Posted: 8/5/2026 6:23:11 PM EDT
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https://www.ae7q.com/ The required database is no longer available. For over 20 years, I provided this no-fee, no-advertising site as a service to amateur radio operators. Since 2022, this site has been under near-constant attack or abuse. First, by hackers. Since 2025, by AI scrapers. It used to be that the FCC made their weekly data available for download early Sunday morning. A couple years ago, this got delayed until Sunday afternoon. Now, since mid-July, 2026 the weekly files aren't fully available until late Tuesday. Some of them have been incomplete. This interferes with the detection of obsolete data being available (a common FCC issue). I like being retired and am not interested in repeatedly cleaning up after hackers, AI scrapers, & FCC problems. Therefore, I am DONE. There is another party that I have been working with to replicate the functions of this site. That should have been ready months ago, but it is not. That party will make an announcement at the appropriate time. |
| Dang, his site was awesome for the help. It did however look like an early 2000s site. I can only image what the coding is on it and how hackers could have gotten into it. |
“ Well, it feels like someone took a rubber band and snapped it right on the edge of your anus.” -JThompson
Non Solis radios sed Iovis fulmina mitto
Glock and Colt Certified Armorer
Non Solis radios sed Iovis fulmina mitto
Glock and Colt Certified Armorer
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I also used it to figure out my vanity call list shortly after I got my crappy sequential. Ironic that was when vanities cost $, then they became free for awhile, now they cost even more than previously. If it were me, I would have put the site on strike on 4/19/2022 - F the train of abuses & usurpations government, making money off all of our voluntary service & charging license fees for any liberty/privilege and/or immunity/natural right except merely breathing... yet. |
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Originally Posted By sseagle: I'm just glad it was there when I was going for a vanity call, can't blame him at all. |
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Women and Only Fans: When one door closes, their legs can open - SideCharger
DEI stands for “Discrimination, Exclusion, and Intolerance.” and "Didn't Earn It."
Women and Only Fans: When one door closes, their legs can open - SideCharger
DEI stands for “Discrimination, Exclusion, and Intolerance.” and "Didn't Earn It."
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Originally Posted By Hayashi_Killian: The aggressive AI scrapers also made the OpenGD77 forums turn to a static content library due to huge bandwidth costs. The digital haemonculus claims another. With Cloudflare the AIs can do battle at their level and I don't have to worry about it. They have lots of good tutorials and it's not rocket surgery. |
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