Huntington Beach Fire Department Welcomes 2010 RACES Officers
Posted on December 11th, 2009 by w6gos / Add Comment »
2010 RACES Officers and Management Team
Old site moved
Posted on February 7th, 2009 by wd6awp / Add Comment »
The hbraces.org has been moved to the new provider. The URL http://www.hbraces.org will take you to our new WordPress site at http://hbraces.net within the next 48 hours. Typically changes propagate through the DNS system fairly quickly but it may take up to 48 hours. You may have to close your browser and/or clear your browser cache before you see the new site.
Our email addresses email address @hbraces.org have been moved also and are subject to the same 48 hour DNS delay.
The HB RACES mail list servers (officers, members, and pager) are no longer operational.
We’ll have more details at the general membership meeting on Monday, February 9. Be sure to attend to get the latest information.
73, WD6AWP
How to Register
Posted on December 31st, 2008 by wd6awp / Add Comment »
Here’s a short quicktime movie that shows how to register for this site and receive emails of new posts.
Roster
Posted on December 23rd, 2008 by wd6awp / Add Comment »
Manny wrote to me asking how the new roster works. He wondered if he should he be making database updates on the new site or the old? That’s a good question and it calls for a post on the subject.
The old site is still the system of record for the user database. Continue to make your updates there. On the day the old site is taken down I’ll move the database to the new site. When the old site is gone you’ll know to use the new site for database updates. I’ll post when the old site is taken down.
Currently the new site has a copy of the database I made a few days ago. The old login ID will work for viewing on the new site but I don’t know your editor IDs. If you want to send that to me in an email I’ll set it up on the new server for you.
Yahoo! Group
Posted on December 22nd, 2008 by wd6awp / Add Comment »
There is a discussion group over on Yahoo! Groups called HBRACES. I’ve been thinking about using that to replace the Mailman List server we have over on hbraces.org. Problem is I don’t know who the owner of that group is. I’ve posted to the group and none of the few members know or respond. I’ve also sent an email to the -owner with no response thus far.
But I’m wondering if we really even need the group? With the features we have here on our new WordPress site maybe we have all we need to communicate among ourselves. After all, we are hams — we are communicators. Do we need email and/or forum software to keep up to date?
WordPress 2.7 Upgrade
Posted on December 20th, 2008 by wd6awp / Add Comment »
Hopefully nobody will notice that the site has been upgraded to version 2.7 of WordPress. But if you do see something wonkie let me know in the comments.
Sign Up for SMS Alerts
Posted on December 16th, 2008 by wd6awp / Add Comment »
On our prior web site we had a mailing list server called Mailman. Mailman is not available on our new web site. But we do have SMS, Short Message Service. With SMS we can text messages to your cell phone and alert you of important RACES activities.
While the old web site isn’t going away immediately, we need to start testing this SMS system to make sure it fits out needs. Keep in mind we are only testing at this time. We may abandon it and/or ask you to sign up for another service at a later date.
Please use the SMS Sign Up item on the sidebar to subscribe. Just enter your 10 digit phone number and select your provider. We’ll start sending test SMS text messages in the very near future.
If you run into any problems when subscribing please email me.
Welcome
Posted on December 15th, 2008 by wd6awp / 2 Comments »
Welcome to the new Huntington Beach RACES site based on Wordpress. This site has more disk storage, more bandwidth and more features than we had with our old provider. N6RAS, N6MEL, and myself all use this provider for our own sites and have good results.
The primary goal of this new site is to create a more dynamic Web site where we can keep up to date on all of our RACES activites. You are encouraged to use the many features of our new site to communicate with your fellow RACES members. Please use the link to register and participate.
enjoy, WD6AWP
