Catastrophe - Where are KA9Q's Web Pages?


Andy G4JNT
 

Phil Karn, KA9Q used to have a wonderful web site at ka9q.net where he had innumerable papers on software, DSP coding, error correction, EME- everything interesting.    It's gone, that URL is up for grabs.   Is there an archive?   WHy has it gone?

I've got a couple of his papers in hard copy only and need to follow references and things.

Tragedy


Dave (G1OGY)
 

Andy
From Mr Karn's QRZ page...

<cite>
Website: www.ka9q.net (note - down at present; web operator lost files
and I haven't had a chance to restore yet)
Last modified: 2022-09-24 06:55:14,
</cite>

73


Dave, G1OGY


On Sun, 27 Nov 2022 at 11:34, Andy G4JNT <andy.g4jnt@...> wrote:
Phil Karn, KA9Q used to have a wonderful web site at ka9q.net where he had innumerable papers on software, DSP coding, error correction, EME- everything interesting.    It's gone, that URL is up for grabs.   Is there an archive?   WHy has it gone?

I've got a couple of his papers in hard copy only and need to follow references and things.

Tragedy


Andy G4JNT
 

Oh dear



On Sun, 27 Nov 2022 at 12:09, Dave (G1OGY) <g1ogy@...> wrote:
Andy
From Mr Karn's QRZ page...

<cite>
Website: www.ka9q.net (note - down at present; web operator lost files
and I haven't had a chance to restore yet)
Last modified: 2022-09-24 06:55:14,
</cite>

73


Dave, G1OGY


On Sun, 27 Nov 2022 at 11:34, Andy G4JNT <andy.g4jnt@...> wrote:
Phil Karn, KA9Q used to have a wonderful web site at ka9q.net where he had innumerable papers on software, DSP coding, error correction, EME- everything interesting.    It's gone, that URL is up for grabs.   Is there an archive?   WHy has it gone?

I've got a couple of his papers in hard copy only and need to follow references and things.

Tragedy


Lehane Kellett G8KMH
 

Andy,
wayback seems to have archived a lot of the pages. e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20210224000222/http://www.ka9q.net/bpsk1000.html

73
Lehane G8KMH





-------- Original message --------
From: Andy G4JNT <andy.g4jnt@...>
Date: 27/11/2022 12:38 (GMT+00:00)
To: UKMicrowaves@groups.io
Subject: Re: [UKMicrowaves] Catastrophe - Where are KA9Q's Web Pages?

Oh dear



On Sun, 27 Nov 2022 at 12:09, Dave (G1OGY) <g1ogy@...> wrote:
Andy
From Mr Karn's QRZ page...

<cite>
Website: www.ka9q.net (note - down at present; web operator lost files
and I haven't had a chance to restore yet)
Last modified: 2022-09-24 06:55:14,
</cite>

73


Dave, G1OGY


On Sun, 27 Nov 2022 at 11:34, Andy G4JNT <andy.g4jnt@...> wrote:
Phil Karn, KA9Q used to have a wonderful web site at ka9q.net where he had innumerable papers on software, DSP coding, error correction, EME- everything interesting.    It's gone, that URL is up for grabs.   Is there an archive?   WHy has it gone?

I've got a couple of his papers in hard copy only and need to follow references and things.

Tragedy


Robin Szemeti - G1YFG
 

There is always archive.org


On Sun, 27 Nov 2022, 11:34 Andy G4JNT, <andy.g4jnt@...> wrote:
Phil Karn, KA9Q used to have a wonderful web site at ka9q.net where he had innumerable papers on software, DSP coding, error correction, EME- everything interesting.    It's gone, that URL is up for grabs.   Is there an archive?   WHy has it gone?

I've got a couple of his papers in hard copy only and need to follow references and things.

Tragedy


--
Robin Szemeti - G1YFG


Robert G8RPI
 

This is why whenever I find something interesting I make a local copy.

Too many sites just disappear or companies "refresh" them and literally dump lots of useful (to somepeople, probably not new customers) information.

Robert G8RPI.


G8DQX list
 

Andy,

the most recent Wayback capture of Phil's website seems to be at https://web.archive.org/web/20220704231306/http://ka9q.net/.

HTH, 73, Stay Safe,

Robin, G8DQX

On 27/11/2022 12:49, Lehane Kellett G8KMH wrote:
Andy,
wayback seems to have archived a lot of the pages. e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20210224000222/http://www.ka9q.net/bpsk1000.html

73
Lehane G8KMH


Andy G4JNT
 

That seems to have found them



On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 at 00:41, G8DQX list <list@...> wrote:
Andy,

the most recent Wayback capture of Phil's website seems to be at
https://web.archive.org/web/20220704231306/http://ka9q.net/.

HTH, 73, Stay Safe,

Robin, G8DQX

On 27/11/2022 12:49, Lehane Kellett G8KMH wrote:
> Andy,
> wayback seems to have archived a lot of the pages. e.g.
> https://web.archive.org/web/20210224000222/http://www.ka9q.net/bpsk1000.html
>
> 73
> Lehane G8KMH






 

On Sun, 27 Nov 2022 at 12:50, Robin Szemeti - G1YFG via groups.io <robin=redpoint.org.uk@groups.io> wrote:
There is always archive.org

You can not be sure to get things there. I know Innovantennas 

were actively blocking that site, because when I was trying to find some information on an antenna, I see the message that the IP adresses had been denied. They seem to have stopped that now, but the site is only showing snapshots from the last 2 years, despite their website has been up for many years. 

But archive.org is very useful. Recently I had a customer purchase from a UK university purchase a VNA calibration kit for an Agilent PNA-X vector network analyzer. I created a file for him, which I expected his VNA to be able to read, but it only supported an older file format. I sent him an older format file, but suggested that he should consider updating the firmware. But the latest version of firmware for his XP based machine is not on the Keysight website.😢😢😢, but archive.org would have come to the rescue. I say “would have”, as the latest XP firmware is there, but Keysight have actually now donated the university a new Windows 7 hard drive and the 64-bit CPU to run it. Well done Keysight 👍, but they should not be deleting old firmware. 


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