I think you need to clear your cache or refresh the page - that issue was fixed yesterday (after I reported it directly to Jon). - unless there are more than the two links to that I’ve found.
Stewart
Once the teething issues are resolved we will all forget we had any issues. 
The aspect that I particularly like is that when you call up a summit list, you get it in chunks. No scrolling down through 200+ summits. GM/SS loads up straight away. … no time out problems like there have been in the past.
Many thanks Jon and team. Your hard work is much appreciated.
73, Gerald G4OIG
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Hi everyone, I had underestimated how much people relied on the links from the home page of the website. I have now put some Quick Links back on the homepage. Hopefully this is useful.
As Andy MFM points out above, the abilty to Login to the new website is new. You couldn’t do it before. So you still need to login to all the other sites separately as before (single sign on is a medium term aspiration). The only difference is that you can also now register and login on the website. The only thing this gives you currently is the bearing and distance from your home QTH on the summit pages. Shortly we will also be adding in the My Chases and My Activations for the summit pages and further functionality will follow from that.
73, Jon
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Thanks for the quick links Jon.
Here’s another issue to think about - going to sota.org.uk instead of www.sota.org.uk gives a 404 error as shown below - I think this is a setting in DNS that allows site access without the www.
Error 404 - Web app not found.
The web app you have attempted to reach is not available in this Microsoft Azure App Service region. This could be due to one of several reasons:
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The web app owner has registered a custom domain to point to the Microsoft Azure App Service, but has not yet configured Azure to recognize it. Click here to read more.
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The web app owner has moved the web app to a different region, but the DNS cache is still directing to the old IP Address that was used in the previous region. Click here to read more.
Ed.
You need to be logged in also before you have the ability to add, edit or delete external links or articles to the Summits Info pages Jon.
Ed.
hello,
thank you for the new SOTA website! Just clicked through it a bit and find the design very nice.
Just one thing i noticed:
On “www.sotawatch.org” → latest spots → the hyperlinks leading to the new website “SOTA Summits”
But the hyperlinks on upcoming activations still lead to the old website “http://www.sotawatch.org/summits.php?summit=XX/XX-XXX”
And thank you for adding the locator of the summit to the summit information page (like i suggested a few months ago … Locator on Summit Information page).
73 Martin, OE5REO
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I am logged in a normal on sota watch.
BUT when you tap into a say said sota and the info comes up seems am not logged into that part and tried both pass words as its not recognising me user name. any help please
Karl M3FEH
A few posts back I explained why you have to create a new account. You haven’t created a new account.
Karl (and others), the new SOTA website now has password access - you will need to register an account with the site - use this link: Summits on the Air
This is a new account, different to what you used to use for SOTAWatch or the SOTA database sites. (You can of course use the same userid (callsign) and password as the other sites to keep things “simple”).
73 Ed.
Peoples thank you again
after few chose words in doing it, its done.
Me and PC’s hmmmm questionable LOL
thanks again folks
Karl 73s
I cannot find how to change my password for the Sota Reflector.
I have changed the password for both the Sotawatch site and the new Sota website to one with a non-alphanumeric character in it, but the Reflector still wants my old password.
Duh!
73,
Walt (G3NYY)
well after a couple of emails and a bit of faffing about, I have reached the point that I use regularly, here!!
Nice website but will get a bit of getting used to. As usual with IT stuff, all the answers you need are behind the system you are trying to get on to but as you do not have the key you cannot unlock the door. Then the last reply to my email from Jon GM4ZFZ contained the clue. The door is not locked, just push and enter, I have arrived…
Cheers Jon…
Mick - G8NVX
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OK, - this one is a bit “tricky” but the way I have found is - click on your avartar (the cat in your case) at the top right hand corner of the page.
From the pulldown that appears click on profile (the top entry in the list).
Now on the next screen on the thick black bar click on the preferences button and there you can change several things including your password. To do this click on the “send password reset email” and check your email - it includes a link that you need to click to be able to go and set a new password.
Told you it was a bit tricky!
73 Ed.
P.S. For clarity - this is the REFLECTOR password reset as you requested, NOT the new website account and password.
Hi!
Saving data when “Adding external link” does not work here. How can I edit existing external link?
Jure
Thank you very much, Ed. With your help, I have succeeded! So at last, my password for all the SOTA sites is the same.
It certainly was a bit tricky!
I seem to remember, many moons ago, that we were promised a “user manual” for the SOTA websites, including the Sotawatch site, the Database and the reflector. Such a user manual has never materialised.
To add to the confusion, the domain for the Sotawatch site is “.org” but the domain for the other sites (except sota-maps) is “.org.uk”.
It’s like finding your way through a maze.
Thanks again, Ed.
73,
Walt (G3NYY)
Jon, can you please clarify for me, is the intention to remove the SOTAWatch site at some point and its features be handled under the new sota.org.uk site? I ask this as, unless I am mistaken, the summits information used to be under SOTAWatch but is now under the new sota.org.uk site.
If alerts and spots could be handled under sota.org.uk, then we don’t need sotawatch anymore do we?
By the way, another item for the “to do” list, if one goes into sota.org.uk goes to some other page than the home page (e.g. Summits Information) and then decides to logon, you are not taken back to the page where you were, but are rather put into your account/profile update page. Admittedly from there you can click on the options along the top to navigate to another part of the site but I think once logged in it would be better if one were to be transfered back to the page where you hit the login button (if this is possible).
73 Ed.
Are you sure you are logged in Jure and looking at the sota.org.uk website not the sotawatch website?
Summits on the Air is now where all the summits are listed.
If you haven’t yet created an account on the new website, you will need to do that - see my post earlier in this thread.
I have added a new external link to the summit data on the new website without problems but if you are not logged in, you will not see the option.
73 Ed.
Reading the first post in this thread may help Ed.
OOps - found it:
It is also worth mentioning that some aspects of SOTAwatch will be now incorporated in the new website and eventually it is entirely possible that a fully new version of SOTAwatch will end up more integrated as well.
Doh!
Ed.
It was 38 days ago. I find it difficult to remember what I was doing 38minutes ago!