#hamchallenge week 24: Make a contribution to an Open Source ham radio project. This does not necessarily have to be a source code contribution!
You can suggest a documentation improvement, file a bug report, submit a feature request, or if you're out of ideas, make a donation. Go ahead and let us know what you did! #HC24
Not a coder, so I'll use another path for #HC24. I'm thinking about making a donation.
Thought #1: give to the software I've used almost every day since getting a digimode station up, WSJT-X.
But it doesn't seem inventor Joe Taylor made it easy to donate! Not in software menus, not on his website, not in user guide, no mention in the groups.io archives. Thankful for his service!
So I guess I'll move on to Thoughts #2 and #3...?!
Welp, Thought 2 for #HC24 was to donate to #GridTracker since I've used that almost as much as WSJT-X, but N0TTL says "We are no longer accepting donations. Thank you to those that did, it really helped when we needed it the most!" - https://gridtracker.org/index.php/donate
On their Discord, N0TTL elaborates: "donations lead to demands. 
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So onto Thought #3 which is actually the most interesting. But I'm very thankful for such a generous software development community!
I'm now happy to bring this tiny #HamChallenge effort to a successful conclusion after 2 failed attempts!
Also happy to get creative on this one by contributing a donation to @OpenResearchIns, an "Exemplar of Open Research and Development."
In addition open source values and projects, their leadership on #219MHz, with an explainer + call to action + compelling expert public comment, gives me a lot of confidence.
https://www.openresearch.institute/2025/04/01/fcc-filing-for-219-mhz-rules-changes-from-ori