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		<title>Hamvention 2026 &#8211; Planning a Quick Dash</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 12:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Planning a quick dash to Hamvention 2026 Meeting with relatives initially, then a spot of a work related visit before I hit the FlexRadio banquet Thursday evening.  Attending an Alpha Team only meeting earlier. Forums, are on my purvey, planning to catch the Balloon Launch folks speaking at 11PM Friday, maybe the Linux presentation at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Conversational Digital Mode Focus &#8211; PSK31 and others</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 12:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Talking with a lot of hams I have found a wide spread uptake of the FT8/4/2 all-scripted digital modes has caused a good number of them to question &#8220;is there something more?&#8221; One ham over a lunch meeting mentioned he had found JS8Call superior to the FT class of modes, simply because it offered the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Plain-Jane that is working well for me &#8211; CW Morse Paddle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 12:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Surprisingly the Morse code key I have been making the most contacts with is the CW Morse CNC Alum. Double Paddle with Magnetic Tension key I started the learning with. https://cwmorse.us/products/cnc-aluminum-pocket-double-paddle-key-with-magnet-tension?variant=46026193174787 https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/slow-gear-arrives-key-and-keyer-from-cw-morse/ Simple key, with the only pretenses being its red anodized paddles. It took me a bit to figure out how to adjust the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>SmartSDR for macOS &#8211; RTTY, PSK, SSTV, CW and FT8/FT4</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 13:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Not always widely known, the SmartSDR macOS (Apple computer) has some neat parts integrated within. The macOS (and iOS) versions are collaborative efforts and not directly done by FlexRadio Systems themselves. First in SmartSDR for macOS and iOS, there are &#8220;Modes&#8221; which act like &#8220;Super Profiles&#8221; switch much of the radio settings to work that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Just Jamming!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 12:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Getting Jammed never was so easy. ESP32-BlueJammer (Bluetooth jammer, BLE jammer, WiFi jammer, RC jammer) by Emensta disrupts various devices using an ESP32 and nRF24 modules, causing plenty of noise and sending unnecessary packets (DoS). https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/04/09/esp32-bluejammer-disrupts-various-devices-using-esp32-and-nrf24-modules/ https://github.com/EmenstaNougat/ESP32-BlueJammer?tab=readme-ov-file While the actual use of these lack legality, there may be situations where you face being jammed.  So [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ideas of dealing with 15,000 Printed QSL Cards?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 12:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m stumped. The Printed QSL card debacle has left me short of ideas on what to do with the 15,000 USA domestic QSL cards that ended up in my lap. These cards were printed Bureau-Style with all of the QSO information, and really don&#8217;t have a space for an address label. Is there a way [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Separating &#8220;News&#8221; from Propaganda</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve borrowed some principles from:  https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/external-bleeding-thursday-january &#8220;When reading this type of ‘news’ critically, balance is the first thing you should look for. Here’s the formula: the articles report a scrap of actual news (e.g., the economy is booming), and then round up several “experts” to tell readers what to think about the news. If the “expert” [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Go see &#8220;Project Hail Mary&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lots of Tech and Sci-Fi Tech, but alas no ham radio. If you grew up with Forbidden Planet, Lost in Space, ET, Star Trek, 2001, Robinson Caruso on Mars, and the like, well you are a prime candidate to resonate with Project Hail Mary. The XYL also thought it fabulous. Unfortunately it is hard to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Recommendations for a Ham Radio Gear Appraiser &#8211; KF0COM</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Under the tax code, donations of &#8220;things&#8221; that tally over $5,000 to an single charity requires some added documentation. The tax code &#8220;stacks&#8221; you donations to a single charity to prevent people from simply breaking up a donation into parts to avoid the $5,000-threshold. Often you need a certified appraisal, and that appraiser needs to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>SmartSDR v4.2.18 dropped</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few minutes ago. This one needs users to take a few extra steps to avoid gumming up the works. New drivers, DAX (DAX2), ARM platform support, and more! Read the release notes first. Make a backup of your stuff. Make a backup of your old Profiles. Download v4.2.18 Then uninstall previous versions of SmartSDR [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Boat Anchors &#8211; You Need Spare Tubes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Tube based radios often go for decades before they lose a tube, but when a tube is down, the rig is down. So I have typically replaced all of the tubes when I get a radio sorted out, AND put in my supplies a second set of replacement tubes. I have two tube-based Collins [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How you can prevent leaving an unsatisfactory Amateur Radio legacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How you can prevent leaving an unsatisfactory Amateur Radio legacy &#8211; okay, originally I used the word &#8220;sour&#8221; for &#8220;unsatisfactory&#8221; as I was reflecting on various hams I know who are leaving a trail of negativity behind them as the near the time they will become SK (Silent Keys, or in non-ham talk &#8220;dead&#8221;). One [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Within Your Means</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I know people that no matter how much money they earn or are gifted, that they will always be poor. Their expectations are not all that huge, but their willingness to wait to accumulate the resources they need is sunk by uncontrolled &#8220;got to have it now&#8221; attitudes. Perhaps they see people they consider peers [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Working on Settings for CW and N1MM</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve listened more than transmitted during the K1USN Slow Speed Tests (SST). Kind of to be expected as learning to copy consistently at a reasonable speed is my big challenge. Taking the CW Ops folk’s “use N1MM” recommendation has simultaneously started me on that learning curve. Of course I didn’t get much of anything configured [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Meshtastic to Meshcore to Meshcore.io</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[to the main fork of &#160; &#160; I’ve not much joy with Meshtastic.  Here is the Meshtastic link: https://meshtastic.org/ Recently I learned that the local guys are largely focused on Meshcore. So I missed their move to a different system. Peers projects on largely similar hardware, Meshtastic has an every node is a repeater, just [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>If you need an RF Sampler for the new SmartSDR features</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Years back I had helped George W9EVT with some of Tyler Stampfli KA0KA sampling gear, and seeing that people are wanting to add samplers to get some of the new features in SmartSDR v4.2 to work, I found that Tyler KA0KA has a lot going: https://www.cleanrf.com/products.html Please remember that with SmartSDR the 8000 models can [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>FlexRadio SmartSDR v4.2  &#8211; What You Need to Do to Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[FlexRadio also dropped a How-To video on planning and doing the update to SmartSDR 4.2 SmartSDR DAX 4.2 &#8211; New Performance Changes &#8211; ***User Actions Required*** https://youtu.be/qBsPUwv_uAw?si=8JZ7g01UkuHvPxJX Since the CAT is out of the bag (and DAX2 as well) I will mention that this 4.2 simply rocks.  I&#8217;ve made hundreds of QSOs split between SSB, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>FlexRadio SmartSDR v4.2 Preview Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[FlexRadio dropped a teaser video a few minutes ago. They have so much to tell that the video runs about 27 minutes! SmartSDR v4.2 Feature Update &#38; DAX2 changes https://youtu.be/p70E0XEqb2E?si=NwWc3eZuczaZTflf 73 Steve K9ZW]]></description>
		
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		<title>Flowers &#8211; Oh yeah!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The daffodils are finally out in quantity.  Here is a single bunch, and we have hundreds of bunches on the property. This is not the latest, but right they for a delayed flowering. With all the rain and a case of the &#8220;crud&#8221; I have more yard work to catch up with before more panoramic [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>QRP Dummy Load Found, along with other Neat Stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back in 2012 I had assembled a then Hendricks QRP Dummy Load https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/building-things-qrp-gear-dummy-load-antenna-tuner-and-qrpometer/ and between the various events, house move, and other life adventures much of the QRP kit was AWOL. Actually is was safely stored away in transport boxes never meant to be much more than a smile shifting places sort of thing. I&#8217;ll [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pumping Sumping &#8211; Replace the Lot of Them!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Seems both the Island QTH and the Home QTH sump pumps have a way of communicating. The Island pump was a dual-pump setup where the higher pump was a 12vdc pump with a big marine-type battery. The idea was if the power went out you had hours of 12vdc pump to fall back on. Well [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Trimming some excess Good Stuff &#8211; For Sale Alert</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Have a couple things going here &#8211; the Work QTH is being reconfigured or perhaps mothballed. So that Flex-6600M will be sold. My hamshack is brimming with unused gear, and heading out will be: a back-up Flex-6700 that basically is NOS, a primo Alpha-78 amp, the unused King Conversions 6m amp, a couple of Palstar [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Need a bit of Email Help &#8211; Group of Emails to Something Word-Processor Ready</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Looking for some Pro-Tips &#8211; I have an extensive email chain that needs to be copied into something Word Processor compatible. Stems from a course developed with the Late Dr Norman Powell about 12 years ago that I have been asked to run again. This time around teaching I am aiming to put the material [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Selective-Collective Regurgitations are not Creative Intelligence in AI</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many people are laying that Artificial Intelligence is at the cusp of getting past selective-collective regurgitations. When pushed they then tell you that the feel it coming. Somehow that translated into &#8220;knowing it is going to happen&#8221; for these folks. The bigger the dataset, the greater the gee-wiz response we will have to what AI [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>CW Next Step &#8211; Fundamentals Class</title>
		<link>https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2026/04/18/cw-next-step-fundamentals-class/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Starting the next level of CW training, and I may be a bit AWOL in terms of posting here. The Course Sequence is Basic &#8211; Fundamentals &#8211; Intermediate &#8211; Advanced, with end goals in terms of WPM (Words Per Minute) of 6+, 10+, 20+ and 30+ WPM at the end of each level. One of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Camaraderie, Why we do Ham Radio</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is the rare radio amateur who works in solitude.  They don&#8217;t setup gear to simply broadcast something never expecting a return. Rather it is the opposite. The multi-character communication between us.  We speak of QSOs &#8211; a two-way dialogue.  We participate in nets, activations, contests and field day.  All feature other people. We reach [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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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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