A Memorial
to
Kim Crosby
VE6AGW
1944-1967

Kim - VE6AGW
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I met Kim while operating 80 meter CW in 1961.  We both were in our last year of  high school, had started in ham radio about a year before, and taking similar classes preparing for college.  Kim lived in Edmonton Alberta Canada and myself in San Jose California.  We had a lot in common.  For about a year we kept a CW schedule almost nightly on 80 m CW.  After high school Kim attended the University of Alberta in Edmonton majoring in physics.   I attended San Jose State College also majoring in physics.  Our studies did not allow time to continue the CW schedule but we did maintain written correspondence for the next four years along with an occasional CW contact.  Only one time did we make a voice contact and I think one phone call.  Nearing graduation in 1966 we started hunting for graduate schools.  As part of this process we took the Advanced Physics Exam section of the Graduate Record Exam as required by most graduate school physics departments.  Kim wrote a perfect exam with a score of 800 out of a possible 800.  Only a few people do this each year.  ALL the major universities including MIT, Princeton and California Institute of Technology made Kim offers.  Kim accepted the offer from Cal Tech in Pasadena California.  

Kim and his friend Bill came to San Jose for our one and only visit in September 1966 on his way to Southern California.  Kim returned to Edmonton for a visit at Easter 1967.  While returning to Edmonton from a ski trip at Banff he was hit in his VW by a drunk driver and killed.  I learned this when a letter I had written was returned with a note from Cal Tech.

Kim's death was a tremendous loss.  He was a brilliant person and a great friend.  We had corresponded for six years by CW and letter.  To this day I often wonder just how much he would have contributed to this world both professionally and personally.  The drunk driver took away a great person that day in 1967 near Edson Alberta.

QSL Card - 1961  QSL Card from 1961

QSL-greetings 1961 Back of QSL

Back of QSL 1962 From 1962

Kim Crosby VE6AGW  Kim Crosby VE6AGW 1963


Photo inscription  Description

Power Supply  Operational Power Supply - Be Careful!

{S- description  Power Supply Description

Terry, Kim, Bill Description
            Terry - WA6NAV            Kim - VE6AGW              Bill
    Our one and only meeting in September 1966


Please -  Don't Drive after Drinking

Written by Terry 44 years after our first QSO and 38 years after Kim's death.
April 2005