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74: 53: 22: 855: 946:. There's a lot of general propagation information in the 2-meter article that doesn't directly relate to, or is not unique to, 2-meter operation. A lot of this information is redundant with respect to these other articles. I would think the general propagation content here should be deleted or moved, with the appropriate "see also" links added. AKeenEye 04:03, 10 September 2014 (UTC) 1099:
So yes, perhaps the editor who tag bombed the article, and I haven't looked at the history yet to see, might have had the decency to discuss it here, but it is entirely possible that it was a good faith tagging spree by a newbie or a helpful passer by. Not sure what to do, as I agree that the text
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added the tags, plus some other stuff in September 2021. The editor has made just two edits to the project, so it was a drive-by. If this was a controversial and disputed area, I might support removing the text tagged until citations could be supplied, and though this text might be trivially
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The band plan, although it is labelled as a sample, is US-specific. Should the article mention the differences in repeater bands and channel spacing? Many countries use 25Khz channel spacing and would have for example a call channel of 146.500 instead of 146.520.
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Yes, I didn't remove them all, partly because I didn't feel like doing it, but some might be good. It was the one that some people might put an antenna on the roof of their house that got me. For one, there is
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Actually, there are vast swathes of unsourced text in this article, and those tags are individually quite justified. I acknowledge that the text is not too bad in terms of an article on this subject
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I've been seeing stuff about the loss of this band to amateur radio. Of course, I am not an expert and I came here to have a look. Is this topic worth inclusion in this article? -
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on just about every paragraph. Some might actually be true, but most are so well known or obvious that they aren't needed. Even more, they didn't discuss any of them here!
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Modern technology makes things like this inexpensive, and production in countries like China makes them plentiful. Is there something more that needs to be said?
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I'm surprised that discussion is required. New policy? I haven't been wikiing at the rate I used to, perhaps growth has taken its toll.
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where the statement is generic enough not to be wrong. (They might, but it doesn't say that anyone did.) But some can probably use a good
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03:47, 14 July 2006 (UTC) This page should be renamed '2 meters' if it is to have sentence case and be consistent similar pages.
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13:54, 11 December 2005 (UTC) 2 Meters → 2 meters – {Not a proper noun, and consistency with other radio band articles. –
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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verifiable, I'm not comfortable leaving it all alone, but I'm going to. Happy to discuss further. -
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Simple radios for FM repeater operation have become plentiful and inexpensive in recent years.
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Simple radios for FM repeater operation have become plentiful and inexpensive in recent years.
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It is required in cases where the move is not straightforward – in this case, a redirect in
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judging by the verbosity of amateur radio enthusiasts. (that's an observational joke btw.)
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Terrestrial RF propagation is well-covered elsewhere in Knowledge, one example being
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then you may need to upload it to Knowledge (Commons does not allow fair use)
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http://www.rsgb.org/spectrumforum/bandplans/RSGB%20Band%20Plan%20master.pdf
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not a proper name (though "2 Meters" should redirect.) --
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should not be capitalized for a variety of reasons.
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