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    From Daryl Stout@618:250/33 to All on Mon Apr 25 14:29:05 2022
    Last week, I had posted a message that the Hamdata.com website was no
    longer accessible, due to non-secure SSL format and data. It won't work
    with any of the web browsers on my computers, but I discovered I had a
    link to it on my smartphone, and the data still works there.

    So, sometime on Tuesday and Friday of each week, I will get this data
    from the smartphone, and post a message out, regarding the latest ham
    radio callsigns for the United States and its territories.

    I had originally bookmarked the link on my smartphone to tell those
    at a license exam session the latest issued callsign in the region, or
    to look up a callsign to see if it was possibly available as a vanity
    callsign.

    As noted in another message, individuals must now pay $35 to the FCC,
    for a new or renewed amateur radio license, or for a vanity callsign
    change requests. There is no charge for a sequential callsign change
    request, a change in name, email or mailing adddress, or club trustee.
    For more info, go to https://www.arrl.org/fcc-application-fee

    Daryl Stout, WX4QZ, UALR Ham Radio Club VE Team Liaison
    --- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32
    * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (618:250/33)
  • From Sean Dennis@618:618/1 to Daryl Stout on Tue Apr 26 10:50:57 2022
    Hello Daryl,

    25 Apr 22 14:29, you wrote to All:

    Last week, I had posted a message that the Hamdata.com website was
    no longer accessible, due to non-secure SSL format and data. It won't
    work with any of the web browsers on my computers, but I discovered I
    had a link to it on my smartphone, and the data still works there.

    I was able to get to that website using Firefox just fine. Chrome is overly anal about security (which is absolutely silly since the stuff on Hamdata is public record anyway) and while the owners of Hamdata need to fix their broken website, it is still functional.

    My website(s) are designed to work with or without https. I have nothing on any of my websites that is not meant for public view so while my webhost offers free SSL certs for my websites, I don't openly advertise it. I think it's silly at times that a simple website with public info on it has to be "secure" like that. A site with highly personal info like banking? Sure. But a site that regurgitates public information? Not so much.

    -- Sean

    ... Confession is good for the soul but bad for your career.
    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707
    * Origin: Outpost BBS * Johnson City, TN (618:618/1)
  • From Daryl Stout@618:250/33 to Sean Dennis on Wed Apr 27 08:06:00 2022
    Sean,

    I was able to get to that website using Firefox just fine. Chrome is overly anal about security (which is absolutely silly since the stuff
    on Hamdata is public record anyway) and while the owners of Hamdata
    need to fix their broken website, it is still functional.

    I found I could look up the latest callsigns with a link on my smartphone, using the DuckDuckGo search engine.

    My website(s) are designed to work with or without https. I have
    nothing on any of my websites that is not meant for public view so
    while my webhost offers free SSL certs for my websites, I don't openly advertise it. I think it's silly at times that a simple website with public info on it has to be "secure" like that. A site with highly personal info like banking? Sure. But a site that regurgitates public information? Not so much.

    I created a file I give to prospective ham radio license examinees, telling them what info they need to bring to the exam session, and what info will be "public". I think back to the "user verification" with the dial-up BBS days, where it asked for a users street address...noting "this must be a valid
    street address...no one lives in a mailbox". For that matter, none of us
    could fit in one. <G>

    Daryl

    ... Alert: Scanner shows Sysop in the area. Look innocent!!
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