{"id":783177,"date":"2024-05-30T09:23:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T14:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=783177"},"modified":"2024-05-30T09:23:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T14:23:15","slug":"cliff-ahrens-k0ca-former-arrl-midwest-division-vice-director-silent-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=783177","title":{"rendered":"Cliff Ahrens, K0CA, Former ARRL Midwest Division Vice Director, Silent Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"date\">05\/30\/2024<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hon. Clifford Ahrens, K0CA, passed away on May 22, 2024. He served as Vice Director and Director of the ARRL Midwest Division. He was a Life Member of ARRL and the Hannibal Amateur Radio Club, and held an Extra-class amateur radio license.<\/p>\n<p>In 1991 Ahrens was appointed by then-Missouri Governor John Ashcroft to the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Eastern District, where he also served one term as Chief Judge.<\/p>\n<p>Longtime friend and current ARRL Midwest Director Arthur Zygielbaum, K0AIZ, said Ahrens\u2019 death is a great loss for amateur radio. \u201cHe was kind, always available to give advice, and was proud of the hobby,\u201d said Zygielbaum.<\/p>\n<p>Former ARRL Midwest Division Vice Director Roderick Blocksome, K0DAS, first met Ahrens in early 2000. \u201cBeing a judge, he was very deliberate about considering all of the issues and applying decisions with a high degree of integrity\u201d said Blocksome.<\/p>\n<p>Services for Ahrens will be held Friday, May 31 at the Holy Family Church in Hannibal, Missouri.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/view\/cliff-ahrens-k0ca-former-arrl-midwest-division-director-silent-key?rand=771671\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>05\/30\/2024 Hon. Clifford Ahrens, K0CA, passed away on May 22, 2024. He served as Vice Director and Director of the ARRL Midwest Division. He was a Life Member of ARRL&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":771673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ARRL"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=783177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/771673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=783177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=783177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=783177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}