Facebook

At the prompting of some church associates, I have launched into yet another Internet domain: Facebook.com. This is a "social networking" site, made popular as a gathering place for young people, typically of university age.

There appears to be room for some of us senior citizens, too. There are groups for amateur radio, politics, religion, and other areas of life.

Yale Alumni and student hams: Note that we have a W1YU Group. (You will need to be a member of the "Yale Network" to join. For that you will need a *.yale.edu email address, which alumni can get from the AYA: aya.yale.edu, specifically, here.)

Known by the company we keep

I see we made the big time with a listing in AwfulBlogs.

You know what the doctor says, when you say "it hurts when I do this"? He says, "well then don't do it any more."

Moving on...

Dynamic DNS -- letter to QST

Dear Editor:

Carl Ferguson's (W4UOA) article "Remote Control over the Internet" (QST, February, 2006, p. 62) was very informative. There is a lot of unexplored territory in the combination of ham radio and the Internet.

Let me point a cheaper way to set up your own Internet domain. Namely, free! Set up a Dyndns.org account, as Carl says, but select "Dynamic DNS" service. For up to 5 separate computers, you can select a name like callsign.ham-radio-op.org, callsign.dyndns.org, or many others. Because you are establishing a sub-domain instead of a primary domain name, you do not need to purchase the "custom DNS" service. The IP address updating software (such as DirectUpdate) works almost the same either way.

There are several alternative suppliers for "dynamic DNS services". Try an Internet search.

Martin Ewing AA6E
Branford, CT

p.s. A thoroughly modern ARRL could provide this DDNS service for the membership: providing "your-callsign.arrl.net" to point to a home machine or web hosting service.

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