[UK-CONTEST] RSGBHFCC.org = domain expired?

[Dave Sergeant]

On 15 Jul 2009 at 17:34, Don Field wrote:

> Nigel et al
> 
> We have allowed the rsgbhfcc domain to lapse as it was due to end
> anyway, and have replaced it with a new, combined, domain of
> www.rsgbcc.org (RSGB Contest Committee). There were a number of reasons
> for this, not least that it coincided with Tim G4VXE's resignation from
> things contest (his RadCom column and the fact that he managed the hfcc
> domain). Thanks are due to Tim, of course, for his efforts over the
> years.
> 
> Most of the links have been sorted and repointed - please let Pete G4CLA
> know of any odd ones you find in your travels (I don't think all the
> ones on the RSGB site have been repointed yet).
> 
> Don G3XTT

Thanks Don for the explanation. I must admit I am not alone in being 
taken back by the speed in which this change has happened, even though 
you did mention it a few weeks ago. The change is not for instance 
mentioned on next Sunday's GB2RS news... Surely it would have been 
better to keep the domain for another year and have a simple redirect 
page there? I suspect there are now a lot of duff links around - I have 
just had to update four pages at http://www.g4bra.org.uk for instance.

What is the state of http://www.vhfcc.org? I see all the links to that 
still work, and the HF pages are accessible as before there, eg 
http://www.vhfcc.org/hfcc/iota.shtml takes you to the IOTA page. As 
does the link there to the 80m CC log sumittal page, still given in the 
rules in the vhfcc.org form. Is the new site effectively just the same, 
hosted at vhfcc.org with the domain pointing to the appropriate place?

And the entry page at http://www.rsgbcc.org is a pretty bare page apart 
from the links to the HF and VHF sections. But I guess that will get 
changed in due course.

73 Dave G3YMC

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