Autumn's Support Your Parks weekend is still echoing through the logs, so we lead with field reports and a clever new planning tool for activators. Elsewhere there's antenna homebrew, SDR console software, renewal gremlins at the payment point, and the small indignities of a well-worn contest keyboard.

In today’s roundup

• A Comedy of Errors: POTA’s Support Your Parks – Autumn in the Clearwater National Forest — QRPer
  Randy (K7TQ) closes out his 2026 Support Your Parks grand slam with an autumn Clearwater activation that, per the title, didn't go entirely to plan.
• FieldQTH: A New Planning Map with Park Boundaries — QRPer
  Miguel (LX1MDA) built FieldQTH to show actual park boundaries instead of a single POTA dot, solving a familiar headache for anyone who's parked outside the line.
• Top Amateur Radio Websites - Issue 2642 — The DXZone
  This week's DXZone roundup leans practical, with VHF/UHF Yagi construction and isolated-element techniques for the homebrewers among us.
• Radio Waves: IRCA Reprint Search, RRI’s Listener’s Day, and AM Radio Bill Faces Lobbying — The SWLing Post
  The SWLing Post tracks an IRCA reprint hunt, RRI's Listener's Day, and the ongoing lobbying fight over the AM radio bill.
• Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 444 — AmateurRadio.com
  Nearly 1 in 18 hams stumble at the renewal payment step, plus a successful Earth-Venus-Earth reception that pushes the limits of what our signals can do.
• ZeusSDR: Station Console for HPSDR Radios — The DXZone
  ZeusSDR brings a cross-platform, WebGL-native console with serious DSP to Hermes-Lite 2 and ANAN-class radios for the HPSDR crowd.
• A new keyboard — AmateurRadio.com
  A relatable contester's lament: when keys go unreliable mid-exchange, even the humble keyboard becomes a limiting factor in your rate.

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