My K3UK Sked Pages are now restored after the site was hacked on Friday. For security purposes my ISP re-set my web site and deleted all files . The site has the same address but has been upgraded to a different server (supposedly better, faster). My apologies to the may users that were inconvenienced , thanks also to Joe N8FQ for keeping the back-up site running. the back-up site at http://www.electroblog.com/sked/ will eventually re-direct you back to the main site later this weekend. You will have to re-enter your callsign and a few other brief items.
A few other changes.. Since the site had to start from scratch , some of the lesser know sked pages are not running because the files were deleted. The AVRA Sked page has been moved to the main site. AVRA members should now point their browsers to http://www.obriensweb.com/sked/ and click on the AVRA tab. Lighthouse , WAB and French sked sites have not been replaced. The FISTS page is shared with the QRP groups . QRP related "tweets" from QRPspots will remain directed to the FISTS page. The WARC-CC sked page is fully functional, now that I have restored that, I will work on updating the WARC-CC web page and restore the membership search able database, The digitalradio sked page is also restored with updated calling frequencies. Links to my various digital mode guides will be restored gradually over the enxt few days. My personal web page at http://www.obriensweb.com/ has been revamped to. The site hack did not do any damage, and most of the delay in restoring backups was due to my ISP needing to re-set my site. My ISP said that the hack involved sending of spam. I am not sure what was sent, if you are aware of any increase in spam to your email address, let me know. The increase in spam to the digitalradio yahoo group is an interesting coincidence but the 30-40 spam messages per day to digitalradio are being caught and not getting through to the list. The Sked pages ask for email addresses but they are optional and provided simply for hams to arrange skeds via email, if desired. If you are worried about the security of your email address, do not enter one in the sign-up cookie. I always use a gmail email address that is easily turned off if I get spam. I save my 'real" email address for rare situations and never give that out to web sites. Thanks to the may users that support the site. FYI, the deleted user database has 2500 ham callsigns registered and we have regularly seen 100 our so simultaneous connections. That keeps my ISP's servers hopping with several gigs of data per week(!) being exchanged. Also nice to see mention of our pages in various ham magazines lately. Andy K3UK
