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New Year’s Housekeeping

All the very best wishes to you and yours for a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year. As one of my new year’s resolutions, I need to clean up and mention a couple of topics that have been on the back burner for some time. There’s not much else going on at the moment, so this month will be a little shorter than usual.

Last November, I wrote about the ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference (DCC), and one of the topics there was the Internet Archive <>, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization behind the Wayback Machine. The IA is an online library of sorts, providing free access to anyone who wants it. Their collection includes a lot of everything, and their official mission is to provide “Universal

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