February 24, 2000 Creating Ham Websites

February 24, 2000
BAARC Club Meeting and Presentation

The February 24th Brainerd Area Amateur Radio Club business meeting was held in room 607 at the Mississippi Horizons School in Brainerd.

Commander Laurence Brinson of the U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary asked for volunteers to run radios for the Coast Guard on Lake Mille Lacs. It is a part of a new commitment to increase safety on the lake starting with the fishing opener in May. The club took his request under advisement.

     The 8 PM presentation was given by BAARC President Mark Persons. He showed how to write personal websites with the hope that others will use it to promote amateur radio on the world wide web.



     Everyone had a great time.

Text of Presentation:

In the past, my presentations have included building a computer and getting on the internet. Hopefully they helped people explore those new technologies. This time, club members can learn to create a web site to promote Ham Radio.

Technical terms:

ISP - Internet Service Provider
URL – Universal Resource Locator (the address used on any web site)
HTTP – Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (the address prefix on a URL)
HTML – Hyper Text Markup Language (the programming language that creates web sites)
FTP – File Transfer Protocol (moves web pages from a web editor to a web server)
JPEG and GIF – compressed graphic formats commonly used on web sites
Web Site Host - server of web pages to the world wide web

If you look at a web site and use your browser to view the source code, this is what you might see:

<META NAME="keywords"
CONTENT="amateur, radio, amateur radio, ham, ham radio, hobby, electronic, electronics, emergency, communication, communications, QSL, repeaters, VHF, UHF, HF, VEC, exams, tests, Crow Wing County, Minnesota, repeater, 2m, 147.03, 145.13, Fun, W0UJ, Call sign">
<meta name="Microsoft Border" content="none">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<a href="Main.html"><img border="0" src="images/baarc-scene.gif" alt="Click here to enter the web site" align="middle" width="594" height="208"> 
</a>Taking hamming into the new millennium 
<img border="0" src="images/forward.gif" width="10" height="12"> <a href="Main.html">Click HERE to enter the

When I first started writing for the web, I wrote the code one letter at a time. Recently I have been using a graphical drag and drop HTML Editor. It is Microsoft Front Page 2000. You can purchase a copy for $129.00 at almost any computer store. It greatly aids in composing pages for the web.

Brainerd Area Amateur Radio Club member web sites: include:

Lyle (KØLR) Koehler's Web Page:
http://www.computerpro.com/~lyle/

Mark (WØMH) & Paula (WØHA) Persons' Web Page:
Ham portion of the page: http://www.mwpersons.com/ham.html
Commercial portion of the page: http://www.mwpersons.com

Dennis (WØZRO) Mack's Web Page:
http://www.brainerd.net/~dmack/

Bob (WØZPE) Feuer's Web Page:
http://www.ranchontheweb.com/

RJ (AAØRJ) Savey's Web Page:
http://www.uslink.net/~savey/
RJ (AAØRJ) Savey's MARS Page:
http://www.uslink.net/~savey/mars.htm

Shane Toven KCØANX Web Page:
http://www.kaxe.org/stoven/

Most internet service providers give 5, 10, or 20 MB for personal web sites. Most sites are less than 1 MB in size. BAARC 9.35 MB mostly photos.

US Link provides web space for the Brainerd Area Amateur Radio Club at no charge. However, there is no distinct URL. It is a sub-domain of US Link.

Most ham club sites are 1- to 20 pages deep. BAARC site is 135 pages deep…It is what you make it to be.

Graphics can be used used over and over. They are stored just once, usually in an "Images" file on the web site and called up by web pages.

Each web page needs a "Mission Statement" on it's first (index) page. This sets the tone for what the site and organization is all about.

Creating and maintaining a ham website can be a fun experience and can benefit the ham hobby by showing others what ham radio is all about.

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