[Ham-Computers] All Subscribers, Please Read

Sun Apr 6 22:50:38 EDT 2008

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
To: <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 10:24 PM
Subject: [Ham-Computers] All Subscribers, Please Read

>
>
> I received the message below a few minutes ago from the owner of QTH.NET,
> Alan Waller, K3TKJ. While what he says is absolutely true, as usual, Al 
> has
> understated how important your donation, of 'any' amount is!
>
> I joined the Hallicrafters list in early 1997 and became its list manager 
> in
> 1998. I have since been given the responsibility to keep an eye on another
> eleven lists. What I do is totally voluntary, there never has been any
> payment or compensation of any kind. Al has worked very hard to keep his
> original little local Ham Radio project alive and well, despite it having 
> a
> super hormonal growth spurt that rocketed it from a local Delaware Ham 
> thing
> to the largest provider of information for all things Ham on this third 
> rock
> from the Sun!
>
> Now please realize that Al does not do this for profit, to fund his super
> Ham Shack, for fame or glory or for any reason monetary! Because if he 
> did,
> he would pull the plug, trash the 29 servers, disconnect the five T1 lines
> and experience life without a thousand e-mails daily! But Al is crazy, I
> should know, as I have the same problem about being crazy when it comes to
> Ham Radio! The man loves it so much that he continues to fund this growing
> child packed with electronic chips, spam filters, hacker firewalls
> reinforced with NASA grade Titanium, back up emergency generators, air
> conditioning to keep the QTH.NET/QSL.NET electronics from doing a 
> meltdown,
> and on and on. It is one huge amount of work, as Al builds most of the
> computers himself, does the security upgrades himself, fixes what goes
> KAPOW! at 2:01 AM EST/EDT to get your favorite QTH.NET list back up and
> delivering that vintage vacuum tube data or  satellite Com info or space
> weather propagation prognostication probability, Ham computer list help 
> for
> the hard drive crash or RAM that ran away, program schedules for 
> Short-Wave
> listeners appearing on your CRT, radio club announcements arriving in your
> fifty state Ham mailboxes, the latest VHF/UHF facts - fixes - new flavors,
> and about five hundred+ topics!
>
> He knows that if "you" don't get your favorite list traffic, that his poor
> telephone will get so blasted many calls from the 338 ITU countries that 
> it
> will melt into a puddle of chips that you do NOT want to dip, as happened
> last year! They just don't make those good old Western Electric meltdown
> proof phones anymore!
>
> Now Al depends on 'your' donations to keep the computers humming, the hard
> drives spinning, the spam out of your mailbox and those lists that give 
> you
> information that you simply can not get anywhere else, as quickly and
> dependably, operating. Because this equipment runs constantly, every 
> minute,
> every day, every week, every month of the year, it wears out! Al needs to
> have extra parts on hand so that he can replace the failed part 
> immediately.
> Because if he does not, all of us out here who depend on these lists to
> provide us with info, will be dialing his QTH.NET office phone and his 
> ears
> won't stop ringing for the next three months! But it costs money to have 
> the
> emergency repair parts ready and waiting. Not all of them are items you 
> can
> simply pick up at a local computer store!
>
> All in all people, it costs a lot of money to keep the lights lit at 
> QTH.NET
> and those computers processing our e-mails. Think about this. There has 
> been
> only one piece of spam that has escaped the guardians of goodness in the
> past ten years! Now who else has that kind of spam free statistics? Al 
> keeps
> these lists free of spam by not selling Ad space, shares of stock, 
> allowing
> corporate control of any kind, or the sale of our names and address or 
> call
> signs, to corporate entities. He started QTH.NET to be for Hams, monitored
> by volunteer Hams, serving every aspect of Amateur Radio, to help Hams in
> every country that had access to the Internet and to keep spam and hackers
> locked out. He has managed to do so thus far. However, he needs our
> financial support to continue to keep what we have grown to love and 
> depend
> on operating as we have grown accustomed to.
>
> Al has never charged a subscriber fee.
>
> Please contribute whatever you can afford to and help Al keep this 
> fantastic
> and invaluable service operating and secure. You will get whatever you
> donate back many times over during the course of a single year! Be it in
> acquiring parts or equipment you are looking for, technical help you need,
> answers to questions from the tremendous gathering of incredible wisdom 
> and
> skill found on these lists, the sale of used radio gear to other Hams,
> selling items or products 'you' personally make as part of the Ham Radio
> Hobby, getting the latest word on what's new - what's good - where to get
> it - and on and on.
>
> But if we do not donate to help support the service, we have only 
> ourselves
> to blame when one day Al has to pull the plug. It takes money to run 
> QTH.NET
> and we all need to contribute what we can to make sure it is there the 
> next
> time we can't find a part, a manual, an answer or whatever.
>
> Thanks to each of you for sending whatever you can. If all you can afford 
> is
> one dollar, send it! Every dollar matters, every dollar helps. If every 
> one
> of the subscribers sent Al one dollar a year, well ... Al would faint!
> Thanks for you help guys.
>
> All List Users:
>
>
> You are receiving this e-mail because you are a subscriber to a mailing
> list at http://www.qth.net.
>
> In 1996 the lists at QTH.NET were started for the ham radio hobby, over
> the years other lists for other hobbies and vocations have appeared.
> There are lists for home built airplanes, blacksmiths and even a list
> for watching military rocket launches. 99% of the lists are still ham
> radio and we continue to grow.
>
> It has been 18 months since I last contacted you and I thought now would
> be a good time to share with you what the plans are for the future.
>
> The server we are using at present was built in 2004 (in a panic)
> because of a failure. I don't want that to happen again so now is the
> time to buy a new one and update all the software at the same time.
>
> There is no income generated by any of the lists here so I depend on
> your help to update things as needed. Today I am asking for your support
> by contributing to the new server purchase.
>
> For less than lunch costs at a fast food place you can guarantee the
> lists will always be there when you want them, and will remain private,
> and spam free.
>
> You can contribute via the following methods:
>
> PAYPAL    http://www.paypal.com     account is k3tkj at qsl.net
>
> CREDIT CARD   http://www.qsl.net/donation    ( Visa, MC, Discover, Amex )
>
> MAIL
>
> QSL.NET
> 34087 Old Hickory Road
> Laurel, Delaware 19956
>
> The suggested donation is $25 but we will gratefully accept whatever you
> can help with. As always Thank You for your past and continued support.
>
> Regards,
>
> Al Waller K3TKJ
>
>
> Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
> E-Mail: dfischer at usol.com
> Hallicrafters web site: www.w9wze.net
> HHRP web site: hhrp.w9wze.net
>
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