[Ham-Computers] All Subscribers, Please Read

Mon Apr 7 22:36:26 EDT 2008

On behalf of Al, thank you Don!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "wxfreqrs" <wxfreqrs at cableone.net>
To: "Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications, or 
experimenting" <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 10:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] All Subscribers, Please Read

> DONE
>
> Don
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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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