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Bill Somerville, G4WJS died suddenly and unexpectedly a few days ago. He was in his mid-60s. In 2013 he was the first to join Joe, K1JT in forming a core development group for WSJT-X, and has been closely involved with the project ever since. "Our free, open-source software could not have achieved its extensive worldwide popularity and influence in ham radio without Bill's essential contributions", Joe says. "In addition to writing code for important portions of the Qt-based user interface for WSJT-X, Bill helped to bring the overall program structure more nearly up to professional standards. Moreover, he devoted countless hours to program support, patiently answering user's questions on WSJT-related forums".