As if my time was not already limited in what I can do aside from my shifts at the Board and Care, yesterday I had to wrestle with incompetence!
My story goes back to December 15, 2024, when I received a receipt from Go Daddy in the amount of $300 that renewed my SSL certificates for many of my websites. Yesterday morning a blog reader alerted me one of my websites was not "secure" and if you clicked on the link you ended up at a Porn site.
It took three calls to Go Daddy and now the site is secure, and you do not see the porn redirect. Actually, you do not see anything as the index page is a black screen. I should change that to blue so it's like the Microshaft BSOD. (BSOD = Blue Screen Of Death)
At 1st Go Daddy tried to suggest it was my fault for the redirect to the porn site since I built the site. That web site is over 15 years old, and I have not uploaded or changed any pages on the site in over a year. Plain and simple Go Daddy did not implement the renewal of the SSL for the site and Chinese Hackers took advantage. Chinese hackers attempted a run on another site of mine so there is a history here.
It was incompetence at Go Daddy, and we should expect to see more of that as January 20 looms large and the "best people" take over the helm.
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A $199.91 Special on eBay
This rig is a replica of a rig which graced the pages of QST before it became an advertising brochure for Far East electronic suppliers. The original used a 6V6 and the coil was spider web wound on popsicle sticks. It was my 1st rig, and I had one rock on 3709 kHz as that was in the 80M Novice band in 1959. For a pair of ears, I used a converted ARC-5 (BC454) which I bought for $3.50. I think my whole station cost all of $20. Somewhere in my storage bins I still have the 3709 kHz rock from 66 years ago.
I built the 6V6 Rig again in 2021 See the Video
The $199.91 does not include a power supply. With appropriate respect to the supplier this rig is something that a ham with modest skills and simple hand tools could build for way less than $200. Regrettably many hams (lots who are amateur extras) wouldn't know where to start. I already see a place where the FT-82-43 core with 73 turns could sub for the 2.5mHy RF choke. Them that know can make it go.
73's
Pete N6QW