[South Florida DX Association] R.A.I.N. Report Going Dark! No More Reports!

[Bill Marx]

The RAIN Report for the week beginning June 3, 2006 includes:
>>
>> "2006 FCC Update"  Part Two  This week we conclude a talk by FCC General 
>> Counsel Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH, given at the 2006 FCC forum at the 
>> recently-completed Dayton Hamvention in suburban Dayton, Ohio. Riley is 
>> recipient of the 2006 Special Achievement award. However, as you'll hear, 
>> he did not receive the award based on his prowess using the household 
>> drill. (12 minutes)  Unfortunately this is the final RAIN Report you'll 
>> be able to hear on rainreport.com. Yes, rainreport.com is going dark, 
>> effective June 9. For the past ten years Mark Bohnhoff, WB9UOM, has 
>> donated the website, along with the hosting and maintenance of it as well 
>> as most of the audio bandwidth to RAIN's Founder/Producer Hap Holly, 
>> KC9RP. But RAIN's partnership with Bohnhoff has run its course. Many of 
>> you probably don't realize that rainreport.com is and always has been a 
>> commercial, for-profit  website that has been anything but profitable. 
>> Mark Bohnhoff has strived for years to make the website pay
>> for itself. However, due to a lack of resources, i.e. marketing and sales 
>> people to rustle up paying advertisers, along with a growing demand for 
>> audio bandwidth,  M. Bohnhoff Inc. will pull the plug on rainreport.com 
>> June 9. It's analogous   to a corporation operating in the red for so 
>> many years (as Mark has with rainreport.com) that the stakeholders would 
>> have run its officers out of town. In a sentence Mark simply cannot 
>> continue giving the store away. All this is to assure you that it's for 
>> business recent rainreport.com is going dark next Friday. Hap Holly, 
>> KC9RP, wishes to thank Mark Bohnhoff for his steadfast support and 
>> unflagging enthusiasm in periodically changing the look of rainreport.com 
>> and faithfully updating the audio files weekly ... all at no cost to Hap 
>> or to RAIN. So what's next for RAIN, you ask? Well effective Friday, June 
>> 9, these RAIN Reports will become available as downloadable MP3 files 
>> from www.arnewsline.org. The Newsline folks have kindly offered a home 
>> for the RAIN Report, minus any streaming, however. Hopefully that will 
>> once again become  available later this summer on a different website, 
>> along with the weekly RAIN program Summary hundreds of you have been 
>> receiving via email; That too is going away. In the meantime, Hap Holly 
>> will continue producing these quality,  copyrighted reports for airing on 
>> your VHF/UHF repeater/radio club net. If you wish to contact hap, his 
>> email address will continue to be hap at rainreport.com. We bid a 
>> bittersweet farewell to rainreport.com but look forward to hopefully 
>> increasing RAIN's reach via the downloadable MP3 format on 
>> arnewsline.org.
>>
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>> communicate it that makes a difference". Contact our web site, 
>> http://www.rainreport.com. Make Note: HamCast.com is coming!
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