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  @M0YNG Still better uptime than Bluesky. :)

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  @kr1st @Ea5iyl Splitting the difference between 73 and 88 is where YLRL's 33 comes from (despite, uh, not falling between those numbers). But I do like the happy natural world use. (At some point, all the sign offs might start to feel like fifteen competing standards. But I like how they have their own personalities.)

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  The next few days, when there will be no dogs and (hopefully) a good amount of downtime, would have been an excellent opportunity to assemble the QDX kit that I forgot to bring with me.

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  The QDX sits in a box, having crossed state lines since delivery, still unassembled, still mocking me.

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  OMG it should *not* have taken that long to download a PDF from the FCC. And what's with username and FRN being used as alternate identifiers? Argh.

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  Passed my General Class exam. (And did not, after all, need a printout of my license.)

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  I got a text asking for tariff payments, which I was convinced was phony. But now there's an email and Reddit, at least, says tariff charges come late (I am used to seeing Canadians wailing "I have to pay *how much* to ransom my trophy?") so I now have 17 more reasons to dislike the current president.

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  I realized that as of this week I have more amateur operating privileges than three astronauts who just slingshotted around the moon.

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  Managed to make 2/3 of my call sign legible to a net controller tonight.