On 30.12.20 at 16:55 wrote Rob PE1CHL via 44Net: ..
With such a system, the risk of stale entries is a lot less. But I have not yet devised a way to refresh entries without limiting the platform on which they can run (a Linux or Windows system can easily schedule a job that runs some program to post a form, but I do not want to limit too much what platforms can provide and auto-refresh services)
Are you aware of
This is a distributed search engine. I do not have a lot of experience with it other than know about its existence. But perhaps this could be a solution? I know that the Germans once had such operational for some time https://www.dl0hgw.de/funk-technik/hamnet.html (Sorry the site is German language only) but it had disappeared from the net. If you like I can ask them about their experience and why the discontinued the service.
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