Quite a few amateur radio related groups have migrated to groups.io from Yahoo. The latter has made changes which seem to be a backward step.
You may want to search to see if your favourite groups have moved. Just starting a new .io group is free, but migrating an old Yahoo group across (complete with messages, file and photos) can cost money. Most have created new groups.
See https://groups.io/
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Showing posts with label groups. Show all posts
18 Jan 2020
18 Oct 2019
New .io groups formed
As I hosted several Yahoo groups (that are closing) new groups have been on groups.io . Transferring groups involves money whereas creating new ones does not (I hope!). Notices have been posted in the Yahoo groups encouraging people to join and transfer across any files and photos which should be kept. At the moment, these new groups are awaiting approval. One thing that will not be saved is old messages.
Below are the old and new groups.
miraclewhip miracleantennas
sub9kHzamateurradio sub9khz
vhfam vhfam
Below are the old and new groups.
miraclewhip miracleantennas
sub9kHzamateurradio sub9khz
vhfam vhfam
15 Aug 2017
6 Jul 2016
Yahoo oddity
Recently I had great difficulty approving members of my VHF AM Yahoo Group. I was using Firefox, which I'd been using for years. Changing to Microsoft Edge and I had no problems at all and they were approved in seconds. I am using Windows 10. I wonder if anyone else has had similar issues? Odd.
23 Apr 2016
Miracle Whip Yahoo Group
It is some while since I last used my Miracle Whip antenna, although I still moderate the Miracle Whip Yahoo Group which has nearly 1500 members.
Some of the SPAM I intercept is amusing. More often than not these are to the group owner and promise me all sorts of sexual favours. I think they think the group is another sort! How wrong they are. Most messages are filtered so it is rare for these to get to the group. As soon as seen, they are deleted. The group has a low tolerance of SPAM.
For those who don't know the Miracle Whip and its derivatives is a small, self contained QRP antenna. On the higher HF bands with a counterpoise it works quite well. My best DX using it indoors was with the FT817 to Argentina over 11000kms on QRP SSB. This was on 10m. It works as well as a 56 inch whip will do if well matched. Do not expect miracles!
See https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/miraclewhip/info .
See http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/hamantht/miracle.jpg. The image is theirs and is linked here. The image is not on this site.
Some of the SPAM I intercept is amusing. More often than not these are to the group owner and promise me all sorts of sexual favours. I think they think the group is another sort! How wrong they are. Most messages are filtered so it is rare for these to get to the group. As soon as seen, they are deleted. The group has a low tolerance of SPAM.
See https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/miraclewhip/info .
See http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/hamantht/miracle.jpg. The image is theirs and is linked here. The image is not on this site.
4 Jun 2012
A very sad day
Do you get days when everything goes wrong? Today was one of these for me.
A few weeks ago I suggested, after a long 5 day outage, that the RSGB LF-reflector migrated to a Yahoo Group. In my experience Yahoo groups are great: messages, files and photo storage and a great way to share and archive information with others of like mind. In over 15 years I have rarely had problems with any of the groups to which I belong.
After a few weeks, the group leader G3WKL decided to make the move to a Yahoo group having "taken the temperature" of the original group members. Then the "fun" began: a few people objected and started a flame war and I was centre stage of the hate, in particular from one particularly nasty and forthright individual. I could name him but will not stoop so low.
My intentions were good: I wanted to let people know that all they did with the original Blacksheep mailing list could still be done, but so much more too. Things like archiving of messages, 100GB of both file and photo storage etc.
The resulting avalanche of nasty and ill-informed posts, many of which were directed at me, has frankly sickened me. My faith in the hobby has been shattered by the bad feeling and unkindness of a few ill-informed individuals.
Amateur radio is usually a friendly and helpful community but in the last few days I have seen an altogether different and darker side of it, one which shames the community.
To be honest, I have never been nearer to throwing in the towel and taking up another hobby. This is indeed a very sad day.
A few weeks ago I suggested, after a long 5 day outage, that the RSGB LF-reflector migrated to a Yahoo Group. In my experience Yahoo groups are great: messages, files and photo storage and a great way to share and archive information with others of like mind. In over 15 years I have rarely had problems with any of the groups to which I belong.
After a few weeks, the group leader G3WKL decided to make the move to a Yahoo group having "taken the temperature" of the original group members. Then the "fun" began: a few people objected and started a flame war and I was centre stage of the hate, in particular from one particularly nasty and forthright individual. I could name him but will not stoop so low.
My intentions were good: I wanted to let people know that all they did with the original Blacksheep mailing list could still be done, but so much more too. Things like archiving of messages, 100GB of both file and photo storage etc.
The resulting avalanche of nasty and ill-informed posts, many of which were directed at me, has frankly sickened me. My faith in the hobby has been shattered by the bad feeling and unkindness of a few ill-informed individuals.
Amateur radio is usually a friendly and helpful community but in the last few days I have seen an altogether different and darker side of it, one which shames the community.
To be honest, I have never been nearer to throwing in the towel and taking up another hobby. This is indeed a very sad day.
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