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		<title>Radio at the W9EVT (SK) Ham Shack</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 22:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Met with Dave N9JDZ, Jeff KD0TNH, Tom WA0USA and Susan (George W9EVT’s XYL) to review the state of affairs in the Greengate ham shack. Dave N9JDZ has done an awesome job of keeping things going with his periodic island work visits. I’d venture more is operational now than at most other times. Since the Hilberling [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Taking the CX Athena out for a couple runs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My 1981 Citroen CX Athena 5-speed turned heads as I took it for several long runs last week. This car is very low mileage, having covered less than 750 miles/year. I had the chance to let a now doctor I knew from back in high school have a go driving this CX. He owns other [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Settlers in my area</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Been traveling some back roads where old monuments often are preserved.  Many of these monuments reflect immigration to Wisconsin. Dutch Settlers The people from areas that latter became the Netherlands (which Americans tend to label &#8220;Dutch&#8221;) settled in several places in Wisconsin. These Dutch people are an important part of the Wisconsin history.  Some are [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What is up at KM3KM?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Amps and Tuner are either discontinued or out of stock. https://km3km.com/ The have posted on some places that you can order a fully prepaid Mercury LUX 1500w amp, with delivery a couple months down the road, yet in the last week they have discontinued the Mercury IIIS amp and Mercury ATS tuner. There is another [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Another Citroen &#8211; a sort of QRP-car</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Inbound to me is another Citroen, a fully restored 2CV6 Charleston Grey-on-Grey car. Should arrive first full week in October. My wife already has an outstanding 2CV6 and it has been our Washington Island car. Easy to take care off, frugal, inexpensive parts, and lots of fun to drive. This particular car comes named &#8220;Henri&#8221; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Open question on Internet connected radio security</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[IoT devices present a novel challenge to consumer security. There are lots of these articles out there, ranging from man-on-the-street understandable to deep tech dives.  As an example of a somewhat readable one: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/ So apply this to connected radios?  What are the risks? In the case of FlexRadio they had a security minded approach [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>QMX+ Transceiver Addition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been playing with the smaller portable QRP Labs QMX radio for a while, and when I saw that Bill W3WJ had a new QRP Labs QMX+ 160-6m all-mode transceiver available for immediate delivery, well I couldn&#8217;t resist. Largely the QMX+ is a QMX with added band coverage (12 bands vs 5) and a revised [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thoughts about changing Ham Interests in Old Stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[https://thesilicongraybeard.blogspot.com/2026/08/part-of-adult-conversation-about.html &#8220;Anybody been to any hamfests lately? There&#8217;s a thread going around on public media like YouTube that paints a dim picture of the market for used gear, saying that prices have fallen off dramatically for popular classic radios from the last century. We haven&#8217;t been to a hamfest in a couple of years, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Working on my CW Work-Flow</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am trying to see if I can incrementally improve my CW performance.  I am finding QSOs with Rhythm possible and anything Conversational/Free Form a magnitude more difficult. To be honest I often listen to the preceding QSO exchanges to figure some of the parts out, the name, state or my likely number I will [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Learned incompetence, dealing with the young</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last month at a car show, I watched the organizers chase down a couple of 10-12 year sorts racing their bicycles among the $1m exotic cars, only to have one wannabe tyke on a bike scream loudly “get your hands of my bike!” Little &#8220;Mr Mouth&#8221; went quickly quiet when a half dozen men converged, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Watching the People in the Know</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When you don&#8217;t have access to raw information, the secondary technique of observing the actions of those with better primary information access can be useful. What are those &#8220;in the know&#8221; doing? That could be the only indicator one receives before the mitigation-period has expired. We all know to watch the birds and the wildlife [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>More Bumblebees Sunday &#8211; FOBB</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have number 134 if I can break away to operate. 18SEP26 UPDATE: ONLY TWO DAYS until the September Fall FOBB !!!  You can sign up to be a Bumblebee all the way up to September 20th.   We presently have 127 Bumblebees signed up.  So far, there will be Bumblebees in 42 different State/Province/Countries (SPC). [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Be Ready! A Better Way to Security and Preparedness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With all of the claims that False Flag AI event is likely just in time to affect the upcoming elections, that strong reminder that &#8220;Anytime you think some part of infrastructure is a bedrock, an earthquake will change your mind!&#8221; One set of predictions going around is that an AI-based attack will mess with or [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wisconsin POTA Annual Event &#8211; 19SEP26</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[EDIT &#8211; Seems like Nature had her own ideas about my &#8220;Activator&#8221; plans, as it is already raining and the rain is not expected to clear until the wee hours on Sunday. The sit-at-a-picnic-table with all your gear on the picnic table style of operation I planned isn&#8217;t going to work in the rain. So [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>W9DXCC 2026 Recap</title>
		<link>https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/w9dxcc-2026-recap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I attended the W9DXCC University and Event/Banquet on 11th and 12th September 2026 in Naperville Illinois.  Thought I would put together a few notes and impressions. Drive down Thursday early evening: Traveled down the three hour plus 190 mile drive Thursday evening September 10th. The 8am DX/Contest University start the next day would have been [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Trying another FlexRadio Transceiver Controller &#8211; CTR2-Max-5</title>
		<link>https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2026/09/16/trying-another-flexradio-transceiver-controller-ctr2-max-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ordered a CTR2-Max-5 from Lynovation. As I finished this post my tracking number arrived! https://ctr2.lynovation.com/product/ctr2-max-5/ https://ctr2.lynovation.com/ CTR2-Max-5 (Max) is the latest addition to the CTR2 controller family. It has the same functionality as CTR2-Quad in that it supports Bluetooth and USB MIDI control and works with many radio control apps like SmartSDR for iOS/MacOS, AetherSDR, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Atypical Pneumonia &#8211; an Overseas Perspective</title>
		<link>https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2026/09/16/atypical-pneumonia-an-overseas-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For years I have had several sources of translated curated and summarized former Eastern Block science literature. One that caught my eye was: &#8220;Atypical&#8221; pneumonia, which began to plague us since 2006, may be the result of infections with various forms of parasites, some of which are created specifically, using genetic modifications of previous species. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Quick K9ZW 630m Station Rundown</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A quick rundown of the 630m station setup (and why with so many parts it is transportable vs truly portable): Framework 13 Laptop does the IT duties Flex-6600M does both 630m and 2200m natively. K8PD Band Pass Filter (because I wanted one in case I swap the Flex for something else) Multus-SDR 200w 630m MF [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stepping from the Shadows &#8211; Matching Donations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Having quietly done matching contributions to radio clubs I wanted to support, it was hard to remain in the shadows. I had picked matching because I was to support what &#8220;WE&#8221; as a group were willing to commit to do, rather than disrupt things by imposing my design.  I also recognized that clubs do projects [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>About Firearms in Church &#8211; It is a Tradition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This summer the congregation we attend was faced with an attempted bully-job to force banning firearms from the church&#8217;s property. The most vocal advocate used that highly immature stance that the church council had to summarily enact their ban or they would quit.  Ugly, tense and an uncalled for outburst. That our congregation does a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Morserino Version 9.0 released</title>
		<link>https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2026/09/13/morserino-version-9-0-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 20:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Received this notice and did the updates &#8211; the Morserino project is very active: [Special] [morserino] #Version 9.0 released This is really a major release &#8211; we never had that many changes and fixes in a single release before. Easiest install (after the install, you are pointed to the latest manual(s)): https://www.morserino.info/install.html New Configuration Tool [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Trackable Radio You &#8211; Your On-Air PIB</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[PIB is &#8220;Personally Identifiable Behavior&#8221; which is the predictable nature of your usual &#8220;modus operandi&#8221; (how you do things and how you respond). As part of your PIB you have a Ham Radio segment if you are a licensee or operator. Everything from Spots, Reverse Beacon, IoT things if you are using an IoT connected [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Vail Summit Test Unit Ordered</title>
		<link>https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2026/09/12/vail-summit-test-unit-ordered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve ordered a test unit &#8220;Vail Summit&#8221; which should be here later in the month. https://vailadapter.com/summit &#8220;A self-contained ham radio companion with a 4-inch display, integrated 47-key keyboard, built-in WiFi, and Bluetooth 5. Learn CW with the built-in course, study for your license exams, check POTA spots and satellite passes in the field, monitor band [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Unrecognized Inflation, Tariff Gouging Games, and Economic Warfare</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some recent purchases left me scratching my head. A small ceramic generic bearing, which has priced out at about $9.50 for two delivered 2 years ago is now $15 for two delivered. These are supposedly domestically made, so tariffs are not involved. Small peanuts, so not worth a lot of shopping, but if I need [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>DXter &#8211; Integrated Remote Radio</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[DXter (pronounced “Dexter”) was introduced at the W9DCC. A sort of “command and control” suite to operate RiB units (Radio in Box) to allow multiple participants to experience the DX-end of DXing. Gregg W6IZT used Claude-AI to work out a package that integrates operations and management of a RiB. While most of these functions were [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>In Remembrance</title>
		<link>https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/in-remembrance-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Twenty-Five years ago Religious Terrorists inflicted a blow on the USA. I am certain many remember where they were that day. When I was a child I remembered being shuffled off to my maternal grandparents when President Kennedy was killed. I remember 20th July 1969 watching the Apollo 11 Eagle landing on the moon, watching [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>K1USN SSO version of the SST &#8211; 2nd Friday of September</title>
		<link>https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2026/09/10/k1usn-sso-version-of-the-sst-2nd-friday-of-september/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t know about this until Pi K1RV sent a message to the LICW reflector: I want everyone to be aware that this Friday, Sept 11, we have our annual K1USN SST Open which runs for a full four hour period in place of the one hour SST. Full details are available here &#8211; https://www.k1usn.com/sso_rules.html [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Using Grok Build for Radio Projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Stew N8VET posted on his Groups.io Multus-SDR group some quick instructions on using Grok Build for software/firmware and replacement chip designing: Here is the basics to set up Grok Build from free version to pay. Grok Build (the terminal coding agent / CLI) is available to try for free with usage limits. Higher/full limits come [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>CW Medium Speed Test</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Though CW Ops instructors had mentioned the MST (Medium Speed Test) I hadn&#8217;t heard it on the air until Labor Day. Runs an hour each start time. The local times being 8AM, 2PM and 10PM Central Daylight-Savings Time on Mondays usually are times I would be doing something else. I caught the middle session, listened [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>In the Noise</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Taken from an email conversation: In the modern digital age, the field has expanded exponentially, encompassing a wide array of sophisticated techniques designed to operate within the noise of the global Internet. Digital steganography allows for the embedding of&#8230; While we were discussing a particular aspect, as my buddy is into Numbers Stations, the idea [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lower QRZ confirmation percentage for CW QSOs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My logged CW QSOs have a lower rate of confirmation on QRZ.com. Overall I have about 80% of all QSOs logged confirmed at QRZ.com But CW contacts are confirming at only 21%. Am I doing something wrong that contacts end up not confirmable? Or is QRZ.com not the place to get your CW contacts confirmed? [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>When the Hired Managers have too much control &#8211; local Medical Provider summarily stops taking Insurance</title>
		<link>https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/when-the-hired-managers-have-too-much-control-local-medical-provider-summarily-stops-taking-insurance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve used the same vision provider since childhood, excepting when I lived away and a couple year period where previous clinic managers got crossways with insurances for a year. That stupid period became a purge both ways, as they essentially dismissed a significant portion of their clients while the eye doctor staff was aging-out of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>When life’s Math won’t Math for You</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A substack I get, had the tasty phrase &#8220;When life’s Math won’t Math for You?&#8221; catch my eye. &#8220;When life’s Math won’t Math for You&#8221; so sums up modern life&#8217;s fiscal situation for many. The difficult truth is that Millennials and Zoomers were sold a lie. They were promised that, if they kept up their [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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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>
		<link>https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2026/09/05/unexpected-month-no-phone-contacts/</link>
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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>
		<link>https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/spammers-and-scammers/</link>
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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>
		<link>https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2026/09/03/about-sunsetting-the-dxcc-honor-roll/</link>
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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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