Hi everybody
You may be interested in how uBITx.net is
going.
To date in February 2018, there have been
170,000 page hits, with 14220
visits by 8214 unique visitors.?
Together, all those 8000+ uBITx fans
have shifted 14Gb of data! This shows
just how big the interest is in
the uBITx.? I host around 25 sites, and
this is now our second most
popular site.
I am still catching up with reading new
emails on the list posted during
the last few days.? I have been otherwise
occupied with a visit by
Eugeny UA3AHM and time out at the
saltmine.
Since the site launch less than a month
ago,? a total of 68 news stories
have been posted.? There will be a few
more posted today. These stories
are running about 3 per day, drawn
primarily from the approx. 100 email
postings a day on the BITX20 email list
(i.e. 3% of all emails to the
list are "news worthy").? This is a
pretty interesting statistic in itself.
I am still gob-smacked by the extent of
hacking already going on with
the uBITx ...? eclipsing a year's worth
of hacking on the BITX40. There
are already three software variants
available - each with unique
features.?? Clearly, Ashhar Farhan has a
tiger by the tail, as he has
two months of back orders of the uBITx to
clear before shipping ex stock.
Hopefully, ubitx.net is filling a helpful
niche in the ecosystem for the
uBITx.? It's purpose is to document and
categorise that which is of
enduring value from the BITX20 list about
the uBITx. I have not had the
time I would like to distill out the
"nuggets" into guidance like I had
hoped.?? However, I guess that will come
with time ... It would also be
nice to find the time to work on hacking
my own uBITx! ? But I do hope
to get into the workshop this weekend and
work on an interesting mod of
one of my BITX40s.
Don't forget that you can volunteer to
help out with uBITx.net. It would
be great to have one or two others
assisting with the daily collation of
news items.? This takes an hour or two a
day at most...? I can prepare a
simple guide? to assist volunteers in
managing this.? No coding skills
are needed ... just good editing skills,
and the ability to track down
an appropriate graphic to go with each
item.
73? Mike ZL1AXG
--
Mike Woods
