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		<title>Distracting oneself &#8211; options upon options</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Middle of Labor Day weekend finding time to start this post should be hard. But here I am, cuppa coffee the last vestiges of a nice bacon and eggs breakfast. Worth pointing out this was a fine breakfast with applewood smoked real bacon and free range eggs, accompanied by fried tomatoes from a friend’s garden, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Winlink on rather small QMX Hardware</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ARDOP WINLINK by DL2MAN A complete ARDOP modem and Winlink mail client that runs in a browser tab. No installation, no drivers, no companion software. Plug in a supported radio over USB and you are on the air. Built for QRP field and emergency use: install it once, and it keeps working with no internet connection at all — [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Unexpected month, no phone contacts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I hadn’t set out to do a month of no phone radio, but somehow I did. If I woke up in the night I’d run some digital, but purposeful radio time ended up being CW. The rhythm and feel of the K1USN SST and basic POTA CW contacts is becoming more familiar. Interestingly I can’t [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>New translation of “The Practical Telegraphist”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I saw this posted: My newly edited, annotated, and illustrated translation of Friedrich Gerke&#8217;s landmark 1851 book, “The Practical Telegraphist”, is now available in paperback on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HC3LR82G Friedrich Clemens Gerke, a German, invented what most call &#8220;Morse&#8221; code in 1848. His code was the basis of &#8220;International&#8221; Morse &#8211; which was used everywhere except [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Spammers and Scammers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At least once a day I get an email, text, or a robocall from a spammer/scammer. Actually the frequency often is several times daily. The current themes are: Invoicing or Authorization Requests for random crap, often anti-virus, crypto currency or small expensive electronics. Blind &#8220;Do you have a moment to chat?&#8221; probes. Good-samaritanism exploits like [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>About Sunsetting the DXCC Honor Roll</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As it is impossible to actually achieve DXCC Honor Roll without now unavailable legacy countries, Jeef KE9V recently postulated that the program needs to be revamped to current conditions. I&#8217;ve written about DXCC Honor Roll before: I posed to Jeff: Hey Jeff DX Honor Roll might just be sunsetted rather than revamped? The elderlies face [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>K9ZW 630m POTA and US Island Possibilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been looking at rolling the 630m setup into both POTA and US Island activations. In my second bath or coordination clearance requests, I included several that would work for POTA and for US Island. Because you need to have 10 QSOs to make a POTA activation recordable and 15 QSOs to first time activate [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Incoming 630m Transceiver</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Somehow I didn’t jump on this earlier, though when I first noticed the QDX-M its 630m model was not ready to order.  A 2200m version has been announced as the next version to be launched. QRP Labs dedicated 630m digital transceiver: https://qrp-labs.com/qdxm.html This will easier cover the WSPR and FST4 630m duties, though I’ll need [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stupid Amazon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Amazon and I are at odds over shipping. I have distinctly different Street and USPO Mailing Addresses. If you want to ship by FedEx/UPS/DHL/Amazon&#8217;s-own-trucks/courier you need to use my physical street address. If you want to mail me something you best use my mailing address, as 50% of the time it will be returned to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why limited photos with posts</title>
		<link>https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2026/08/31/why-limited-photos-with-posts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been asked &#8220;Why With Vary Frequency doesn&#8217;t have more photos &#38; graphics?&#8221; It is stalled decision on economics. WordPress plays a game where whenever they can charge a blogger they go for it hard and heavy, with certain features, themes, and storage are paid extras. I’ve been limiting photos for the simple reason that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>QRZ Map in Beta</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[QRZ.com has added a beta activity map function. Not certain when they made it available, but it is kind of interesting. Here are some screen shots from August 11th, 2026: https://rtqm.beta.qrz.com/qsomap 73 Steve K9ZW]]></description>
		
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		<title>Just ordered a SharkRF openSPOT4 Pro digital radio hotspot</title>
		<link>https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2026/08/30/just-ordered-a-sharkrf-openspot4-pro-digital-radio-hotspot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As enough WI9DX members are using this hotspot to catch my attention, I have ordered a SharkRF openSPOT4 unit. https://www.sharkrf.com/products/openspot4/ The spec says its compatible digital radio protocols and networks include: DMR (BrandMeister, DMRplus, DMR-MARC, DVSPh, XLX, TGIF and others) D-STAR (DCS, REF/DPlus, XRF/DExtra, XLX) System Fusion/C4FM (FCS, YSFReflector, XLX) NXDN(NXDNReflector) P25 (P25Reflector) POCSAG (DAPNET) [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>With Vary Frequency Hits 3000 Posts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just a stat, but one that when I started this I hadn&#8217;t anticipated would be reached. As I have not run out of things to write about, notes to share, or am in any way pausing in my amateur radio interests, the boog will continue. Looking forward some ponderings: WordPress is not as easy to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Relief by Recycling &#8211; Unsent QSLs Gone</title>
		<link>https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/relief-by-recycling-unsent-qsls-gone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today Vic KC9NWB helped me out by recycling roughly 15,000 preprinted but unsent QSL cards.  They were domestic cards, so they should never had gotten my print list, and I own that initial mistake. After printing my logs as submitted, QDure had put all of these cards into the Bureau system and as undeliverable domestic [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>AED Placement Planning</title>
		<link>https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/aed-placement-planning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the last year I have participated in several organizations&#8217; AED planning efforts, and I kept a running tally of notes on what recommendations they received from professionals, insurers and medical folks. Guidelines aggregated suggest: Focus on high risks areas or areas of large regular groups (examples: sanctuary, church hall, classroom areas, cafeterias, large gathering [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Monster Collins Station</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Taken from the Collins Collectors Association reflector: The Midwest Classic Radio Net held it&#8217;s annual get-together at the unique QTH of Danny W9DWS, a Collins AM Net regular. The event is held in honor of longtime host KI8BQ (SK) and features a picnic lunch and donation auction. Danny&#8217;s collection of vintage radios, neon signs, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Internet and Officialdom Filtering</title>
		<link>https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2026/08/27/internet-and-officialdom-filtering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[While we sometimes see mentions of items being &#8220;demoted&#8221; on the internet to suppress their messages, often is it hard to put your finger on anything specific. Recently I have spotted a few examples &#8211; these may or may not stand up to your research, as internet bubbles are neither ubiquitous nor durable.  They existed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Age of Excuses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From childhood perhaps you remember the hit &#8220;The Age of Aquarius&#8221; as a chart topper? These days our chart topper is &#8220;The Age of Excuses&#8221; perhaps. Why did my first class letter take 15 days to get from Dallas to Wisconsin? Excuses. Why am I working and those folk are doing nothing but collecting subsidies? [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Health Observations, Post Vaxx</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Noticing some post-vaxx health issues among myself, family, coworkers, and community: Get stung or a bite by an insect you get a major reaction. This is a change in folk who were not much bothered pre-covid.  Something has changed for a fair number of people, where they react my more profoundly to common stings. More [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Private Internet Club?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s New CAPTCHA Plans Will Create a Two-Tier Internet Only Accessible to Those With &#8216;Approved&#8217; Devices – The Daily Sceptic https://dailysceptic.org/2026/06/05/googles-new-captcha-plans-will-create-a-two-tier-internet-only-accessible-to-those-with-approved-devices/ Seems that basically in addition to Captcha and MFA, a planned &#8220;approved device list&#8221; will separate us from content. So where you use an &#8220;unapproved device&#8221; you will be shown a different internet than [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>RFI at Island QTH</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 23:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Across a few bands I suddenly have RFI this weekend. The Flex-8600 is a bit closer to a Spectrum Analyzer than a lot of radios, offering some pretty good visual coverage and reception. Something is puking a lot of RFI that I can pick up. Starting the usual process of elimination to search for low-hanging [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sherwood Adds Flex-8600</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many hams pay attention to the Rob Sherwood radio testing. Earlier this month he added a entry for the Flex-8600. http://www.sherweng.com/table.html &#8220;Updated 01 August 2026. Added Flex Radio 8600 + Maestro C&#8221; Not certain where the Maestro plays into the testing? That alone is enough of an obtuse statement to get me scratching my head. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Morse Code Stories &#8211; Roll-your-own</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The W8BH Morse Tutor allow one to put text files on an SD card and the Morse Tutor will sound them out after doing a text-to-Morse code translation. I expect I have the only Morse Tutor doing H P Lovecraft&#8217;s “The Call of Cthulhu” at the moment! https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cc.aspx was my text source. As the copyrights [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Countdown to Post Three-Thousand begins!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ten Nine Eight Seven Six&#8230;. We&#8217;re getting closer!! Entering a single digit countdown for 3000 blog posts about now. Have coped a lot of territory and met a lot of great people doing this blog. WordPress stats from the beginning are a bit hard to figure out, as they have changed measurement engines a few [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Work QTH woes &#8211; End of an Era</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My Work QTH depended on remotely accessing a Flex-6600M physically housed in a former quality control office in another building. Whether by LAN or if offsite by Internet, the setup worked fabulously for the first five years, then Work switched to a MSP (Managed Service Provider) who never figured out how to get their equipment [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dragging CW Out of Mental Fallow</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The usual chaos of life can fill your time driving out things that you had intended to practice. Daily CW drills is one thing that can get set aside. I did some while traveling for three week in July, then started back doing some once home. Returned to do some K1USN SST on-air events. Domestic [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>vBand USB Adapter vs CW Hotline as an Adapter vs Vail Adapter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are two officially supported vBand ways to connect, a few others not official supported ways. Their vBand USB Adapter works well, with the sidetone being created by your browser. There are lots of unofficial USB Adapters being sold. Reports are that a significant portion of these unofficial devices do not work with VBand. Some [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>QMX QRP &#8211; It works!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The QRP Labs QMX is so full of features that it took me a bit to get it up and going. Updated the Firmware to the latest 1.04 series. Was pretty easy once I stopped overthinking the process. I’m working through the modes and their settings, as there is a lot of big-rig features in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Small Noisy Cellphone Chargers suck. With the new cellphone that my work issued, came a courtesy kit of a screen protector, bump case and a rapid USB-C charger. Pretty much knew the stuff was cell carrier &#8220;give-away grade.&#8221; I replaced the crappy case with the commuter level Otterbox model right away, because the one issued [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Geeky Gift Building &#8211; Sweeping radar style ADS-B traffic display</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Scott W9JSB shared a picture of one of these he put together for his family, and offered to print a couple stand for me: https://github.com/yashmulgaonkar/FlightScnr Ordered the electronics from LilyGo, who both took a fairly long time between web order to end in my hand delivery, but then confirmed my FedEx street address only to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Another car show, placed (I think) but good stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’d been asked to attend the Coal Dock Park concours in Port Washington WI, so my 1975 Pinzgauer was one of a very small group in the Military Vehicle type class. As there were three awards (1st, 2nd and 3rd) supposedly we each got an award. [EDIT I subsequently learned that the Pinzgauer received another [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Retirement Book &#8211; The Unscheduled Life: Mastering the Art of Retirement, by Jim Lint</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve corresponded with the author for a long time, though our actual military careers didn&#8217;t actually cross.  I had promised a review months ago, and somehow let this linger in draft form. The TL;DR version is &#8220;Section One is meaty, and worth the purchase cost and time to read.  The rest should be skimmed for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pinzgauer picks up another trophy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our 1975 Steyr-Puch Pinzgauer 710m ex-Swiss Military truck surprised today with anothe First Place trophy in class. I didn’t really prepare the Pinzgauer and somehow got parked several rows off of all the other trucks.  Maybe that was the “secret sauce” to get a trophy? 73 Steve K9ZW]]></description>
		
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		<title>K9ZW 630m Station Build &#8211; a Few Steps Closer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As far as I know all of the major components for my 630m Station are here. I&#8217;ve also sourced all of the expected cables, connectors, adapters and hardware. The Flex-6600M has been updated from the old v3.x software it was on (the Work QTH effectively ended up without a usable internet connection, so it hadn&#8217;t [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wake Up Call?  Peer Aged Competitor Keels Over Dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the midst of public speaking, a competitor my age was stricken with a heart stoppage, and from the accounts I was told was dead before he hit the floor!  Not certain he even offered a final gasp before his heart dropped him stone cold dead in front of a now traumatized audience. A old [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Travel Internet CW</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Seems that internet CW while traveling is a challenge. While I could get the vBand Adapter to work with an iPad on a small ship, the latency was both profound and erratic. Not useful at all. I threw in a Vail Adapter at the last moment before leaving, only to find that the needed “Web [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pebble HF ordered</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This weekend I received this email: Pebble HF kit is ready for you to purchase! You are receiving this email because you signed up at https://pebblehf.com to get updates. If you do not want to get updates, you can click Unsubscribe at the bottom. Your Pebble HF is ready for purchase! It&#8217;s your turn to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Silly me, did not take inventory on order arrival woes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back in April my DigiKey order for my touch paddle project arrived and I left the parcel unopened until I was ready to start soldering. Alas the tape of a hundred BSS806N MOSFET transistors are AWOL. These transistors are on the packing list as packed, but not in the box. Already ordered replacements Even though [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why we had Radio Free Europe and how Ham Radio might fit in</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So many of the cross border information flows are being curtailed. From roughly 1993 to some ending in 2025/26 the various efforts of Radio Free Europe have been discontinued. Over time some things did change. The funding started to dry up. Mission creep happened, where resources were diverted to largely non-European targets. Agreements were made [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>SliceLogger</title>
		<link>https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2026/08/09/slicelogger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Time W4TME is at it again.  A slight rebranding and a beta released: https://github.com/tmellisonjr-create/SliceLogger [Edit &#8211; first general release:  https://github.com/tmellisonjr-create/SliceLogger/releases/tag/v1.0.0.0  ] I have not played with this yet. 73 Steve K9ZW]]></description>
		
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