[CW] HAMQTH.COM IS RST 599!

[Fabian Kurz]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 06:12:16PM -0000, Radio K0HB wrote:
> The QRZ.COM owner is running a business, and that usually entails having a 
> revenue stream.  A subscription the old Flying Horse callbooks (USA and DX) 
> used to cost about $15.00 each, 4 times a year if you kept up to date.  That 
> works out to $120.00 a year, for data as much as 3 months old.   A QRZ.COM 
> subscription, with info updated daily (not every 90 days), costs $29.95. 
> Seems like a bargain to this old dude.

If someone likes to run a business with a callsign lookup-site, it's
all OK to me.

But considering what it costs to run and operate a server nowadays,
how cheap bandwidth is, that the software to run it is available for
free or can be written by yourself, there's no reason why there
shouldn't be an attempt at a completely free database, that has an API
that can be accessed by any software.

I applaud Petr for giving this a try, and now it's up to the users to
decide which way they want to go. Considering the free access to
hamqth.com, it should become a _very_ popular choice for the major
logbook programs to use this as a default now.

73,
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