I had an email exchange with Steve and he confirms that the QRP-L home page is indeed gone forever. I had asked about using some of his pages directly on the qrparci site but he declined. More significantly Steve says he is "dropping out of ham radio". This is a sad note of course. Here is some of our exchange:

>Steve,
>
>I have heard on several fronts that you have taken down the qrp-l site.
>It was a good one and much appreciated by the qrp community.

Yup. He's dead, Jim.

>Also, I hope you are not phasing out of QRP and hope to see you at
>Dayton again this year.

Thanks, but I'm basically getting out of Ham Radio. In fact, I
haven't been to Dayton in 2 years. The new date conflicts with the
Apple WorldWide Developers Conference in San Jose every year, and I
prefer/need to attend that.

++Steve