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		<title>Rethinking Radio Power Backup with the Aurora</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rethinking Radio Power Backup with the Aurora AU-520M as I had intended to plug it into my rackmount CyberPower CP1500PFCRM2U UPS Battery Backup and Surge Protector. My calculations is the Battery in the surge protector/UPS would hold the Aurora at full power transmit for over ten minutes, and at normal duty cycle perhaps twice that. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Trashed Half of My Draft Posts &#8211; Yeah!  Ditto on my Books to be Read bookshelf.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Trashed about half of my draft posts, as even to me they felt uninspired and a waste of bandwidth. Or they were near-duplicates of what I have written about before. Next I plan to cut what drafts are left by another 40-60% &#8211; maybe 15 or so will make the it past the purge. Recently [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>First Flowers &#8211; 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The XYL tracks this. For 2026 the daffodils popped on April 13, which is ten days before the 2025 date but also ten days after the earliest she has recorded. So right in the middle. Crocuses came out a few days earlier, but she hasn&#8217;t tracked the dates those flower each year. 73 Steve K9ZW]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thinking Ahead – Series Summary for an Amateur Radio Operator</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a Ham or am I? When to be noticed and when to be unnoticed, and much much more! I&#8217;m drawing this series to an end. In summary, like the song The Gambler, you have to know when to hold them, and know when to fold them, in our case in the visibility traits of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Clunk clunk. Stuff happens</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Been a few extra things to do as of late. A sudden very heavy rainstorm flooded both our yard at home and island place yard. Island basement took a minor bit of water, while our lower patio at home flood enough to break out the pumps. Sump pumps must have been conferring to sudden need [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Your World is Filtered</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Most of us have noticed the Internet-Bubble where the ads presented to us have been tailored based on our purchases and other criteria. Seems that it is a lot more than ads though, as search results, website availability and basically our entire world is being tailored for various purposes. Filtering-out or suppressing is pretty common. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fahnestock Clips from W5SWL</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fahnestock Clips are those springy-clippy old school connectors that we&#8217;ve all seen, but few were told what they were called. Apparently there are only a few sources for these clips today, as the equipment is vintage gear kept in production. The W5SWL Electronics Shop usually has them available. (I shamelessly borrowed one of the their [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Working on a Bicycle Mobile use-case for my QMX setup</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The very light QMX radio simple begs consideration if I could operate it while bicycling. Certainly the Go-Kit is light enough to take along, but could I operate while pushing the pedals? Usually you will find me out on a Hase recumbent bike*, which easily can take a couple of pounds of radio gear and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>And so it starts! First steps in CW</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Making steady CW progress here. Little by little! Ran out of my reasons why I should just listen and got a CW contact during Friday’s K1USN SST (Slow Speed Test) Here is what I’d shared with my practice buddies: — There were some people on 20m 14.0367 area who were doing K1USN SST slow speed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stupid at the Speed of Light</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Seeing a lot of &#8220;Instant Investigations, Adjudications and Responses&#8221; in our world that are quickly overturned once methodical mind analyze the issue. The media &#38; internet seems to lead the way to these rushed assessments. Almost every possible Logical Fallacy is at play. The timeframes are irresponsibly too short to even pretend to be working [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Nomograms Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nomograms can help you solve complex problems rapidly and assuredly https://lefakkomies.github.io/pynomo-doc/introduction/introduction.html#what-is-a-nomogram-and-why-would-it-interest-me I&#8217;ve spoke about this sort of use years ago, but the preparation of the charts put me off. https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/making-it-all-add-up-dont-depend-on-a-calculator/ Thinking of putting several common ham radio problems into an AI engine to produce nomograms I can use. RF exposure charts, antenna predictions (simplified Smith [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Portable Morse Paddle &#8211;  WA3RNC built VK3IL</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[VK3IL designed Pressure Sensitive Paddle as built by WA3RNC is by far the lightest of the portable paddles I have found. John WA3RNC maintains an eBay store selling these units: https://www.ebay.com/sch/48706/i.html?item=187197772673&#38;_ssn=wa3rnc He also his his own website where things are a couple bucks cheaper (less the eBay cut?) at:  https://www.wa3rnc.com/store/ I am under the impression [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Now that is an Awesome Detector</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news is full of the account of rescuing a downed Weapons Officer located by technical tools. One of the tools was called &#8220;Ghost Murmur&#8221; utilizing atomic level impurities in synthetic diamonds combined with Artificial Intelligence processing to detect the magnetic signature of the downed pilot. We are in a hobby where we have used [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thirty Second Hot Takes vs Life Longevity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Main Stream Media (MSM) is leading the partisan drumbeat that immediacy is more important than longevity. Truly the MSM 30-second takes, usually mouthed by their selected narrow group of naysayer &#8220;pundits&#8221; with nothing offer in the balance, is propaganda. It is definitely unsupportive of the Current Administration, and usually supportive everything anti-Current Administration. But [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Enough Separation for Diversity? Home QTH</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Number 1 is the Home QTH’s Flagpole Vertical antenna and Number 2 is the big Log Periodic Antenna’s tower.  The Hamshack is not actually in the main house, and the dashed lines are the general layout of the buried feedline conduits. I need to confirm the spacing distance for my calculations, though it looks to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Parts Coming Together &#8211; QMX-Based Go-Kit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The parts are starting to come together for my QMX-based go kit. Transceiver (the QRP-Labs QMX) &#8211; here Power cable (a 12.0v cable) &#8211; here Power Bank &#8211; here QMX stand/cover (from eBay) &#8211; here Microphone &#8211; here Microphone adaptor &#8211; here Speaker, rechargeable &#8211; here Headset &#8211; one set is here, need to order [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Portable Morse Key &#8211; Te-Ne-Ke</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Te-Ne-Ke is the brainchild of Boyd NE8KE, a ham said to now be in his 90s. The keys are made by his local club and sold there: https://w8cso.org/te-ne-ke/ This is a somewhat unconventional approach to a key. The touch pieces are spring stock that flexes enough to slide to make contact. The body is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Easter Reflections &#8211; Pause in Posts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I won&#8217;t release any posts on Easter. Planning to attend church both this evening (Saturday) for the Easter Vigil service, and church on Easter itself. Then we will be hosting for a family Easter gathering and meal. Wishing you all the best as you mark the occasion. 73 Steve K9ZW]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dealing with Manipulative People</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We all have to navigate through the trials of dealing with manipulative people. Some try to make everything transactional.  If you want me to do this, you need to &#8220;pay for it&#8221; in either an actual payment or in some action they want. Some think they have a right to judge and demand from you, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>If you are UK or EU your Sundays may become a &#8220;Radio Day&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rumbles are that the UK and the EU may be discouraging Sunday driving to save fuel. The politics bore me, but the supply/demand part is basic economics. If the fuel is in short supply demand ends up dropping off through pricing or other constraints. Big question beyond the &#8220;Please leave your cars home so we [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>WI9DX Club looking into 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Washington Island WI9DX Club ends up being a bit seasonal, given that only a handful of the active member overwinter on the island. Outside antenna work pretty much stops for the winter for those who do overwinter or visit.  The winter storms ravish what antennas you do have up. The main &#8220;nice season&#8221; is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>QR-Menus &#8211; a Stand Up and Leave Notice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m simply not doing QR menus. Don’t care if they are the whole menu, just drinks or whatever. Not doing them. When I go into a restaurant it isn’t to get cozy with my smartphone! And I’m not scrolling for options like buying my dog treats online from some website. Fortunately my XYL is of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Binaural Experiments &#8211; Gnaurel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Radio friends had asked me about this. I had heard binaural examples, training tapes, and even warning systems in the past, but the tools to try much of this oneself seemed ellusive. Here are the links they shared: https://gnaural.net/ https://gnaural.sourceforge.net/ In our radio world binaural audio comes into play in the diversity reception area.  There [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>As Hams do we sometimes miss our chance to help?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My recent brief post about our local club&#8217;s difficulties with a Yaesu Wires major version upgrade attracted a number of comments and emails. Most of these comments were not suitable to post. They were combination of taunts, personal insults and denial.  The worst were posted without callsigns. Silly stuff. And exactly zero of the comments [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Such a Weird Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Once April Fools was about a shared Good Joke, something Incredulous, or something that leaves everyone in smiles, April Fools has evolved into an annual Mean Girls sort of event, where someone gets left in tears. Shock humor has substituted for cleverness. Where the only &#8220;hurting&#8221; should be that the &#8220;teased&#8221; has laughed with you [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Energy and Ham Radio</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Did some online comparisons with English and German hams this morning. Bring all the reported costs into US Dollars per US Gallon, here is what the report was: Germany $10.70/US Gallon England $8.50/US Gallon USA $3.90/US Gallon Today USA $2.70/US Gallon Six Weeks Back We didn&#8217;t have enough time and none of us had our [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Portable Morse Key &#8211; CW Morse SP4</title>
		<link>https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2026/03/31/portable-morse-key-cw-morse-sp4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A great candidate in my very light Morse code key quest is the CW Morse SP4 https://cwmorse.us/products/sp4-sota-pota-cw-morse-magnetic-paddle Some reviews mention this key has the cable wired in, but mine has the usual 1/8 inch jack. Give the choice I’d rather have the jack and separate cable. As it arrived it was not very usable, as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>More sorting out &#8211; nibbling at the edges</title>
		<link>https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2026/03/30/more-sorting-out-nibbling-at-the-edges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve been practicing Morse Code and participating in the CW Ops Academy from our home’s “correspondence office.” The room is small and has a very limited view of outside, making it not the space where I want to spend lots of time. This is a small office where all of the IT stuff lives in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Enough Separation for Diversity? Island QTH</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Number 1 is the Island QTH’s Flagpole Vertical antenna and Number 2 is the Log Periodic Antenna’s tower. I need to confirm the spacing distance for my calculations, though it looks to be about 300-330 feet. Time for some testing and modeling. My thoughts are to use the Flagpole Vertical as the RX-side of a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Undermining Your Team in Mid-Competition is Bad JuJu</title>
		<link>https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2026/03/28/undermining-your-team-in-mid-competition-is-bad-juju/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some of my old colleagues have settled into a arm-quarterback mode of curmudgeonship. They pontificate suggesting they have somehow gleaned a superior insight from the same fog-of-war information we all have received. What a******s they are. First outside of annoying their former peers, their pontification has no use. No axis-of-influence. Second is they are only [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Casting a Pebble &#8211; HF Transceiver that is!</title>
		<link>https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/casting-a-pebble-hf-transceiver-that-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Pebble HF is an ultra-affordable, ultra-portable HF radio kit for anyone to get into HF amateur radio.&#8221; Single-band (20m or 40m) all-mode 1w/5w (depends on power source) 14-components kit targeted for under $50. What is there not to like? https://pebblehf.com/ Got my name on the list. 73 Steve K9ZW]]></description>
		
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		<title>Creating Durable Systems &#8211; Redundancy/Backups and Planned Work-Arounds for Choke Point Components</title>
		<link>https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/creating-durable-systems-redundancy-backups-and-planned-work-arounds-for-choke-point-components/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Creating Durable Systems within the K9ZW Main QTH Shack is a series started with:  https://wp.me/p2XN8-1Sc The Redundancy/Backups and Planned Work-Arounds for Choke Point Components system can be broken down further: Main Equipment &#8211; all have a backup unit, mostly stored at the Home QTH.  If needed one of the secondary QTHs could be cannibalized to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Yaesu Screws Up Wires-X</title>
		<link>https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/yaesu-screws-up-wires-x/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here is the TMI TL;DR version: Yaesu pushed a Wires-X update to version 2.0 New v2.0 is IPv6 only, dropping IPv4 support of sub-v2.0 Wires-X releases Networks and Systems that updated to v2.0 found other big show-stopper issues with the update, and started reverting to v1.57 In the process they lost connectivity to those who [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Secret Society of BBS Sysops</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Secret Society of BBS Sysops is a not-so-secret education, certification and community for BBS Sysops that is a brainchild of a radio amateur in England. There are four tiers of study &#38; exams: Initiate Operator Adept Master Each level includes study/examination in multiple areas related to BBS History, Technology, Culture and Future. As I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Guess I need to use this &#8211; N1MM Logger</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It has mostly been sloth that has kept me from doing much more than playing around with the N1MM Logger. https://n1mmwp.hamdocs.com/ If you go back enough years perhaps N1MM was a bit more of a learning curve than I wanted to take on. With time I&#8217;d like to think N1MM and I both got better [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Are you Really Prepared for the Expectable?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two recent events caught my eye: Southeast of England without running water for days (as many as 100,000 homes may have been affected) Major portions of Berlin Germany without electrical power for more than five days. And I wondered, am I really prepared for a couple week outage or no-travel type eventuality? Are you? These [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Island QTH Amp and Progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A year back, on our first Ireland/England trip of 2025, Washington Island lost power for five days while having quite a storm. With our power out we had a lot of problems, the single most disappointing was losing to water in the basement the island 4o3a PGXL solid state amp. Just couldn’t be saved. By [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Shack Computer Progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Initially delayed as skidsteer snow removal needed to be done, I got a later start on the computer swap than planned. Getting the monitors onto the dual monitor base was reasonable. The new stand is not an office trophy design, rather something you might see in a lab. Disassembly was easy, the cleaning needed not [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Making the swap &#8211; Hamshack Computer Changeover Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have been putting off doing the changeover. The new computer has been ready for 15 months, a mid-level gaming box built by my middle son. This Win11 Pro build features a Ryzen 9 5900X 12-core processor, 64 GB RAM, a Radeon RX-580 graphics card, built on a Phantom Gaming B550 motherboard. Storage includes a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Not in the same class &#8211; Modern Oscars take a Dive</title>
		<link>https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/not-in-the-same-class-modern-oscars-take-a-dive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This year’s Oscar best film winner does have some amateur radio gear featured. That is perhaps the best part. Somehow “Battles” as the have nicknamed it, falls very far short of the Forest Gump, Platoon, Out of Africa…. grade of movies. Without the award Battles would maybe make a few appearances in a flight movie [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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