Tried several times in the past hour and can't get anything to load, not even the 403 page, no errors, it just shows white:
I still get the error
I just tried and I couldn't connect. It's down.
For good? Who knows?
Addendum: Just tried again & got the Forbidden!!!!!! error. Don't know what happened the first time. Guess it's still up in some form.
In attempting to access HB to see if they still existed, I accidently got this link, a victim of supposedly 'intelligent' autofill, I believe.
https://hobbybroadcasting.com/
I had forgotten about this website. It's pretty funny, as the name is so close to HB, and yet it's a pirate site. Just don't attempt to follow the links. I tried one and my anti-virus gave a malware error.
@artisan-radio Its been there forever, they used to have a magazine run. Don't know if it's been updated in 20 years. Think I posted several of their old magazine covers here one time a year or two ago.
Yeah I'm back to HB 403 again, I just thought it was odd that for several hours every time I tried it wouldn't load anything at all.
.https://hobbybroadcasting.com/
I had forgotten about this website. It's pretty funny, as the name is so close to HB, and yet it's a pirate site. Just don't attempt to follow the links. I tried one and my anti-virus gave a malware error.
I think I had done it before, but I got curious about the link for a "PA Low Power Stations", thinking it had something to do with PA systems. Think link is dead so went back in the Archive to find it, had to go back 20 years to find an active link... When I got there I realized I had done this before.
"PA Low Power Radio" has nothing to do with PA systems in case you didn't already know,
https://web.archive.org/web/20010708011719/http://www.hobbybroadcasting.com/PA/
Pennsylvania low-power radio stations
The following page includes low-power radio stations of all types [TIS (traveler's information stations), pirates, carrier-current stations, part-15, etc.]. I've always thought it was neat to hear little low-power AM stations, so after being inspired by Terry Kreueger's Florida low-power station page, I decided to start one for Pennsylvania. Feel free to send in your own loggings to me and I'll try to stick them up. The only restrictions are that the power must be 10 watts or less (except for carrier current) and no translators. The stations are sorted by frequency in thee format: frequency, type of station, location, callsign/name.
AM/Medium Wave ... .. ...."
The magazine was...
Hobby Broadcasting magazine is a quarterly publication, dedicated to do-it-yourself broadcasting of all types: microbroadcasting, pirate radio and TV, Internet radio, public-access radio and TV, shortwave radio, college and high-school radio and TV, and much more! Click HB issues for more info about our current and past issues.
Back issues occasionally show up on eBay, like this one right now, a 1999 issue: https://www.ebay.com/itm/376404362956
And the guy that published it:
North American Pirate Radio Hall Of Fame
Andy Yoder
https://sites.google.com/site/napiratehof/2010-inductees/andy-yoder
Yeah, I've seen it before as well, but got a kick that I typed in "hobbybroadcast" in the browser, thinking that autofill would send me around to HB, but it sent me to that site instead.
By the way, that guy wants $24 and $6 shipping for that magazine. Wow, not me..
Looking at his magazine brought back memories, I was doing one during the same era. It wasn't mine but I did it all and was paid well for it considering I generally spent no more than a few days putting each issue together.. Anyway, just found one of those old Joker issues listed at this website, not sure what year that was, probably early 2000s, I did it from about 1994 to 2002 I think, it was just a side thing but I got paid $800 a month to do it. I've seen issues pop up on eBay before to. Wish I kept some of them.
https://mr-magazine.com/products/the-joker-magazine-short-stories-no-198-062519nonr
When we started putting girls on the cover the sales and distribution really exploded - well for a small rag magazine anyway. The publisher (Paul Devivo) didn't want to do it because our print jobs were using a web press printer (in Jacksonville) and he was afraid the colors (cmyk) would not consistently line up properly and it would end up looking like crap, but I insisted I by now knew what would work on the press and what would not and he finally caved and said ok we'll try one.. and from then on the girl on the cover and center pages became a staple. We were distributed primarily along highway exits spanning from Jacksonville all the way to parts of Tennessee and Virginia, plus several hundred mail subscriptions. It was a good run for a rag magazine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20051107102819/http://www.jokeronline.com/msjoker/msjoker.htm