[TowerTalk] time to modernize the reflector

[Jim Thomson]

Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 21:31:03 -0700
From: Shane Youhouse <kd6vxi at gmail.com>

<The email reflectors have been removed since mid to early 2017 from the
<contesting.com front page.

<Contesting.com is dying.

<I've emailed the admins about this and never got a response.  Tried a
<couple times.

<Our reflectors (towertalk, top and, rfi and amps are all ones I've subbed
<to, amps since the grate parasitic debate, circa the late 90s!) will go
<away as people get older and stop contributing.

<Steve, how many new subscribers do we get now vs two years or so ago.  Kind
<of hard to find the list when uts only referenced by search engines now!

<Anyway, off my soapbox.  But seriously, if we want a better reflector, how
<about getting the reflectors listed on the front page again, and maybe
<having site Adkins that actually respond to direct emails.

<—Shane
<KD6VXI

##  Shane  just nailed it !   Moving all  the  e-mail  reflectors OFF  the  contesting.com home page
is  NOT  doing anybody  any favours.   No  point  in me  referring anybody to  contesting.com 
when it  doesnt do em any good, and they  cant access  the  various  e mail  reflectors. 

##  Its like  contesting.com  is purposely trying to  destroy itself...which it is succeeding. 

##  I  too  emailed the admins  about this  several times...with  no  reply.   So  now  all the  specific
groups like  AMPS  etc,  have simply  migrated over to  groups io  and also yahoo, etc, etc,  where
you can post pix..and  schematics, and entire books on  specific subjects.  Not being able to post a
simple  pix  or schematic is  about as  stupid as it gets.   Trying to  describe  something  without a pix
takes  some longwinded creative  writing skills, and then  some.   And  folks  will  still get it  wrong. 

##  contesting.com  needs  to...  re-invent itself...and  quick like. 

##  go to   www.contesting.com   right  now....and you will see that the entire home page has been  frozen
in time  for 2 years.   As  is, there are  better options out there. 

Jim   VE7RF