[MilCom] Blue Angel Pilot Trash-Talks the Florida Central-East Coast!

[GeorgeF.]

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>- Your mission is to get web hits.
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>You have the right to do what you did.  It just doesn't help the other=20
>missions
>but you got a lot of hits (congrats).

I appreciate your comments.  However my mission was not to get hits.  In=20
fact I stated that earlier in this way too long of a thread.   During the=20
heat of the war (which I did very little posting) I was receiving about=20
5000 unique visitors per day.  Before the war and now I=92m receiving about=
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3000 unique visitors per day.  So as you can see I sure didn=92t need to do=
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this for hits, in fact hits cost me money, last month over $40 just in=20
bandwidth overrun charges!

As a result I now moved the website to a dedicated web server (meaning=20
www.MilAirComms.com is the ONLY website on the entire server).   However=20
the cost of doing so isn=92t cheap.   www.MilAirComms.com now costs=20
$150/month to host.

My mission isn=92t to  get hits.  My mission is this:  To help newcomers in=
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the hobby.  When I was new and trying to get info on the hobby I would  ask=
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the so-called experts questions.   Either my questions went unanswered or I=
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would get blasted for asking questions.   After talking with some other=20
people who wanted to get stated in MilAir listening I learned that they all=
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ran into the same brick wall.  So in order to help the new people getting=20
into the hobby I started the website so they had a place to go for freqs=20
and information.

The real factor which lead me to starting www.MilAirComms was an incident=20
with a member of this group.  He had listed a frequency for  2Meter=20
repeater which was to rebroadcast shuttle audio.   After several launches=20
and no audio from that repeater I asked the question =93is that freq still=
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current?=94  Along with the question I had also informed that person of=20
another 2 meter freq which was active in the very same town.  Boy oh boy=20
did I get reamed a new a**hole.   That person blasted me on every email=20
list and newsgroup telling everyone I said his list was junk.    Later I=20
found from other people (both newbies and semi-pros) that they have ran=20
into the same problems with getting accurate information.   So that is how=
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and why www.MilAirComms.com got started, to help the newcomer when others=20
wouldn=92t=85=85Don=92t get me wrong, there are some old-timers in the hobby=
 who=20
are very welling to help and have helped me and I appreciated the time each=
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and everyone took to answer my questions and exchange information.  However=
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there are an equal number who would rather knock down your antenna so they=
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remain =93King of the Hill=94.

George
http://www.MilAirComms.com