[44net] New portal and encap

There have been a few enquiries regarding how to retrieve the encap.txt and gateways file from the new system: You can use FTP by connecting to the host: portal.ampr.org The username and password is the same as the old system (please drop me an email if you don't know it). Once you have created an account on the portal, if you click on the top menu link "Gateways" then click on "Options" on the second menu line a page is displayed where you can enter an email address and select the frequency you wish to receive the encap.txt file. From that point on it will be emailed to the address you have entered. If the email address field is blank, you will NOT be emailed the encap.txt file. If you click on "List" from the "Gateways" menu, you can also download the latest encap.txt file from the link at the top of this page. The download link on the "List" page is "live" data, i.e. if someone updates their gateways entry, it will appear in the database immediately and so the moment you browse to that page, or refresh that page, you have the very latest data. The file on the FTP site is updated only when a change occurs, there is a cronjob that polls the database every 5 minutes and updates the file if anything changed, so the FTP file will at worst be 5 minutes out of date. With regards to the "gateways" file that was available on the old system: we did not believe that this file was very useful as all the data it contained is now on the portal. However, there have been a few people ask about it. If this file is being used, then let me know and I can put work in to create the file on the FTP site. If it's not important then don't bother contacting me and I won;t spend the time on it ;-) 73, Chris G1FEF