I just went to check the SSTRAN website, and was greeted with the following message -
"Account Temporarily Unavailable.
We're sorry, this account has been disabled and requires attention.
If you are the owner of this account, Contact your hosting provider for more information as soon as possible."
Is this the final final death knell for SSTRAN?
It looks that the site dissapeared in June, but he quit selling them ten or more years ago.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240530031935/http://www.sstran.com/
He stopped selling them in 2017 @RichPowers. The website has been active as recently as the last few days, as I have been accessing it regularly over the last few months.
@rugster I was basing it on the Internet Archive results, it shows all links as of and after June of this year as redirecting to the error page it gives now.
Maybe it's a case of your part of the net not yet refreshed.. not exactly sure how all that works, but I'm just stating what the archive indicates. Beats me.
Or maybe I read the results wrong.
I hadn't thought of that @richpowers. Perhaps my computer had been pulling up the SSTRAN website from it's internal cache. I know that Phil had not been selling his kits for about 7 years at this point, but to see that the website is no longer available feels very final.
On the day before this forum announced the SSTran website was MIA I visited the still intact website to re-read the pages about modifying the AMT3000 and building a loading coil for enhanced performance. I'd previously downloaded and saved those pages, but upon reviewing them I found I was missing a page, so I grabbed it. How extremely fortunate it was, given the fact that now the door is closed.
It has never been reported why the SSTran products ceased to be available.
It has never been reported why the SSTran products ceased to be available.
No it hasn't, and I find that rather disquieting. Did Phil step back from the business due to ill health, was he simply fed up of doing it and wanting to concentrate on other things, was there some catastrophic event, or was it something else? Is he even still around at this point?
A month or two ago, I mailed a letter to him, offering to buy even just a PC board, if he still had one lying around. I wasn't expecting to hear anything back. So far, I haven't, and almost certainly won't. I also sent a letter to the feller I sold my AMT3000 to years ago, offering to buy it back. I haven't heard from him either (as I expected).
I'm building my own from scratch now. Fingers crossed that it works!
I just visited and it's not there. Get account suspended error message...