N6MUD SITE FEATURES
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N6MUD is a personal amateur-radio website focused on Extended Single
Sideband, Software Defined Radio, Thetis, Apache Labs ANAN equipment, audio
processing, microphones, antennas, station equipment, and related operating
topics.


SITE EXPERIENCE
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- Responsive dark technical design for desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.
- Accessible, semantic page structure with keyboard-friendly controls.
- Navigation to the main content areas of the single-page site.
- Social-sharing metadata and N6MUD branding.
- Search-engine metadata, a canonical address, structured site/operator data,
  and standard crawler discovery files.
- Current station temperature from the San Diego area.
- A live-status badge that indicates when N6MUD is streaming on YouTube.
- A page-view count in the footer.
- Footer links to the site's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.


STATION CHAT
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- Real-time community chat for amateur-radio conversations.
- Retained recent chat history that opens at the newest message.
- Amateur-radio callsign verification before messages are accepted.
- A remembered callsign for returning visitors using the same browser.
- Text messages of up to 500 characters.
- Images, audio, XML, and plain-text attachments up to 20 MB in supported
  common formats, with downloadable links for XML and text files.
- Automated safety screening before image attachments can be transmitted.
- Images rejected by automated screening are held temporarily for restricted
  moderation review and are not published in chat; administrators may remove
  a rejected image before its automatic expiration.
- Administrative abuse controls can prevent selected network addresses from
  posting new chat messages or attachments.
- Authorized site management accounts receive an Administration shortcut in
  the signed-in header controls.
- Clickable web links and highlighted @CALLSIGN mentions.
- An optional sound notification when another operator mentions your callsign.
- A full-screen chat view.
- A thumbs-up reaction and count on each message once the visitor has a known,
  verified callsign.
- Hovering over a reaction shows the callsigns that liked the message.
- Basic message moderation and posting safeguards.
- Administrative message removal when moderation is necessary.
- Posting IP addresses retained for abuse prevention and visible only to the
  authenticated site administrator.


STATION AND TECHNICAL CONTENT
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- N6MUD station profile and equipment highlights.
- ESSB and wideband transmit-audio information.
- Apache Labs ANAN G2, Thetis, microphone, processor, amplifier, and antenna
  details.
- A station and amateur-radio image gallery.
- A condensed Behringer DEQ2496 setup article with supporting illustrations.
- Links to additional technical source material where appropriate.


MEDIA AND EXTERNAL RESOURCES
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- Links to N6MUD YouTube livestreams and recorded videos.
- Links to the N6MUD Spotify audio archive.
- Embedded YouTube station and mobile-shack videos.
- An embedded QRZ logbook with a direct-link fallback.
- Links to the N6MUD QRZ profile and public weather station.


PRIVACY AND SAFETY
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- Google sign-in is available for authorized site-management functions.
- Public chat participants use verified amateur-radio callsigns.
- Chat messages are rendered as text rather than executable page content.
- Uploaded chat media is restricted by file type and size.
- External links open separately from the N6MUD site.
- The site uses only the browser scripting needed for interactive features.


ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT
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This public overview describes visitor-facing functionality without publishing
private configuration or operational security details. It is maintained with
the website as features change.