Article: 51145 of rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc From: "n9zle" Subject: No link attitude! Message-ID: Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 04:23:18 GMT No link attitude! http://www.n9zle.com/forum/ What is it with this no-link to other site attitude? Years ago when the internet was in its infancy just about any site would add your site as a link from theirs. In return you would do the same. But now it has come to NO-LINKS. Not even in the forums. I have had a website located on tripod for about 9 years over those nine years I had a link to qrz dot com That site received over a million hits. And many users went from that site to qrz and on-to Icomamerica dot com. I have always supported Icom. They have never given a link on their site to mine. I have always supported qrz. But of course he(AA7BQ) never put a link on his site to mine. Well you may say that "I never asked". And that is true. But recently I have noticed he has been deleting my posts. ALL OF THEM. He never contacted me telling me why. AA7BQ just deleted them. I build CIV cables and sell a few of them every week to amateur operators who want them. When I posted one on his site. I found he deleted the post soon after it was placed there. My beliefs are. 1. QRZ AKA AA7BQ no longer has the amateur radio attitude. 2. AA7BQ has gone fully commercial but calls his site "The Ham Radio Super Site" 3. AA7BQ does not have your best interest in mind. I can also prove what I am writing here. For one if he claims he is nothing but a commercial site then why does he ask for donations? If he is not a commercial site than why will he not allow me to post my CIV cables on his site? That takes care of number 2 Now for number 1 and 3. If some one knows the truth about something but keeps it from you he is a liar. No mater how you put it, he is a liar. On the QRZ site Fred is there to help you renew your license. Or so he leads you to believe so. He charges you for it. Mr. Lloyd has never revealed it to any amateurs that you can renew your license or do an address change at the fcc.gov web site for FREE. Yes TOTAL FREE at the FCC web site. The forms at the FCC web site or no harder to fill out than his. His CD. He charges 24.95 plus tax and shipping. On that CD is data he obtained from the FCC and got it for FREE, he sales it to you. Also he has software, created by programmers like MYSELF. And MODS that have been made available from the manufactures and other HAMS like ME! I have been contributing to Amateur Radio community for greater than 10 years, and have received very little for software I created. Never complained when it was copied. I have performed and created several of the MODS for various transceivers. Never asked a penny for it. I never commercialized HAM RADIO. And NEVER took money from some one for something they could get FREE else where. I am sure many of you would like to ask me "what I am going to do about it?" Here is my answer. I have created an open forum on my web site http://www.n9zle.com/forum/ There you can post a link to your own site even if it is a commercial site. You can post any ham radio equipment you have for sell on the site. You can do a callsign lookup at my site from the FCC database, not that stupid qrz thing. I will soon put together an open source database that I will sell for the price of the CD plus the true cost of shipping. About two bucks total. Once you install the database on your system, you will be able to download updates for FREE. I will make drivers available to programmers to access the database in several different languages and operating systems. I will also attempt to make the database available on the internet for FREE to download. I only ask for a little help from other HAMS like myself. I need a few elmers that are willing to moderate some of the forums. It is easy and you will find it fun. If you have any suggestions on new forums or sections please logon to my site and make a post. 73s N9ZLE Article: 51146 of rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc From: "Charles Brabham" References: <1135759372.340028.322290@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Subject: USPacket Message-ID: Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 23:15:23 GMT For the best compilation of info on operating Packet, stop by at http://www.uspacket.org Charles, N5PVL