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NHRC web pages are grouped into seven major subjects to make it easy to find information. Some have sub-pages, which each link back to their major page. The blue boxes at the top and bottom of each major page are hotlinks to all major pages.

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History of the NHRC Web Page - The first North Hills Radio Club web page was put together in December 1995 on NS Net by Carl Schultz, WF6J. Carl and the NHRC were proud of this achievement which provided well organized links to many Ham-related pages.

Plans were made in March 1998 to move to Compudigital Industries' web server with the new URL, k6is.org. However, Carl was unable to continue. A search for a new Webmaster was not immediately successful.

A new Webmaster, Les Cobb, W6TEE, agreed in October 1998 to complete the new site, with the Board's agreement that the new pages would be mostly about the Club, reducing the size and work. The new pages were put up during November 1998, borrowing some text and graphics from the old pages.

The web pages were moved in January 2007 to another server, running Red Hat Linux and Apache, courtesy Mark Stennett, NA6M.


About the Webmaster - Les, W6TEE, first licensed General Class in 1952, with that call. Now holds Extra Class license. Writes HF Mobile column for Worldradio magazine. Besides this web page, writes all or part of web pages for himself, the Sacramento Valley Section of ARRL, and the Mt. Vaca Radio Club.
How did we insert date and time into the text? - We also used related features on these pages that aren't as noticeable. These are Server Side Includes (SSI) and must be supported by your web server before they will work on your pages.

The server scans all files named with a .shtml or .html-ssi extension to look for comment tags containing SSI commands. It then inserts the text resulting from the command at that point in the file sent to the browser. All that you can see by viewing the code presented to the browser is the date-time etc. as if it were part of the text.

We use some of the following SSI commands. Not all are implemented on all SSI servers:

<!--#include file="mast.htm" --> This inserts the named file at this point in the text. This file contains just the blue page link buttons at the top of the page. This way we don't have to repeat the page links on every page. What is more important, we don't have to change every page when a link changes. The included file does not have to be a .shtml or .html-ssi, but the file including it, or any of these commands, does.

<!--#config timefmt="%A, %B %d, %Y, %I:%M %p" --> The date-time format for any following tags. This one now reads Thursday, August 07, 2008, 06:00 PM.
FormatOutput FormatOutput FormatOutput
%cThu 07 Aug 2008 06:00:22 PM CDT %x08/07/2008 %X06:00:22 PM
%BAugust %bAug %m08
%AThursday %aThu %d07
%Y2008 %y08   
%H18 %M00 %S22
%I06 %pPM %ZCDT

<!--#echo var="DATE_LOCAL" --> This is inserted in the text where the date-time is to appear. Don't forget leading and trailing spaces.

<!--#totcnt--> <!--#lastzero--> These are the counter and counter start date commands, used as:
You are visitor number <!--#totcnt--> since <!--#lastzero-->. We first reconfigure the timefmt to just month, day, and year.
(These are the only functions used before 2007 that do not work with our present server.)

<!--#include file="foot.htm" --> This is our "include" for the bottom of the page. It repeats the link buttons, shows the club address, e-mail addresses, and copyright. This saves repetition and minimizes typos when making changes.

<!--#echo var="LAST_MODIFIED" --> This is at the very bottom of the page to show the last web page change. We first reconfigure the timefmt to month, day, year, and time.


North Hills Radio Club, Inc.
PO Box 417370
Sacramento, CA 95841-7370
E-mail: k6isarrl.net

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Updated Sat 06 Jan 2007 01:52:38 AM CST by Les Cobb, W6TEE.