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I can and will assume whoever is behind this is most definitely not a ham operator nor someone in that community on account of the website not looking like something from 1995.

If there's anything I found to be common of all the ham operators I've met or heard of, it's that they're all electrical engineers at heart with not a single fuck in the world available for form or aesthetics. Jank and old-fashioned are their pride and passion.

Source: Father is ham operator, has the time of his life janking it up with his ham friends who likewise jank it up.

P.S. Not supporting POP3 is asinine.

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Hello! I am the person that made this service. I am a relatively new ham and I thought the domain was cool so I picked it up. I'm a high-school student, lol

POP3 is supported, by the way, I just didn't list it. That's my fault https://docs.mailcow.email/client/client-manual/

I'm happy to be pleasantly proven otherwise, wishing you best of luck.

Kudos on POP3 support. I never liked IMAP as I've always preferred to keep my emails between the server and client stored independently. Call me old fashioned, albeit in a different vector from hams.

I’m a licensed operator and I’m not an electrical engineer, I got my license in order to operate a radio telescope when I was a physicist. Websites I build are more modern than this, and I do have one for ham radio resources. There’s your counterexample.

I am unfamiliar with how radio telescopes work, do you transmit as well as receive on them? If you transmit, I assume you send your callsign as well every 10 minutes? Do you run into issues staying below 1500W/200W PEP?

I was sending not very high powered pulse signals at the time and observing response signals. The signals were automated with gnuradio. Callsign was part of my automated sequence, sent periodically.

Now, most of the work done with radio telescopes are passive, but they are really just large dishes capable of receiving any radio signal, including ham stuff.

There is so much truth to this statement -- all ham websites, even my own are straight HTML or at least 10-15 years behind modern web standards... and we like it that way.

Well, not a ham operator myself, but one of my friends (a Swede, living parttime in Denmark, married to a Dutch woman) is one, and has an IT business in which he (also) delivers websites. So I guess, anecdotally, not all ham operators are 10-15 years behind. (Actually, he even operates from e.g. his car, operating either his Sweden or his Denmark radio through his ‘microphone connected to it’ using a ‘very long cable running through the internet’. Not really old school there.)

I know the person behind this personally and can attest that they are a licensed ham.

What is their callsign? It is public record.

KQ4GVP (that's me!)

I don't mean to be crass, but a ~2 year old HN account with no discernible attachment to a real-world identity, and 38 karma, means nothing.

You can google their username which looks like a pretty discernible attachment to a real-world identity to me.

Oooh, check out Mr. Five-digit-user-id over here (for the kids: an old /. reference).

The user name is their radio callsign, which you can look up in the FCC database. I don't know how much more attachment to a "real-world identity" you're looking for.

Ad-hominem much? It sure matters who the person in question making the statement is, but what's particularly relevant here, and to my comment, is that it's not easily discernible who they are.

I'm a ham but not an EE. Got licensed for use while offshore sailing.

Often Amateur Radio websites are functional at low bandwidth as the hobby is in some way designed for use when the main systems fail.

Still a lot of truth to your comment.

Hammie here. Can confirm. :-)

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