CollegeARC Reaches 1 Month Mark

Well www.CollegeARC.com the College Amateur Radio Club Association is one month old! We have learned a lot about starting a community, it's been one heck of a ride to say the least. Slowly but surely the website is taking form and people are signing up. We now have roughly 47 users and a core group of people who are on almost daily. CollegeARC receives about 100 unique IP address visitors and roughly 400 page views daily. Not bad for the first month.

Recently the featured article list was updated to a MUCH better looking let alone the improvement in usability. One problem that has absolutely been a pain to try and fix is SEO or Search Engine Optimization. Using the core Joomla 1.5 SEO with the Search Engine Friendly (SEF) links causes the user to not be able to login or logout (if already logged in when activated). I have the .htaccess file modified and played around with commenting the RewrightBase / line. Any suggestions would be VERY VERY VERY appreciated.




Bryce Salmi KB1LQC
www.CollegeARC.com

CollegeARC.com

CollegeARC.com is experiencing a lot of interest and it continues to get busier! We quite literally DOUBLED our bandwidth in 12 hours (Cool!). A few new updates to announce

• Posting articles is currently disabled due to a small bug that is being fixed
• Comments work fine now
• Registration works great
• follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/CollegeARC

Please share the website and let as many people as possible know about it! The success of the website is up to those who are involved with it. We hope you you share some of the enthusiasm for spreading Amateur Radio (ham) and inspiring younger people to enjoy the hobby!

CollegeARC.com to Debute Sunday August 30th!

CollegeARC.com will be debuting Sunday August 30, 2009 at midnight EST. This is 0400 UTC and can be thought of at Saturday night/Sunday Morning. We hope all who are interested can visit and help make this site a success by influencing college radio clubs to become active and grow!

Hustler 5BTV Antenna Series

A collection of my posts documenting installation and tuning of the Hustler 5BTV Antenna by the New-Tronics Corporation:

1. Hustler 5BTV Antenna Radial Installation
2. Hustler 5BTV Antenna Completed
3. Hustler 5BTV Antenna Performance Results