A properly varied Sunday: the Worked All Germany contest filled the bands while POTA activators chased parks and speaker upgrades in North Carolina. Add fresh SDR hacks hiding in Wi-Fi chips, an AMSAT symposium roundup, and a DXer's personal history of Vietnam through radio, and there's plenty to chew on with the morning coffee.

In today’s roundup

• WAG contest 2026 — AmateurRadio.com
  A relaxed weekend chasing the annual Worked All Germany Contest, with a candid read on band conditions that'll resonate with anyone watching the current solar picture.
• An Unexpected Morning Activation with WJ3FF at William B. Umstead State Park — QRPer
  K4SWL turns a daughter's errand into a spontaneous Umstead State Park activation alongside WJ3FF, proving the best POTA outings are often unplanned.
• The Vietnam Wars – Connecting the Pieces Through Radio: A Personal Journey Part 1 — The SWLing Post
  Don Moore opens a personal, multi-part journey connecting the Vietnam Wars through radio, blending DX history with storytelling for the shortwave-and-travel crowd.
• Turning a Wi-Fi Adapter into an SDR — Hackaday · Radio
  Following that undocumented ESP32 I/Q sampling discovery, more wireless chips are revealing hidden SDR tricks—cheap experimentation is about to get interesting.
• ANS-291 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins — AMSAT
  This week's AMSAT bulletin rounds up the 44th Annual Symposium, AMSAT-UK's Colloquium, and 65 years of amateur satellites—essential reading for the birds-and-boxes set.
• My CFT1 Just Got a Speaker Upgrade! — QRPer
  K4SWL fits his CFT1 with a speaker upgrade, a small homebrew tweak that matters more than you'd think during a long field session.
• Radio Waves: Iconic Czech Towers Demolished, Global Public Broadcasters Gather, T8/FT4 DX Decoder for SDR++Brown, and Visual Path & Open-Source Browser-Based SDR App — The SWLing Post
  A grab-bag of radio news, from demolished Czech towers to a T8/FT4 DX decoder and browser-based SDR apps worth a bookmark.
• ICQPodcast Episode 495 – Antennas for QRP and POTA — AmateurRadio.com
  The ICQ Podcast gathers its regulars to dig into antennas for QRP and POTA—practical fodder for anyone building a lightweight field station.

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