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HN user seeks Cleveland ham radio club contact to save gear from dumpster

An Ask HN post appeals for help reaching the Cuyahoga Amateur Radio Club after a web-form inquiry about a large radio equipment collection went unanswered.

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What to know

  • An Ask HN post seeks a personal contact at the Cuyahoga Amateur Radio Club in the Cleveland area.
  • A web form submission to the club apparently went unanswered, risking loss of a large, partly new radio equipment collection to disposal.
  • The post has drawn 21 comments on Hacker News and has been automatically mirrored to an RSS aggregator and two Mastodon bot accounts.

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  1. background

    Post is mirrored by HN Frontpage RSS feed — The same Ask HN item is picked up and republished by an automated HN Frontpage RSS aggregator, repeating the original text verbatim.

  2. 2

    Second Mastodon bot reposts the discussion link

    Another automated Mastodon account (hn100@social.lansky.name) shares the same Ask HN discussion link, extending its automated cross-platform circulation.

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    Mastodon bot cross-posts the HN thread link

    An automated Mastodon account (hkrn@mstdn.social) posts a link to the Ask HN thread, noting it was originally posted on 2026-11-02 at 19:09:36.

    “I filled out the web form for the Cuyahoga Amateur Radio Club but it's probably been circular-filed... I gave some info about a large collection of radio gear that needs to be removed from a home or it will be put into a dumpster. A lot of it brand-new.”
    — stockresearcher, Hacker News poster · source
  4. background

    stockresearcher posts Ask HN seeking Cleveland ham club contact — The post explains that a web form submitted to the Cuyahoga Amateur Radio Club likely went unanswered, and asks the HN community for a personal contact to help rescue a large, partly brand-new radio equipment collection from being discarded.