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[IK0ZCW]

Will Roberts, AA4NC lost his life in a plane crash on 21 October. An experienced pilot, he was taking off from a small airstrip near Holly Ridge (North Carolina) when his single-engine Mooney M20J crashed. "I have been interested in contesting and DXing my entire ham career", he would say, "and prefer being on the DX end of the pileup". Will operated from a large number of places, notably Navassa Island (AA4NC/KP1 1992), Sable Island (CY0XX 1996), St. Eustatius (PJ5/AA4NC October 2010), St. Paul Island (CY9C 2016 and 2019) and San Andres (5K0N 2017). In 2018 and 2020 he went on two island-hopping tours in the Pacific, which included stops at Palau (T8NC), Saipan (KH0/AA4NC), Guam (KH2/AA4NC), Hawaii (KH6/AA4NC), Tahiti (TX4N), Norfolk Island (VK9NR), Papua New Guinea (P29NC), Solomon Islands (H44NC), Vanuatu (YJ0NC) and Fiji (3D2AA). Will was already signed up for both CY9C and CY0C in 2022.