Bill Holly Obituary News; Death – Cause of Death: According to an online obituary on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, Bill Holly has passed away unexpectedly. However, his cause of death was not disclosed.
Words fall short of expressing our grief for your loss, as we mourn with family and friends for this great loss. Please accept our condolences and may our prayers help comfort you. Please receive our heartfelt condolences.
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“Bill Holly, K1BH passed away peacefully at his hospice at 83 after fighting liver cancer. He was surrounded by his family and had received and read all of the many notes from hams and friends thanking him for his years of dedicated work on the history of telegraphy and his enthusiastic participation in many ham activities.
Here’s a note from his wife Fran: ‘Thanks to all the hams who wrote so sincerely about their appreciation of Bill’s contributions to ham radio and the history of radio and telegraph. He was pleased to read their notes, and so was I.’
When the AWA and NEVEC nets (and others that he was a member of) go on the air, I hope you will put out a call to K1BH. I am sure he will hear you 59 on his quadruple-conversion Super-Duper-Heterodyne receiver. I am also sure he will figure out a way to cobble together a transmitter to answer you. It most likely will be a spark transmitter like this one that I photographed in his shack in 2002 so listen carefully to what may sound like QRN or static. See if you can make out the breaks of Morse Code dots and dashes in his raspy spark transmissions that may sound like the noise level.
Bill has embarked on ham radio’s greatest DXpedition so listen hard for him and let us know if you make contact. Also, keep an eye out for Bill when you are walking around at the AWA (Conference) or Near-Fest or Marlboro hamfests. He will be there looking at whatever strange keys like a Schurr bug that might turn up.”
Feel free to drop condolences messages and prayers for the family and friends of the deceased as it will go a very long way at this difficult time of theirs.