Thursday's lineup leans into the tools and people that keep us on the air, from DX Engineering's take on what makes a ham "active" to a 3D-printed paddle born at Hamvention. Software gets its due too, with a Rust-built SDR client and a web platform for weak-signal operators, plus an illustrated shortwave listening report to round things out.

In today’s roundup

• “Powered by Active Hams”—What DX Engineering’s Official Motto Means to Our Customers — OnAllBands (DX Engineering)
  After 25 years, DX Engineering distills its identity into a motto, a useful reminder that this hobby is defined by the people actually keying up.
• N8PEM: A Zippy Paddle Story on Picea Benchmark — QRPer
  A Hamvention encounter with KE4WLE's 3D-printed Zippy paddles shows how homebrew ingenuity keeps producing impressive, affordable gear for CW ops.
• SDRoxide: Universal SDR Transceiver Client — The DXZone
  Written in Rust with a GPU panadapter and dual VFOs, SDRoxide runs natively on Linux, macOS, and Windows—or streams to any browser.
• Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of NHK (August 31, 2026) — The SWLing Post
  Cartoonist Carlos Latuff pairs an NHK reception report with illustration, a charming reminder that SWL logs can be art as much as documentation.
• HamRadioWeb.com — The DXZone
  HamRadioWeb brings remote FT8/FT4 operation and decode monitoring to WSJT-X and JTDX users through a real-time web platform and companion app.

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