Yes we notice these events as well - we do have one hardware issue that we hope to resolve this coming week.  We will be replacing the main web server with a new sever.  The new server will have double the memory and a bit more processing power along with a few other improvements.  This will allow us to work on the hardware issue we have on the current web server.  There has been about a month or more delay in getting the new server in place for various reasons.
 
Anyway I hope that sometime next week things will be running more normally.

Thanks for the feedback.

This topic has been moved to VHF / UHF.

http://www.eham.net/ehamforum/smf/index.php?topic=89082.0

We are working on it.

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The was a machine acting up.  This has been removed form service.

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You can look up call signs in the upper left hand corner of our pages - under call search.  The data
comes from QRZ.com.

I a few things:

Your input power?

Plate current for 600 watts out?

Where is the load control?
You say as you drive it harder the grid current goes up - is there no more adjustment left on
the load cap? 

It would be interesting to know what your results on 10 meters are - since you could have a tube that is going soft.

I have used about 5 different AL-1500 amps over the years.  I have two at my station now that I use in my SO2R setup.  Several of them - including the one I have owned the longest always took more drive on 15 meters. 
When I got my second AL-150 a few years ago I noticed that it was much better on 15 meters. One day I tuned them both up and looked at where the caps were set.  On the one that was harder to drive I noticed that the load control was at or near the limit (I do not recall if it was fully messed or the other way around) but there was almost no more adjustment left. I think indicating the inductance needed to be adjusted.  I opened both amps up and noticed right away that the coil on one had turns much closer together than the other - on the one that was taking more drive - so I spread them out.  The next thing I noticed was one end of the coil was bolted to the cap in a different location - like one was on the outside of the cap and the other was on the inside.  The difference was not much but it was different. So I made them the same.  These small adjustments made all the difference.  The net effect was that I increased the inductance on the one that was taking more drive to get full output. 

If your loading capacitor is not in the mid range I would look at adjusting the inductance.

But first I would make sure you have a good tube. 

There are ways of tuning the tank circuit of an amp without high voltage on it using a resistor and an antenna analyzer - you can tune your tank circuit.

As outlined here:

http://tinyurl.com/dyxacbo   (pdf)

Yes - it is on our end. It does not appear to be remote cache related.  We are still unclear as to what is causing the issue and due to several unrelated events all happening in the last week we have made several changes so working out where the issue is coming from is proving to be difficult. I am in Texas and the other person is in California and neither of us can get the site to do this for us making it even harder to figure out what is going on or if we have been able to affect the behavior.

Thank you for the reports here because at the moment that is about the only feedback we have.

How very odd.  I still have not been able to make this happen on my machine and I access the site just like everyone else nothing special.  I have just tried another thing in an effort to get this to not do that.  The sites all share the same code and infrastructure and I am pretty sure I understand how it happened in the first place but I am less clear why it only seems to affect some users.  I was thinking it was ISP caching but I see that you are indeed getting another sites urls on the end of the eham.net domain name.

Very strange - flushed another cache here - I and the other developer have yet to see this issue.

If there are local caches on your ISP or elsewhere on your network you might be getting stale data
from there.... please keep me posted.

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mmmm... I am not seeing this here.

We did some internal DNS resolution issues but they have been fixed.  It is possible that
this is what was causing problems.  We have also been doing some other work on
some parts of the site.

If you continue to see this issue let us know.

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The video that was shot by "Videos By Mike" can be seen on You Tube here:

http://youtu.be/D0gEFw_b8Sc

He has quite a few videos that he shot at Hamcation 2013.

As many have pointed out in this thread the google ads use various methods to deliver ads targeted at the user.  For the last few weeks I have been getting almost nothing but Intuit ads because I went to the Intuit Quickbooks site one day. 

We do have some control over the google ads - and we have some ads blocked from our site and also some entire categories of ads blocked that we feel would not be good or useful to run on the site. If you see an ad that you feel is totally out of place you can send me the name of the company or better yet the URL that the ad leads to - you can usually right click on the ad image to copy the URL if you do not want to click on the ad - and we can look at the ad to see if it needs to be excluded from the site.

You can also click the 'X' on some google ads - it will mute the ad - this gives google info that you do not want to see that ad. 

The ads help pay to keep the site running.  I have made an effort to keep the number of ad slots to a minimum as well as not have many ads that have excessive flashing or other obnoxious ad behavior that I see on some other sites.

Yep - one of the number of outside tools used to keep on top of this sort of thing.
It did not turn up malware on the site either.

Can you tell me you OS and web browser?

We have gotten several similar reports but so far I can not get any of the tools to detect this malware.
Using local tools as well as several online scanners. 

I do wish you had posted a new topic (I would have been notified) and not posted to one that was over a year old.

I have split your post out into a new thread.


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While the band might be closing earlier at night now you can still expect to work stations after dark.  With the contest comes more activity.  More signals on the band will mean that you are more likely to hear
a station on from an area that has propagation to your location.  If there is no one transmitting you will
never know.

In addition to the F2 propagation this time of year brings increased sporadic E propagation. Sporadic E can happen at any time and at any sun spot level.  There have been years when the band has been very open the first night of the contest here in Texas.  I would not give up on the band until at least 11 or 12 local time.
In the years when I did this contest as a serious entrant I would always be on calling CQ until midnight each night - sometimes this results in a lot of contacts and other years none but you just never know.

Since 2001 WM5R has been operating the 10 meter contest from my station and some years he has had great E Skip at night well after sunset.

You can find his contest results for all of those years here:

http://www.wm5r.org/contest/

The rate sheets or CBS reports will show you his contacts per hour and give you an idea of how good the Eskip can be.

Here are the links to some of the years that were very good.

http://www.wm5r.org/contest/2011_arrl10/11arrl10.rpt
http://www.wm5r.org/contest/2010_arrl10/10arrl10.cbs
http://www.wm5r.org/contest/2007_arrl10/07arrl10.cbs