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  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.

*denotes an Honorary Member