[EIDXA] Fw: Bob Hill

[Glen and Pam]

EIDXA....Sorry to have to pass on this message.  Maybe some of you know more
details on the SK of Bob Hill.  Below is copy of email I got from Tom Jones
(don't really know how he got my email but I had looked on web for Bob's
email a few years ago.)

73,
Glen




----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen and Pam" <k0jgh at lisco.net>
To: "tomjones811" <tomjones811 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: Bob Hill


> Tom,
>
> Well, I am very sorry to hear of this but from the last that I emailed
with
> Bob it was somewhat expected.  I believe he told me that before he got the
> boat back up to Texas he had been in for a medical checkup.  They found a
> virus in his heart that had come from an infected mosquito down in central
> America.  This would cause the heart to enlarge and no reversal was in the
> cards.  I'm not positive I am telling the story absolutely correct.....but
> it was along those lines.  I don't know if you were on his email from his
> trips back up to Texas but that was a story of it's own.   Everyday there
> was a "captains log" by Bob.  What a guy....!!  I will check around to see
> if any of the guys up in Cedar Rapids, IA have hear anything.  That is
where
> I met Bob.
> QRZ or eham.net  his my story.  Also, if you would like some of my long
ago
> background go to eham.net and look under silent keys for K0JGI.  That was
my
> Dad and I wrote up a little story on how he and I got on the air.
>
> Bob Hill was a mentor to a lot of new hams.  I don't know how many but
many
> boaters around FL got their licenses from Bob's classes but there were
many.
>
> If I hear anything I'll pass it on.
>
> 73,
> Glen
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tomjones811" <tomjones811 at yahoo.com>
> To: <k0jgh at lisco.net>
> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 2:47 PM
> Subject: Bob Hill
>
>
> Glen:
>
> I too was a friend of Bob Hill. In fact, he and I worked at a
> computer manufacturing plant in Fort Lauderdale FL for many years.
> He introduced me to Amateur Radio.
>
> He left Fort Lauderdale and moved to Iowa, where you met him. After
> Iowa, he moved to Washington state, where I lost contact with him.
>
> I am sorry to report that Bob died on 02/18/2005. I don't know how
> or where, found out by searching the internet. If I am wrong about
> this, please let me know.
>
> I have tried several times to contact Carol (WA4LHB), his wife, but
> to no avail.
>
> If you are able to contact her, please give her my e-mail address
> and ask her to contact me at tomjones811 at yahoo.com.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tom
>
>
>
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