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Terms and rules

Last updated: 2 August 2026

These Terms and Community Rules govern your access to and use of {board_title}, available at https://community.sdrstore.eu (the "Community").

The Community is operated by SDRstore ("SDRstore", "we", "our", or "us"). By accessing the Community, creating an account, or submitting content, you agree to these Terms, our Privacy Policy, our Cookie Policy, and any additional rules displayed in particular Community sections.

If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not register for or use the Community.

1. Community purpose

The SDRstore Community is a public discussion platform for topics including:

  • Software-defined radio and radio-frequency technology.
  • SDR setup, troubleshooting, drivers, software, and firmware.
  • Antennas, filters, amplifiers, cables, connectors, and RF accessories.
  • Signal reception, decoding, measurement, and analysis.
  • Amateur radio, satellite reception, ADS-B, AIS, weather satellites, and related projects.
  • GNU Radio, SDR++, SDR#, SatDump, OpenWebRX, and similar software.
  • Research, education, cybersecurity, spectrum monitoring, and laboratory applications.
  • SDRstore products, announcements, guides, and general product discussions.

The Community is intended for lawful technical discussion, education, troubleshooting, and collaboration. It must not be used to facilitate unlawful radio transmissions, harmful interference, unauthorized interception, fraud, abuse, or other illegal activity.

2. Summary of the most important rules

  • Be respectful and discuss ideas without attacking people.
  • Post useful, accurate, and relevant information.
  • Use descriptive titles and the correct forum category.
  • Do not spam, deceive, impersonate, harass, or manipulate other members.
  • Do not publish passwords, payment information, private communications, addresses, tracking numbers, or other sensitive personal information.
  • Do not use the Community to arrange unlawful radio activity, jamming, unauthorized interception, intrusion, theft, or fraud.
  • Respect copyright, trademarks, licences, and other intellectual property rights.
  • Do not advertise, sell products, recruit customers, or post affiliate links without permission.
  • Do not create multiple accounts to evade restrictions, manipulate engagement, or mislead other users.
  • Follow moderator instructions and use the reporting and appeal systems responsibly.

These points are only a summary. The complete Terms and Rules below apply to all use of the Community.

3. Age requirement

The Community is only available to users who are at least 13 years old.

If you are younger than this age, you must not register, create an account, or submit personal information to the Community. By registering, you confirm that you meet the minimum age requirement.

We may close or restrict an account where we reasonably believe that the account holder does not meet the minimum age requirement.

4. Account registration

You may browse certain areas of the Community without an account. An account may be required to create threads, reply, react, send private conversations, upload attachments, or access restricted sections.

When registering, you agree to:

  • Provide accurate information where information is required.
  • Use an email address that you are authorized to access.
  • Keep your account information reasonably current.
  • Choose a username that does not violate these Terms.
  • Protect your password and login credentials.
  • Notify us promptly if you believe your account has been compromised.

You are responsible for activity performed through your account unless the activity occurred because of a security failure for which we are legally responsible.

You must not:

  • Register on behalf of another person without authorization.
  • Sell, transfer, rent, or share your Community account.
  • Create accounts using temporary, stolen, or unauthorized email addresses.
  • Create multiple accounts to manipulate discussions, votes, reactions, reports, giveaways, rankings, or other Community features.
  • Create a new account to evade a warning, restriction, suspension, or ban.
  • Automate account registration or account activity without our written permission.

We may require email verification, additional verification, or other reasonable security steps before granting or restoring access to an account.

5. Usernames, avatars, and profiles

Usernames, avatars, signatures, profile fields, and other account presentation elements must comply with these Terms.

You must not use account details that:

  • Impersonate SDRstore, an SDRstore employee, a moderator, another member, a manufacturer, a public authority, or another organization.
  • Falsely suggest an official partnership, endorsement, qualification, or verified status.
  • Contain hate speech, threats, explicit sexual content, illegal content, or targeted abuse.
  • Contain another person’s private information.
  • Infringe trademarks, copyright, or other rights.
  • Are primarily intended to advertise a website, product, referral code, or commercial service.

Titles, badges, labels, verification indicators, and staff markings are assigned by the Community. You must not reproduce or imitate them in a way that may mislead other users.

6. User-generated content

The Community contains content submitted by users, including threads, posts, replies, private conversations, profile information, photographs, screenshots, files, links, tutorials, reviews, and other materials ("Content").

User-generated Content expresses the views of its author. Unless content is clearly published as an official SDRstore announcement, it must not be treated as an official statement, guarantee, technical specification, product commitment, or legal position of SDRstore.

We do not pre-approve every contribution and cannot guarantee that every user submission is accurate, complete, lawful, current, secure, or suitable for a particular purpose.

You are responsible for Content you submit and for reasonably foreseeable consequences resulting from its publication.

By submitting Content, you confirm that:

  • You created the Content or have permission to submit it.
  • Your submission does not infringe another person’s rights.
  • Your submission is not knowingly false, fraudulent, or materially misleading.
  • Your submission complies with applicable law and these Terms.
  • You have removed confidential or sensitive information that should not be published.

7. Public nature of the Community

Most Community sections are public. Content submitted publicly may be:

  • Viewed by registered and unregistered visitors.
  • Indexed or cached by search engines.
  • Quoted by other members.
  • Linked from external websites or social media.
  • Copied, archived, or preserved by independent third parties.

Do not publish anything that you need to keep private or confidential.

Removing Content from the Community does not guarantee that copies held by search engines, internet archives, other members, or unrelated third parties will also be removed.

8. Personal and confidential information

You must not publish another person’s personal information without a valid legal basis or their clear permission.

Prohibited personal information includes, where it has not been lawfully made public by the person concerned:

  • Home addresses and precise private locations.
  • Private telephone numbers or email addresses.
  • Passwords, authentication codes, API keys, recovery codes, or access credentials.
  • Payment card, bank account, or payment transaction information.
  • Identity documents or government identification numbers.
  • Private medical, financial, employment, or family information.
  • Private communications, support tickets, or emails shared without authorization.
  • Order details, invoices, shipping labels, and tracking information that identify a customer.

When requesting help with an SDRstore order, do not publish your full address, telephone number, payment details, or complete tracking information. Use the official SDRstore support channel for private order matters.

Moderators may remove or redact personal information to protect users or third parties.

9. Respectful participation

Members may disagree, criticize products, challenge technical claims, and discuss controversial subjects. However, disagreement must remain focused on the subject rather than becoming personal abuse.

You must not:

  • Harass, intimidate, stalk, or repeatedly target another person.
  • Post credible threats or encourage violence.
  • Use slurs or attack people based on protected personal characteristics.
  • Encourage suicide, self-harm, or harm to another person.
  • Organize harassment, brigading, dogpiling, or coordinated reporting.
  • Deliberately provoke members or repeatedly disrupt discussions.
  • Publish humiliating, degrading, or sexually exploitative material.
  • Use private conversations to threaten, pressure, solicit, or abuse other users.

Criticism of a product, company, moderator decision, or Community policy is permitted when it is expressed honestly and constructively. Fabricated accusations, targeted harassment, and repeated disruption are not permitted.

10. Technical quality and posting standards

To keep the Community useful and searchable, members should:

  • Use a title that clearly describes the question or subject.
  • Post in the most relevant category.
  • Explain the SDR hardware, software, operating system, frequency, antenna, settings, and error involved where relevant.
  • Include troubleshooting steps already attempted.
  • Use code blocks, logs, screenshots, and attachments appropriately.
  • Describe how a problem was resolved when possible.
  • Search for an existing discussion before creating a duplicate thread.
  • Use understandable language and avoid unnecessary keyword stuffing.

You must not:

  • Create empty, meaningless, misleading, or deliberately vague threads.
  • Post the same question or message repeatedly.
  • Post unrelated replies solely to increase account statistics.
  • Artificially revive old discussions without adding useful information.
  • Copy large amounts of content from another website without permission.
  • Publish automatically generated content that you have not reviewed for accuracy and relevance.
  • Use artificial intelligence to mass-produce low-quality, repetitive, deceptive, or fabricated posts.
  • Fabricate testing results, product ownership, credentials, measurements, sources, or personal experience.

Moderators may merge, move, retitle, tag, format, close, archive, or remove content to improve organization and usability.

11. Radio-frequency and SDR-related legal use

Radio-frequency laws, licensing requirements, permitted frequencies, power limits, encryption rules, privacy laws, and equipment requirements vary by country. You are responsible for understanding and following the laws that apply to you.

Technical discussion of transmitters, receivers, protocols, security research, reverse engineering, and signal analysis is permitted when presented for lawful research, education, interoperability, authorized testing, or legitimate amateur use.

You must not use the Community to request, provide, coordinate, or promote instructions primarily intended to facilitate:

  • Intentional radio jamming or harmful interference.
  • Unlicensed transmission where a licence is legally required.
  • Operation outside permitted frequency, bandwidth, duty-cycle, or power limits.
  • Interference with emergency, aviation, maritime, navigation, military, public-safety, cellular, or critical-infrastructure communications.
  • Unauthorized interception or disclosure of private communications.
  • Unauthorized access to computer systems, radio networks, access-control systems, vehicles, alarms, or infrastructure.
  • Cloning credentials, access cards, keys, identifiers, or security tokens without authorization.
  • Bypassing payment, subscription, licensing, authentication, or access-control systems.
  • Theft, stalking, surveillance, fraud, sabotage, or physical harm.
  • Concealing or carrying out criminal activity.

Educational or defensive context does not automatically make every submission acceptable. We may restrict highly actionable content when its primary practical effect would be to facilitate unlawful access, interference, harm, or abuse.

When discussing security testing, you should clearly identify the laboratory, simulation, owned equipment, written authorization, or other lawful environment involved.

12. Safety and technical advice

SDR and RF projects may involve electricity, batteries, transmitters, amplifiers, antennas, elevated structures, soldering, heat, and equipment capable of causing interference or injury.

Community information is provided for general discussion and education. It is not a substitute for professional engineering, electrical, legal, medical, aviation, maritime, or safety advice.

You are responsible for assessing risks, following equipment documentation, using appropriate protective measures, and obtaining qualified assistance where required.

Do not advise users to bypass safety systems, operate damaged batteries, use unsuitable power supplies, touch energized circuits, or perform hazardous work without appropriate qualifications and precautions.

13. Illegal and prohibited content

You must not submit, upload, link to, solicit, or distribute content that:

  • Is illegal under applicable European Union, Romanian, or other applicable law.
  • Contains credible threats, incitement to violence, or instructions intended to cause serious harm.
  • Sexually exploits or endangers children.
  • Promotes terrorism or distributes legally prohibited terrorist material.
  • Facilitates fraud, phishing, identity theft, malware distribution, or credential theft.
  • Offers stolen, counterfeit, prohibited, or unlawfully obtained goods or information.
  • Infringes copyright, trademarks, trade secrets, database rights, or other intellectual property rights.
  • Is defamatory or knowingly makes false factual allegations that unlawfully harm another person.
  • Unlawfully exposes personal information or private communications.
  • Violates a court order or another binding legal restriction.

Links to prohibited material may be treated in the same way as directly uploaded material.

14. Malware, security abuse, and automated access

You must not:

  • Upload malware, malicious scripts, harmful files, or deceptive downloads.
  • Attempt to compromise, scan, overload, disrupt, or bypass the security of the Community.
  • Attempt to access another member’s account or restricted administrative areas.
  • Collect usernames, email addresses, posts, or profile information through unauthorized scraping.
  • Operate bots, crawlers, automated posting systems, or bulk messaging systems without written authorization.
  • Exploit vulnerabilities instead of reporting them responsibly.
  • Publish unverified vulnerability details where immediate publication would create a serious risk to the Community or its users.

Good-faith security reports should be submitted privately through our contact form.

15. Spam, advertising, and commercial activity

The Community must not be used primarily as an advertising or customer-acquisition platform.

Unless SDRstore has granted permission or created a section specifically permitting the activity, you must not:

  • Publish advertisements or promotional threads.
  • Send unsolicited commercial private conversations.
  • Post affiliate, referral, shortened, or tracking links for financial benefit.
  • Promote competing stores, services, paid communities, or commercial channels.
  • Recruit customers, employees, contractors, resellers, or investors.
  • Offer products or services for sale.
  • Request payment, donations, cryptocurrency, or financial support.
  • Use fake recommendations, reviews, testimonials, or undisclosed sponsorships.
  • Manipulate search engines by posting keyword-stuffed links or copied content.

Manufacturers, developers, researchers, and creators may participate genuinely in technical discussions. Any material relationship, sponsorship, free product, affiliate relationship, or commercial interest relevant to a recommendation must be clearly disclosed.

We may remove commercial content and restrict accounts created primarily for promotion.

16. Buying, selling, and transactions between members

Unless a dedicated marketplace section is made available, member-to-member sales, purchases, exchanges, paid services, and commercial offers are not permitted.

If such a section is introduced, additional marketplace rules may apply.

SDRstore is not a party to private transactions arranged between members and does not guarantee:

  • The identity of a member.
  • The legality, safety, quality, ownership, or condition of an item.
  • Payment or delivery.
  • The accuracy of a listing or representation.
  • The resolution of a dispute.

You must never use the Community to offer stolen goods, counterfeit products, prohibited equipment, unlawful services, or items that you are not authorized to sell.

17. Product discussions and SDRstore support

Members may discuss SDRstore products honestly, including positive and negative experiences.

However:

  • A Community answer is not necessarily an official SDRstore support response.
  • Product availability, delivery estimates, prices, specifications, compatibility, and warranty decisions must be confirmed through official SDRstore channels.
  • Members must not falsely claim to represent SDRstore or a manufacturer.
  • Private order information must not be published publicly.
  • The Community should not be used to bypass the normal support, warranty, return, or payment process.

Questions involving an individual order, payment, return, delivery address, tracking number, warranty claim, or personal customer record should be sent through the official SDRstore support system.

18. Intellectual property

You retain ownership of copyright and other rights that you hold in your Content.

By submitting Content to the Community, you grant SDRstore a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to:

  • Host, store, reproduce, and back up the Content.
  • Format, resize, encode, or technically adapt the Content.
  • Display, distribute, and communicate the Content through the Community.
  • Include the Content in search results, feeds, previews, notifications, archives, and Community pages.
  • Use reasonable excerpts or previews to promote and link to Community discussions.

This licence is limited to operating, securing, maintaining, improving, archiving, and promoting the Community and associated SDRstore services.

The licence continues for as long as your Content remains on the Community. It may continue afterward to the limited extent necessary for:

  • Backups and disaster recovery.
  • Content quoted or incorporated into another member’s contribution.
  • Legal compliance, dispute resolution, security, or enforcement.
  • Preserving the integrity and context of technical discussions where the Content is retained or anonymized.

You must not reproduce SDRstore logos, graphics, original articles, website content, Community design elements, or other protected materials except where permitted by law or with our authorization.

19. Copyright and intellectual property complaints

If you believe that Content on the Community infringes your copyright, trademark, or another intellectual property right, use our contact form.

Your notice should include:

  • Your name and contact information.
  • Identification of the protected work or right.
  • The exact URL of the allegedly infringing Content.
  • An explanation of why you believe the use is unauthorized.
  • Confirmation that the information in your notice is accurate.
  • Confirmation that you are the rights holder or are authorized to act for the rights holder.

We may request additional information before acting on an incomplete or unclear complaint.

Knowingly submitting a false or abusive intellectual property complaint may result in account restrictions and may expose the complainant to legal liability.

20. Private conversations

The Community may allow members to send private conversations to one another.

Private conversations are not intended to be publicly visible, but they are stored through the Community service. Authorized staff may review private conversations where reasonably necessary to:

  • Investigate a report made by a participant.
  • Investigate spam, fraud, threats, harassment, account compromise, or serious rule violations.
  • Protect users, SDRstore, or third parties.
  • Comply with a lawful request or legal obligation.

You must not use private conversations for spam, advertising, threats, harassment, fraud, payment solicitation, credential sharing, or prohibited transactions.

Do not send passwords, payment card information, identification documents, authentication codes, or other highly sensitive information through private conversations.

21. Moderation

Authorized administrators and moderators may review Content and account activity to operate and protect the Community.

Depending on the circumstances, we may:

  • Request clarification or evidence.
  • Edit formatting or remove sensitive information.
  • Add notices, warnings, labels, or context.
  • Move, merge, split, retitle, close, or archive discussions.
  • Remove or restrict Content.
  • Limit posting, messaging, reactions, uploads, or profile features.
  • Temporarily suspend an account.
  • Permanently close an account.
  • Prevent the creation of replacement accounts.
  • Preserve evidence of abuse or unlawful activity.
  • Refer serious matters to relevant service providers or authorities where legally appropriate.

Moderation decisions may consider:

  • The content, context, intent, and likely effect of the activity.
  • The severity and frequency of violations.
  • Previous warnings or restrictions.
  • Risks to users, SDRstore, or third parties.
  • Whether the activity appears deliberate, deceptive, coordinated, or automated.
  • Applicable legal obligations.

Moderation is based on reasonable judgment and available information. Similar cases may have different outcomes where their context, severity, history, or risks differ.

22. Urgent action

We may act immediately and without advance warning where reasonably necessary to address:

  • A security incident or compromised account.
  • Credible threats or imminent harm.
  • Child sexual exploitation material.
  • Malware, phishing, credential theft, or fraud.
  • Serious privacy violations.
  • Intentional harmful interference or threats to critical communications.
  • Legal obligations or valid authority requests.
  • Attempts to evade an existing suspension or restriction.

Where appropriate and legally permitted, we will provide information about the reason for a significant restriction.

23. Warnings, suspensions, and repeat misuse

Not every violation results in the same action. Minor or accidental issues may be addressed through editing, guidance, or a warning.

Serious, repeated, deliberate, deceptive, or harmful violations may result in immediate suspension or permanent account closure.

We may consider activity across related accounts when investigating ban evasion, coordinated manipulation, fraud, spam, or security abuse.

Before suspending an account for repeated misuse, we may issue a warning where appropriate. A prior warning may not be provided when immediate action is necessary for safety, security, fraud prevention, legal compliance, or protection of other users.

24. Reporting Community rule violations

Use the Community’s “Report” function to report content that appears to violate these Terms or Community Rules.

Reports should:

  • Identify the specific content or account involved.
  • Explain the problem clearly and accurately.
  • Include relevant context that may not be visible to moderators.
  • Be submitted in good faith.

Do not use reports to retaliate against another member, pressure moderators, repeat a personal disagreement, or attempt to remove lawful criticism.

Submitting a report does not guarantee that Content will be removed. We will assess the report according to these Terms, the available context, and applicable law.

25. Reporting illegal content

If you believe that specific Content is illegal, you may notify us using the Community reporting function or our contact form.

To help us assess an illegal-content notice, provide:

  • The exact URL or electronic location of the Content.
  • A clear explanation of why you believe the Content is illegal.
  • The country and law that you believe are relevant, where known.
  • Your name and email address, unless applicable law permits an anonymous notice.
  • A statement confirming that you believe in good faith that the information in your notice is accurate and complete.

We may confirm receipt of the notice, request additional information, investigate the reported Content, and communicate our decision where required or appropriate.

Do not knowingly submit false, deceptive, abusive, or manifestly unfounded notices.

26. Appeals and moderation complaints

If your Content or account is restricted and you believe the decision was incorrect, you may appeal through our contact form.

Where possible, include:

  • Your username and account email address.
  • The URL of the affected Content.
  • The moderation decision you are appealing.
  • A clear explanation of why you believe the decision should be changed.
  • Any important context or evidence that was not previously considered.

Appeals should be submitted within six months of the decision unless a shorter period is required for a specific urgent matter.

An appeal may result in the original decision being upheld, modified, or reversed. Repeated submissions of the same appeal without new information may not receive an additional review.

Where applicable, users may also have access to an independent out-of-court dispute settlement body or may submit a complaint to the competent Digital Services Coordinator.

27. Third-party services and links

The Community may contain links to third-party websites, software, repositories, manufacturers, videos, files, services, and other external resources.

SDRstore does not control independent third-party services and does not guarantee their:

  • Accuracy, availability, security, or legality.
  • Compatibility with your equipment.
  • Privacy or data-processing practices.
  • Products, statements, downloads, or services.

You access external services at your own discretion and subject to their own terms and policies.

Do not assume that a link is safe solely because another member posted it. Scan downloads, verify software sources, and review commands or firmware before using them.

28. Service availability

We aim to keep the Community available and functioning, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation.

We may temporarily or permanently modify, suspend, restrict, replace, or discontinue:

  • The entire Community.
  • A category or feature.
  • Account functionality.
  • Storage or attachment limits.
  • Integrations, add-ons, APIs, or third-party services.

This may occur for maintenance, security, legal, operational, technical, or business reasons.

We are not required to preserve every account or item of Content indefinitely. You should maintain your own copies of Content that is important to you.

29. Disclaimer

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Community and its Content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.

We do not guarantee that:

  • User-generated Content is accurate, complete, safe, lawful, or current.
  • A proposed SDR configuration will work with your equipment.
  • A frequency, transmission, decoding method, or project is legal in your location.
  • Files, firmware, commands, links, or software posted by users are free from defects or harmful components.
  • The Community will always be available or free from errors.
  • Content will not be lost, copied, cached, or accessed by unauthorized third parties.

Official product specifications, prices, availability, warranties, shipping estimates, and return conditions are those provided through the relevant SDRstore product page, order documentation, or official support communication.

30. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, SDRstore will not be responsible for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or purely economic losses resulting from:

  • Reliance on user-generated Content.
  • Member-to-member communications or transactions.
  • Use of third-party links, downloads, firmware, or software.
  • Loss, removal, modification, or unauthorized copying of Content.
  • Service interruptions, errors, or unavailable features.
  • Unauthorized or unlawful conduct by another user.
  • Radio interference, equipment damage, data loss, or regulatory consequences caused by a user’s own activities.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where exclusion or limitation is prohibited by law, including liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, or death or personal injury caused by negligence where applicable.

Nothing in these Terms removes mandatory rights that you have under applicable consumer or data-protection law.

31. Responsibility for violations

You are responsible for your own unlawful conduct and for Content you submit.

Where permitted by applicable law, you may be responsible for reasonable losses, costs, or claims caused by your deliberate or negligent:

  • Violation of these Terms.
  • Infringement of another person’s rights.
  • Submission of unlawful Content.
  • Security abuse, fraud, impersonation, or unauthorized access.

This section does not impose responsibility where doing so would be prohibited by applicable law.

32. Account closure

You may request closure of your account by using our contact form.

Closing your account does not automatically delete every public contribution. Threads and posts may be retained or anonymized where necessary to:

  • Preserve the integrity and context of discussions.
  • Protect the rights and contributions of other members.
  • Maintain security and moderation records.
  • Comply with legal obligations.
  • Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

Privacy and erasure requests will be handled under our Privacy Policy and applicable data-protection law.

33. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms and Community Rules to reflect changes to:

  • The Community and its features.
  • Our moderation and security practices.
  • Applicable laws or regulatory requirements.
  • Operational or technical requirements.

The current version will be published on this page with its latest revision date.

If a change is significant, we may provide additional notice through the Community, by email, or during login. We may ask registered members to review and accept updated Terms before continuing to use certain features.

Your continued use of the Community after updated Terms become effective constitutes acceptance of those Terms where permitted by applicable law.

34. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws applicable to SDRstore’s operation in Romania, without removing any mandatory legal rights or protections available to you under the law of your country of residence.

Before beginning formal legal proceedings, you and SDRstore should attempt to resolve the matter through direct communication where reasonable.

Any dispute will be handled by the courts having jurisdiction under applicable law. Nothing in this section prevents a consumer from using a court or complaint mechanism available under mandatory consumer-protection law.

35. Severability

If any part of these Terms is found to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue to apply.

The affected provision will be interpreted or limited to the minimum extent necessary to make it valid and enforceable where legally possible.

36. No waiver

If we do not immediately enforce a provision of these Terms, this does not mean that we have waived the right to enforce it later.

37. Contact

For questions about these Terms or Community Rules, use our contact form.

For privacy and personal-data matters, refer to the Community Privacy Policy.

For individual SDRstore orders, payments, returns, deliveries, or warranty matters, use the official SDRstore customer-support channel rather than posting private information publicly.

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