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Killing the Club WordPress: A Lift-and-Shift Ham Site Anyone Can Run

July 14, 20265 min read Ham RadioAIOpen SourceOpinionSelf-Hosting

When I joined the Rowan Amateur Radio Society, the club website ran on WordPress. It worked — until it didn’t, which is the whole problem with WordPress. So I rebuilt it as a static Hugo site and paired it with an AI maintenance workflow, on purpose, so that the next volunteer doesn’t have to be me. The whole thing is...

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Michael Bell
Michael Bell
Edge-case ham (W3MRB) — electronics and bench science first, operator second. General class, grinding for Amateur Extra. RF as applied physics; 3D printing as the fixture shop.
North Carolina
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Posts
  • The Ham Rack: A Field HF Station in Ten Inches of 3D-Printed Plastic
    July 12, 2026
  • Confessions of an Edge-Case Ham
    July 12, 2026
  • My Amateur Radio License Rejuvenated My Love for Tech — And Why You Should Get One Too
    August 16, 2025
  • Killing the Club WordPress: A Lift-and-Shift Ham Site Anyone Can Run
    July 14, 2026
  • The Ham Rack: A Field HF Station in Ten Inches of 3D-Printed Plastic
    July 12, 2026
  • Confessions of an Edge-Case Ham
    July 12, 2026
  • Grinding for Extra: Studying Ham Radio's Hardest Exam as an Engineer
    July 11, 2026
  • Teaching a Local LLM to Be My Elmer
    July 10, 2026
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Bench notes on amateur radio, QRP and POTA field stations, homebrew RF, and 3D printing — from an edge-case ham (W3MRB) who's an electronics tinkerer first and an operator second.

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