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    <p class="badge">Support Development</p>

    <h1>Help shape the future of KST4Contest.</h1>

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        KST4Contest is an independent open-source project developed in my free time.
        Your support helps cover infrastructure costs and enables new contest-oriented
        features that would otherwise be difficult to implement.
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<p class="eyebrow">What previous support has enabled</p>

<h2>Real improvements funded by the community.</h2>
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<h3>🛰 PSTRotator Integration</h3>

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Support helped justify the investment into rotor hardware and the required
PSTRotator license. Today KST4Contest can automatically control antennas
during contest operation.

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<h3>🗺 Interactive Map</h3>

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The interactive station map required commercial map API usage.
Community support helped cover those API costs and made the feature possible.

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<p class="eyebrow">Future goals</p>

<h2>What future support will fund</h2>

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<h3>☁ Map API</h3>

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Keeping the online map service available requires ongoing API usage.

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<h3>📡 Tropo Server</h3>

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Future propagation prediction services and server-side calculations
will require dedicated hosting infrastructure.

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<h3>🔌 New Integrations</h3>

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Development of additional interfaces, logging software integrations,
contest tools and automation features.

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<h3>🚀 Faster Development</h3>

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More development time means more contest-oriented features,
better testing and better documentation.

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<p class="eyebrow">Every contribution helps</p>

<h2>Whether it's one coffee or ongoing support.</h2>

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Your support directly improves KST4Contest.

Unlike commercial software, every new feature is driven by real contest
experience and community feedback.

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❤️ Support KST4Contest

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