[44net] Re: [ARDC:44Net] a communication about communications

Mine too! I have been a coordinator for nearly 30 years, both in the times of the classic packet radio network and the current "hamnet", and I have done a lot of work on guiding the users and building the network. Out network is very active, we have lots of users and systems. The move to the new portal has been made with the assumption that all of the existing allocations were abandoned and unused, and we can start fresh. But over here that isn't the case at all! The new method of administration has its pros and cons, but the lack of a migration plan has caused a lot of disruption here. It simply isn't practical to have >500 amateurs of different skills migrate from a centrally administered system to creating their own account, claiming their own addresses and allocations, and managing them, and have the system effectively out of operation during the transition. That combined with the fact that each and every request I made via the portal ticket system to have the major issues solved was turned down has made me sad and disappointed in ARDC. I got the impression that for everything I carefully thought out to resolve the situation, a new rule was invented on the spot as to why that could not be granted. I have tried to keep silent and just ignore the whole thing, hoping that it would finally be resolved, but I can fully understand why people become frustrated over this. As I wrote several times in tickets: why can't we all just cooperate in a nice hobby where everyone has fun and everyone takes the aspects of the hobby that they like, as it should be in ham radio? Why should there be all those procedures, rules, administration, and denial of requests made by other people who are trying to have fun? I do not understand it. Rob PE1CHL On 2024-07-03 02:15, Boudewijn (Bob) Tenty via 44net wrote: