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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <alllinks alcontinue="Distributed_RF_Scanner_Array" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <alllinks>
      <l ns="0" title="BigDishes" />
      <l ns="0" title="Broadcast radio" />
      <l ns="0" title="Build your own Synthetic Aperture Radar" />
      <l ns="0" title="Burning serial numbers" />
      <l ns="0" title="Codico IRD-2600" />
      <l ns="0" title="Cognitive Radio" />
      <l ns="0" title="Compiling the E310 SDK for E110" />
      <l ns="0" title="Cryptography" />
      <l ns="0" title="DATV" />
      <l ns="0" title="Digital Voice Radio" />
    </alllinks>
  </query>
</api>