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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; [November 2025] If you use email, chances are great that you get a dose of spam every day. Is there a simple way to prevent the majority of it? Is it worth the effort – or is he value of email permanently tainted. One of the benefits of being retired is that I have [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ham Radio: A Valuable News Source Especially During Emergencies</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[[December 2024] “News” is sometimes hard to evaluate these days, as opinion and political biases can definitely cloud up issues – not to forget how social media seems to be a source for large numbers of people. But, just as there are still some respected news reporters working hard to get information out when disasters [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[[September 2024] The relationship between station engineer and the program director can be productive – or a constant battle. Each wants the station to be the best sound on the dial, but can the effort to provide solid, clean audio co-exist with being the loudest on the dial?  Your station has just spent a lot [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[[June 2024] The FCC executed agreements with state broadcast associations in 2003, which began the Alternative Broadcast Inspection Program, or ABIP. By 2010, a quarter of radio and half of the TV stations were participating, most receiving a Certificate of Compliance, which shielded them from most random inspections for three years.  More recently, participation in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[[September 2020] Troubleshooting is the engineer&#8217;s basic function. Eventually, given enough time, almost everything will break down. Then the “fun” begins. We have all troubleshot computers that provide less-than-useful error messages or that display problems which seem at first to be a condition contrary to fact. Here is one I just finished and thankfully it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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