Very sad news. I liked Roy a lot, and will very much miss him in all four contexts - on-air, online, in person at rallies, and as the person behind several very attractive SSEG QSL cards in my collection.
Roy had already sent me several of these in return for SWL reports in the years before I was licensed. Subsequently I collected some more with a specific SOTA theme resulting from QSOs with John @G4YSS’s activations using GX0OOO/P.
I mentioned Roy’s inspiring words to me the day I first tried activating with CW. Here are those words from back in May 2007. Roy certainly had the knack of inspiring people to continue and progress with their morse!
Roy must have had the best suffix for breaking the biggest pile-ups! I remrmber I could pick out that “SSH” even in those monstrous SOTA / WFF pile-ups back in 2011!
R.I.P. Roy - and thank you.