There’s a brief item on the ARRL website news crawl that refers to the lead item in the September QST Product Review column: http://www.arrl.org/news/em-funkamateur-em-fifi-sdr-ordering-function-offline

Here’s the rest of the story. It seems that when September QST reached our members, Funkamateur in Germany experienced such a large and sudden spike in FiFi orders from the United States that their local Internet provider, along with AT&T, assumed that a Denial of Service attack was taking place and closed the invoice transfer link.

Now they have to convince the provider that the activity is legitimate….

73,

Dave K1ZZ