The site this one replaces looked current. It was not: it advertised a repeater on a tower the machine had left, a controller that had been voted out, a net on a machine reported inoperative, and an autopatch dead since 2015. Nothing on it was a lie. It had simply stopped being checked, and nothing on the page said so.
Every fact carries a grade
- Measured — somebody checked this directly and wrote down when.
- Sourced — it comes from a document in the Society’s own archive, and the record names the file.
- Unverified — it is the last thing written down, and nobody has confirmed it since. Most of the radio infrastructure on this site sits here.
A grade is not a disclaimer. It is a work list: everything marked unverified is something one member with a radio and ten minutes could turn into a measured fact.
Some things are computed, so they cannot rot
- The next meeting is derived from the constitution’s rule — second Friday, 6:30 P.M. — and shows the rule alongside the date.
- The dateline counts days since the newest document in the archive and turns red past 120 days. It sits on the front page where it cannot be missed.
- The archive counts come from the archive itself.
Nothing that can be derived is typed in twice. Two copies of a fact are two chances for it to disagree with itself — which is exactly how the old site came to print the net at 8 P.M. in one place and 9 P.M. in another for years.
What is deliberately not here
- Members’ names, callsigns, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses.
- The membership roster.
- Storm-spotter observer post locations.
- Memorial text for Silent Keys, which belongs to families rather than to a web server.
The Society keeps all of that in its own files and builds its own private content locally. This public site is generated from a seed that contains none of it.
If you find something wrong
Say so on the reflector or at a meeting. A correction is more useful than a compliment, and an out-of-date page somebody has flagged is in better shape than one nobody has read.