Huntington Beach RACES

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The hbraces.org has been moved to the new provider.

Here’s a short quicktime movie that shows how to register for this site and receive emails of new posts.   hbraces-register

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]