Thank you for sharing, and please accept my condolences. About memorialising IRC nicks, I understand why this is done but maybe it doesn't need to be a perpetu

Thank you for sharing, and please accept my condolences. About memorialising IRC nicks, I understand why this is done but maybe it doesn't need to be a perpetual reservation? When an amateur radio operator passes, their callsign becomes a SK (silent-key): http://www.silentkeyhq.com/main.php http://www.silentkeyhq.com/main.php After a period of time, the callsign can be allocated to somebody else. Often this is a descendant of the operator, but not always. Usually the community is in fact happy to see a callsign remain active. In some cases there are multi-generational callsigns that have hundred year histories behind them, which I think is a wonderful connection to maintain throughout our shared history, and future.