elmers Got me into computers may years ago.
23	W6MHB	Riley Gaynor	Ex WB6QVY. Would take all day to tell abt Riley…. Owe everything I have to him.
24	WA6RXK	Jon Miller	Another person got me into computers. Lots of good breakfast meetings with WB6LYK.
25	N6ISY	Dick Burno	WCARC for many years. Helped getting me started as a VE with WCARC
25	K6HUU	Carl Dobrowolski	Original member WA6OWW remote base in SoCal. ATV expert. Good CW person.
26	K6KNR	Russ Farrell	Lots of great time talking to Russ at the YL Radio Shack Store.
27	W6SZH	John Stenbakken	Great instructor at Carson High School built many of his projects.
28	KE6FUZ	Rob Queen	Rob worked at Disneyland. Trustee for Disneyland repeater. Also worked at ACC
29	WA6KXU	Ken Gruber	Original ham in the Disney Radio Club. A true leather craftsman