[TowerTalk] time to modernize the reflector

[Jon Pearl - W4ABC]

During all this discussion, someone had the forethought to secure a new
reflector.

To wit... https://groups.io/g/towertalk



73,


Jon Pearl - W4ABC


On 8/28/2019 1:48 AM, Jim Thomson wrote:
> 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
>

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