Some people may prefer to assemble their node from parts rather then buying a completed appliance.
Why are you against that?
This appeared on Facebook regarding the IT situation over at the ARRL: This was reported by Chris NW6V Mike Ritz, W7VO, ARRL 2nd Vice Pres...
This appeared on Facebook regarding the IT situation over at the ARRL:
This was reported by Chris NW6V
Mike Ritz, W7VO, ARRL 2nd Vice President, was at the WVDXC club meeting last night, having just attended an ARRL board meeting to discuss the outage. Mike reported those meetings are a weekly event until the matter is resolved.
Everything that was running on INTERNAL servers is down until further notice. That includes their VoIP phone system, their .org email addresses, and front ends for things like LOTW. Everything running on external servers - cloud servers etc. - including LOTW data, is believed unaffected. But, such data will not be available until the internal matters are resolved. Thus, "joe@arrl.org" doesn't work - because that was on their internal mail server. But "joe@arrl.net" does - because the relays didn't run internally. I checked, and NW6V@ARRL.NETworks.
Efforts to restore the internal systems is proceeding full-time. No time-line can be given. The nature of the problem cannot be discussed.
I believe Mike said - with air asterisks around his words - "We have been advised to say nothing." He responded similarly when asked if "the Feds" were investigating this.
READ MORE: https://w2lj.blogspot.com/2024/05/interesting-speculation.html
if your club sucks, contribute and make it better!
That's an idiotic, and more than a little bit insulting, kneejerk response.
You have no idea what I do for my club.
Amateur Radio is a niche hobby full of niches; most of them require a radio. Here's one list of things you can do with/in Amateur Radio:
🔗 https://hamradiofornontechies.com/what-can-i-do-with-ham-radio/
Clubs are highly overrated. They are only beneficial if your interests in Amateur Radio coincide with a sizable segment of the club membership or with the club's purpose. In my case our club is `primarily a social outlet for disheveled old folks who are only interested in DXing and contests; not my cup of tea.
None ... because I won't play in that cesspool.
seems awesome for recreational and emergency communication.
Can we please stop using "emergency communication" as a badge of worthiness?