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Beaches On The Air - BOTA

Discussion in 'Contests, DXpeditions, QSO Parties, Special Events' started by EC1CW, Dec 19, 2015.

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  1. W7UUU

    W7UUU Director, QRZ Forums Lifetime Member 133 QRZ HQ Staff Life Member QRZ Page

    Your website sure seems to be down a LOT. Any plans to get it back running reliably?

    I have several activations to upload but on the rare chance the site is working, I hit "preview" and it never loads. I try to load comments from other folks and it never loads. Just spins and spins and spins.

    Hopefully you get it going before folks just lose interest and move on.

    Dave
    W7UUU
     
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  2. W7UUU

    W7UUU Director, QRZ Forums Lifetime Member 133 QRZ HQ Staff Life Member QRZ Page

    EDIT: I flushed my DNS cache - still no love. Your site is just down I guess. It's down a LOT actually :(

    I do hope you get it fixed - gotta be something at your hosting agency I would guess...?

    Dave
    W7UUU
     
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  3. EC1CW

    EC1CW Ham Member QRZ Page

    The site has not been down for everyone. Only for some users, and usually active users like you. Regular vistors could access the site with no problems.

    The hosting provider was not giving us any satisfactory solution, so we have just migrated to a new host.

    We expect www.beachesontheair.com will work for everyone soon. In fact, it is already working for many, and I hope it will be in your case too.

    Your feedback will be much appreciated.

    73 de Diego EC1CW
     
  4. W7UUU

    W7UUU Director, QRZ Forums Lifetime Member 133 QRZ HQ Staff Life Member QRZ Page

    Thanks for all your efforts Diego getting the site working better! It seems fine today and I was able to add my 2 activations over the weekend. I really look forward to activating a lot of beaches in my area this spring and summer.

    Thanks for all you're doing!

    Dave
    W7UUU
     
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  5. EC1CW

    EC1CW Ham Member QRZ Page

  6. 9W2ZOW

    9W2ZOW Ham Member QRZ Page

    Hi, can you kindly add our country, Malaysia?

    I have visit the "Countries & Entities" page. Yet, I cannot find any beaches of Malaysia. Thank you.
     
  7. KO7T

    KO7T Premium Subscriber QRZ Page

    All of SE Asia seems to be missing.
    I will be operating in Vung Tau Front Beach until May 13 as XV9WJR.
    Can I play, or is this US/Euro centric?

    BJ
    WA7WJR
    XV9WJR
     
  8. 9W2ZOW

    9W2ZOW Ham Member QRZ Page

    You are right. I'm not sure whether the problem is in their main website or anything else.
     
  9. EC1CW

    EC1CW Ham Member QRZ Page

    Beaches On The Air is a global program that has more than 31,000 beaches listed all around the world. We make every effort to be as inclusive as possible, by sponsoring the creation of beach lists where they do not exist, and by allowing the addition of individual beaches where full lists cannot be created. Our latest beach lists have been for KwaZulu-Natal-South Africa, Hong Kong, and Belgium. Indonesia has also been very active lately through the activation of individual beaches.
     
  10. VK3YE

    VK3YE Ham Member QRZ Page

    This program means well but needs more work before it can be widely understood or accepted.

    Other programs eg SOTA and WWFF have guidelines as to what summits/reserves qualify and which don't.

    What defines a 'beach'? Where does a beach start and where does one finish? Are there easy to understand criteria for this?

    The "international impact of the activation" at http://www.beachesontheair.com/content/single-beach-listing-application is difficult to satisfy for big countries where working any other country is long-haul DX.

    And what's the deal with asking for cash ($5 or $10 - it's not clear!) in exchange for getting a new beach listed? http://www.beachesontheair.com/content/single-beach-listing-application

    It doesn't look right to be taking money from hams without explaining things a bit more.
     
  11. EC1CW

    EC1CW Ham Member QRZ Page

    We have listed 31,000+ beaches so far and continue adding country lists every year, using as complete and objective data as possible, often from environmental protection agencies. There are some people for whom this is not enough, and ask for the inclusion of their favourite beach that is absent from an existing list.

    Analysing individual beach listing applications is very costly, and we want to discourage that by means of an application fee and more stringent requirements, such as the ones you mention, which do not apply to regular activations. The purpose is to encourage people to help us find complete and objective beach lists for their countries that everyone can benefit from.

    Australia is a case in point. For that country we managed to put together beach lists for two regions only, but not for the rest of the country. Yet we know that there is an Australian professor at Sydney, Andrew Short, that has compiled a list of 11,671 beaches (https://www.wanderlust.co.uk/content/introducing-australias-professor-of-beaches/). If anyone gets us that list instead of pushing for the inclusion of their favourite beach, they will pay 0€ for 11K beaches for them and their fellow Australian hams instead of 5€ for one beach, and everyone will be happier.

    Having said all that, we appreciate the content and the constructive approach of your comment. We acknowledge that Beaches On The Air is far away from other programmes such as SOTA, for instance, and that there is a lot of work to do. Let's do it together. Come join us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/beachesontheair/!
     
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