About Dave

Born: 1950
School: Yes
Crazy?: Depends on who you ask.
Hobby: See here.
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Website Policies

Privacy

I make no privacy promises! I keep no mailing lists, so there is no e-mail addresses to trade, sell or give away. If you send me e-mail, I reserve the right to use the address and content as I wish.

Submitted Ideas

Anything, including ideas, suggestions or thoughts are at your own risk. It is possible that I could use this idea, make it a commercial success, be the next Bill Gates without any compensation or recognition to you. Also, an idea you might have sent me, I may of heard before. If this is a problem, please don't tell me. I wouldn't want to hear it.

Use of this web site

This is a hobby based web site for the personal use of my web visitors. Any commercial use of this web site (makearadio.com) is forbidden, without making arrangements (to cut me in) first. Hobbyists may store pictures of this web site for their personal use and may not be distributed by anyone without my permission.

If you use a picture in a forum post, please add a link back to my website. "Scraping" or otherwise taking my content (pictures and/or text) and putting it on your website or blog is discouraged. Don't take my work and put it on your website! This is my work!

Commercial Pages Linking

My pages are not to be used to promote your products. Linking on a general links page is fine, but placing a link to my site from your product page is discouraged. If you are willing to make a donation to keep this site going, I can make special accommodations.

Linking In Frames

Linking so that my page is in your frame is not acceptable! Doing this, hides my meta tags as well as my copyright in my page source code. Please don't do it!

Linking

You will find linking information on my links page.

Everything on my site is copyright 2002-2099, David Schmarder.

All rights are reserved. If you wish to use anything on this site (pictures, text, downloads)for non-commercial purposes, please ask. It is highly likely that I will say yes. Please don't use my materials to sell your trinkets on eBay or other sale venues.

Ad Blockers

To get my complete pages, please turn off your ad blocker and allow my ads to appear. I reserve the right to block pages that have the ad blockers switched on.

My Website Code

Effort is placed on making my web pages compatible with major web browsers. IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and Konqueror have been tested. This represents over 98% of the browsers that visit my website. This website uses HTML-5 and CSS-3. I use the Google "shiv" script to make some older browsers display my pages correctly.

Disclaimer

The person viewing this site agrees to take all responsibility or all positive , or negative consequences resulting from the use of the information. Please learn and observe all safety considerations on your own. Some of the information may not be suitable for use by all persons. Watch how you install your antenna, don't grab your soldering iron by the hot end, and don't use your radio in the bathtub!

Contact Information

General Questions

Please post on The RadioBoard forums. When registering, use authcode makearadio.

My e-mail Address – Please read before writing your e-mail.

This e-mail address does not accept e-mails with attachments or to multiple addresses (or Bcc:). My server deletes e-mails with Cc:, Bcc: and attachments without warning. If you need to send me something, e-mail first and ask for my full featured e-mail address.

NO SPAM please! dhmr@makearadio.com Any bulk e-mail is spam. Only personally addressed non-commercial e-mail is welcomed. Short e-mails requested. NO file attachments please! Sorry, I don't make or accept phone calls.

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Facts About Makearadio.com

Makearadio.com now has over 500 pages of radio building information. More than 30GB bandwidth a month flows from my webhost to my visitors. Makearadio.com a.k.a. Dave's Homemade Radios is an active website that started in 2002. I spend about 500 hours per year tweaking and updating my websites.

There has never been a charge to my visitors to look and enjoy this website. The costs to operate this site are paid by advertisements and by visitor's thoughtful donations.

This website was designed with my visitor's comfort being placed ahead of everything else.

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