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Radio Temporarily Offline
25^th Jul, 2012 at 12:42am

All,

Sincere apologies but the motherboard for the source, SAM server (quite literally - smoke and all) blew this evening. I will hopefully have this replaced within a day or two, so in the meantime S.A. will be offline.

Of course, if anybody would like to donate towards the costs involved in this replacement motherboard, please use the PayPal link on the front page of the website.

Again, apologies for this unexpected downtime.

Darran

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Reply #1 - 27^th Jul, 2012 at 9:44am

All,

Firstly, many, many thanks to those of you who have made a donation - it's greatly appreciated. Thank you.

A new motherboard has already been ordered and should be with me shortly. I will obviously post the moment that this arrives and provide an ETA as to when S.A. will be in a functioning state again.

Many thanks for your patience and apologies for this unexpected inconvenience.

Darran

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Andrew P Astral Traveller Offline Posts: 90 Hall, ACT, Australia Gender:	Re: Radio Temporarily Offline Reply #2 - 31^st Jul, 2012 at 7:41am Those pesky electronical thangs. It's the smoke that makes them work. And if you let the smoke out, they stop working! Looking forward to hearing SA again soon.
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ProgMaster Stellar Owner Offline Stellar Attraction Posts: 3,777 British Isles Gender:	Re: Radio Temporarily Offline Reply #3 - 31^st Jul, 2012 at 9:48pm All, Nothing arrived in the post (again) today. I'm written a stern e-mail to the supplier asking where my "next day delivery" motherboard (which was ordered last Wednesday) actually is and for a full postal tracking update. In the meantime, apologies and I shall update as and when I have further news. Darran
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JaneEyre Squonk Offline endearingly cantankerous Posts: 665 Gender:	Re: Radio Temporarily Offline Reply #4 - 6^th Aug, 2012 at 11:33pm Oooooooh! I love it when you get stern.
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ProgMaster Stellar Owner Offline Stellar Attraction Posts: 3,777 British Isles Gender:	Re: Radio Temporarily Offline Reply #5 - 7^th Aug, 2012 at 11:09pm JaneEyre wrote on 6^th Aug, 2012 at 11:33pm: Oooooooh! I love it when you get stern. You might be scared when I'm angry though, P.K. ...
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Reply #6 - 7^th Aug, 2012 at 11:10pm

Folks,

The motherboard has finally arrived in the post today. I have been working on it's installation all evening. Hopefully S.A. will be up-and-running very soon. As always, I shall post when I have further information.

Many thanks again for all of your patience during this unexpected (and very frustrating) outage.

Darran

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Andrew P Astral Traveller Offline Posts: 90 Hall, ACT, Australia Gender:	Re: Radio Temporarily Offline Reply #7 - 8^th Aug, 2012 at 12:59am That's about 10 days for a "Next Day Delivery"?
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Reply #8 - 8^th Aug, 2012 at 11:15pm

Andrew P wrote on 8^th Aug, 2012 at 12:59am:

That's about 10 days for a "Next Day Delivery"?

Tell me about it, Andrew. Needless to say, I'm absolutely furious with the supplier. Not only due to the delay but the (slightly) different model which they have sent.

However, I am continuing to work on the new motherboard's installation and shall hopefully have further news very soon.

Many thanks for your patience.

Darran

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David Z Stellar Patriot Offline Posts: 418 Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand	Re: Radio Temporarily Offline Reply #9 - 9^th Aug, 2012 at 2:59am Darran, I, for one, appreciate your efforts, and look forward to many marvelous future listens-in to SA! - David Z.
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LeKanaw Stellar Newbie Offline Moche room to rent Posts: 3 Montreal, Quebec Gender:	Re: Radio Temporarily Offline Reply #10 - 10^th Aug, 2012 at 7:51pm As always it's when something goes away that you can see how much you miss it I miss you SA Get well soon Peace ! NB: Donated again... to help the recovery
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Invisible Noise Stellar Newbie Offline Posts: 3 Melbourne, Australia Gender:	Re: Radio Temporarily Offline Reply #11 - 15^th Aug, 2012 at 1:04pm You don't know what you got until it's gone...
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Macros the Black Life Seeker Offline You shouldn't do that ! Posts: 210 Uden / N-br / The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Radio Temporarily Offline Reply #12 - 16^th Aug, 2012 at 10:07pm Le me check don't have the money at the moment but maybe next week I might donate a bit of money to you radio-station , you really maked a point now ...
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Reply #13 - 16^th Aug, 2012 at 10:34pm

Folks,

Firstly, again many thanks for your patience. As you can all hopefully imagine, nobody has been more frustrated than I at the delay in restoring the station to a normal, functioning manner. The hardware supplier that I had been dealing with in England was nothing short of hopeless. Both in the unacceptable delay in supplying the replacement motherboard but also the incorrect model.

Having had what I hope you all can appreciate, a break last Saturday evening, I have since been working very hard every evening to restore SAM and have S.A. online again.

I hope to have this complete by the end of the coming weekend and will post as and when I have further information.

Many thanks - especially to those of you who have kindly donated towards the expense involved - I will be contacting you personally once we are live again.

Darran

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Macros the Black Life Seeker Offline You shouldn't do that ! Posts: 210 Uden / N-br / The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Radio Temporarily Offline Reply #14 - 17^th Aug, 2012 at 7:42am Why not real life always goes before the Internet if you ask me ... Goodluck anyway and enjoy the break.
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