What the Heck is with eHam?

[N2NH]

I haven't been able to load up eHam for nearly a week now. Is someone doing a denial of service to them? WTF is going on? I keep looking to find some reviews there, but I can't even get the home page to load up.

Maybe it's me, or maybe it's something in this area, but I've never seen it so hard to get them for more than a day or so.

[KG4CGC]

It's like they just ain't there.
This reeks of Frank!

[W2NAP]

Unable to connect

Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.eham.net (http://www.eham.net).

[N2NH]

Yeh, I came across a comparison between the Drake twins and the Kenwood twins. Looked very interesting (I've always had the hots for the Kenwood twins - R-499 and T-499) but it looks like no twins tonight.

*SIGH.*

:slap:

[N7RJD]

Loads right up. Must be fixed.

[kf0rt]

Works here, too.

[W4GPL]

Same here.

[N8YX]

Yeh, I came across a comparison between the Drake twins and the Kenwood twins. Looked very interesting (I've always had the hots for the Kenwood twins - R-499 and T-499) but it looks like no twins tonight.

*SIGH.*

:slap:
R-599 and T-599.

In short:

Hot receiver; no WARC bands and no way to add them. Minimal controls - no notch filter, PBT and so forth. Options for 6 and 2M VHF receive converters; make sure you get them and the transceive cable if buying a set.

The R-599 has a "CB" position on the bandswitch. Yaesu also did this with their FR-101 series receivers, which were produced during the same time frame.

Modes are AM, FM, SSB and CW. Filters are available for AM and CW. The squelch control along with the band-select and selectivity switches have a chintzy paddle arrangement on the knob that's been known to come apart.

Having used a set, I would give them a 4 out of 5. They're nice but they're not a "B" or "C" line.

Get the "A" or "D" twins or a "D" transmitter/"S" receiver combination if possible. The standard "T-599" lacks features of the later transmitters.

That said...if money permits and high-performance is paramount:

Look into a TS-820S/R-820 or TR7/R7 "pair". Or you can get crafty like I did and slave a Kenwood TS-440S to an R-5000...

[N8YX]

By the way - there's a very nice "complete" set on eBay at the moment. If you're in the market for a pair of "twins" I would grab it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/VERY-NICE-KENWOOD-TWINS-SPEAKER-R-599A-T-599A-S-599_W0QQitemZ220483511583QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_Def aultDomain_0?hash=item3355d7651f&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

Charlie doesn't sell junk, from what I understand. These should be in proper order.

[KG4CGC]

I'd check with ELF. They may have tried to crash the site. Frank is their leader.

[n6hcm]

from eham:

Since yesterday morning (tuesday) we have been having some site performance issues. We are working on them and hope to have things back to normal as soon as possible. Our work will require taking the site offline at least one more time in the next 24 hours as we work to resolve our hardware issues.

Yesterday (Tuesday 22-Sept-2009) the data center that hosts the eHam.net servers suffered a major power event. The power went down for the entire data center due to some sort of failure in their UPS system.

This power event has affected one of our raid storage arrays and is causing our site to be sluggish during normal high loads.

We appreciate your patience.

Thank you,

George Fremin III and The eHam.net team

[N2NH]

Thanks guys. I've been getting it off and on. I don't frequent it as much as the Island and QRZ, but I like being able to go and see some of the reviews.