[PaQSO] Web page updates again and other stuff

[Michael Coslo]

I have a little more time today to elaborate on the post from the  
other day.

There was confusion regarding the Party rules for 2009. People were  
getting the wrong year's rules, while I had things updated. Finally,  
with help from a member, and looking at the website's directory  
structure, I figured it out. NARC has a webmaster who takes care of  
the club side of the web, and I do all the PAQSO web stuff. Probably  
an invitation to trouble, but I had to get rid of some of the work.

So after looking at the structure and the links, I noticed that for  
some reason, the webmaster had made copies of last year's rules and  
pdf's, and put them in a separate folder. He then linked to those  
files on the NARC home page instead of the ones on the PAQSO pages.

And wouldn't you know it, Google's crawlers linked to that link  
instead of mine.

I didn't want to go in and change the NARC home page, I figure a guys  
html is his own ya' know, but this was a real problem. So I decided to  
make a redirect.  But Google and other search engines don't look  
kindly on redirects, so I had to make it a long duration, 15 seconds,  
so they wouldn't think it was some nasty site or something like that.   
But there is a link to take you right to the official pages if you're  
impatient like me.

So final on that is that if you get a odd looking page with just our  
redirect on it, it is just there to get around the problem until I get  
the webmaster to change his links.

On to other things,

I am figuring out the sponsors issues now, and will make a further  
update when I get that. Here is the sponsors list as I have it now
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Canadian Division - Columbia-Montour ARC

Club Competition - The Nittany Amateur Radio Club

Central Time Zone Division - The Steel City Amateur Radio Club

CW Division - Bud Trench,  AA3B

Eastern Time Zone Division - The Murgas Amateur Radio Club

HIgh Power EPA - The Dauberville DX Association

HIgh Power WPA -  The Wireless Association of South Hills

Multi-op Multi Transmitter - The Reading Radio Club

Mobile Division -  The Delaware-Lehigh Amateur Radio Club

Medium Power EPA -  Duane Traver, WV2B

Medium Power WPA - The Radio Association of Erie

Mountain/Pacific Time Zone - Carmine Prestia, K3CWP, Elaine Prestia  
K3ERP

Multi-Op Single TX -  The Tuscarora Amateur Radio Association

Out of State Medium Power -  The Penn Ohio DX Society

Out of State QRP Division  - Jim Gooch NA3V

PA First Timer Division -  Blair Bates K3YD

PA QRP Division - The Penn Wireless Club

Portable Single TX Division - Eric Brooks N3EB

Rover Division -  The Mercer County Amateur Radio Club

DX Division - Al Zelna N3KAE

*SSB only Division - N3OW,  Jay Mason

20 Meter Good Neighbor Division - Charles Fulp, K3WW

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	* Where I have a problem is with the SSB division, where two  
different people are involved. I need to move the sponsor to Pete  
Varonis, who was the original idea behind the plaque. I need to find  
something for Jay, If he still wishes.


	Originally, I was not going to add any new plaques for this year, but  
since we are at this juncture, I will do so if wishes indicate.

	If anyone or group wants to stop sponsoring their plaque also let me  
know.

	If someone wants to sponsor a new plaque, this is the time to do it.  
I know Julius N2WN wanted to sponsor a plaque.

	Costs for a plaque are still 35 dollars. After the final list is made  
in the next few days, I will send out the bills for them.

The plaques will be getting a redesign this year.



-73 de Mike N3LI -