Questions tagged [discussion]
A tag for questions that may not necessarily have a clear-cut right or wrong answer and are often subjective. If it's not a bug, feature-request or request for assistance, it is probably a discussion.
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Antenna Theory within our Ambit
After looking at how SE EE handled a recent antenna theory question, I think we should expand our ambit to specifically include antenna theory and application - whether or not related to "radio".
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Is it appropriate to ask questions on how to boost the reception on my FM radio here?
I know that this stack exchange is mean for amateur radio. Would it still be acceptable to ask about issues with the antenna and reception of my FM radio here, or is there a better place for that?
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
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Are questions concerning good repeaters allowed?
Are people allowed to ask for repeater recommendations for a specific area?
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Are book recommendation questions product recommendation questions?
The relevant close reason reads:
This question asks for recommendations for specific products, services, software, or electronic designs, which are off-topic as they attract opinionated rather than ...
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Congratulations to us—ham.SE is no longer a beta site!
As of today, 16 December 2021, ham.stackexchange.com is no longer a beta StackExchange site! We graduated along with 57 other sites. Congratulations are in order! Here's the official announcement.
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
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Be a bit vigilant about safety-critical radio tech question
How can we be more vigilant not to "pseudo-help" people and bring them (or others) into danger that way?
Background:
Lately, someone asked a question about a Katherine antenna (Kathrein is a ...
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Should gray-area questions that are primarily theoretical be allowed here?
The designed scope of ham.stackexchange.com (ham.SE) and a few other other Stack Exchange sites overlap somewhat in what are often called "gray areas". (Or "grey areas", if you ...
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Should there be a new tag for questions regarding Morse code that aren't about amateur radio or the technology of radio?
The community recently voted to expand the scope of this site to include questions regarding Morse code that are not also about amateur radio or the technology of radio.
Should we make changes to our ...
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Should we expand the scope of this site to include questions about Morse code?
From time to time questions about Morse code pop up here, typically because Morse code is mentioned in some pop-culture context. Here's such a question that was inspired by a Google doodle. To me ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election
The 2021 Ham Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three ...
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Announcing a Pro Tempore Moderator Election for 2021
Summary: Amateur Radio Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on August 9 to bring in two more moderators.
For full details of the process, see the announcement on Meta ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #1 on Amateur Radio has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new pro-temp moderators are:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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When voting to close a question because it belongs on another SE site, why is ham.meta.SE the only choice?
I just tried to vote to close a question because it belongs on another SE site, in my opinion. When trying to vote I was forced to designate the other SE site that I think the question belongs in, ...
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How is this site moderated, and what can ordinary users do?
This site seems to have lots of rules, written and unwritten. Of course spammers and trolls are pretty rare, and discussions usually stay on-topic. This must take a lot of moderation. Who does the ...
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Why are there so few downvotes and flags here? What purposes do they serve? Should we encourage more?
Compared to other Stack Exchange sites, there aren't many downvotes or flags here. I can think of one reason: we have such a small community of regulars, and many of us may be hesitant to give ...
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How strictly should the close-as-duplicate rule be enforced?
Here are the reasons why questions are sometimes closed as duplicates. Read this first.
The Stack Exchange rules about duplicate questions were recently relaxed --in a recent post that I can't find-- ...
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Changes to the DX tag
I just edited the tag dx. Before, there was no descriptive text associated with it.
https://ham.stackexchange.com/tags/dx/info
If anyone wants to suggest edits, here's the place.
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of the question-and-answer format in ham.SE?
New people drift into ham.stackexchange.com all the time. Many are familiar with chat-style forum sites, and are surprised by the question-and-answer format and the rules that go with it. Many don't ...
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Should we have an official rule against asking the same question on more than one SE site?
Someone posted the question Circuit for RF Splitter, and @TylerStone pointed out that essentially the same question had been asked on electronics.SE. Everyone all over the web knows that cross-...
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Erroneous red dot indication on the review queues icon
For a few months now I have often seen the red dot on the review queues icon, which is meant to indicate that there are posts that have been flagged as low-quality in the queue to be reviewed. (For ...
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Discussion on proposed new tag
I proposed a new beginner tag at https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/55877914#55877914, but the right place to discuss it is here in Meta.
I already created that tag. Should we rename, ...
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Are non Amateur Radio discussions allowed?
In Area 51, there were questions as to if GMRS and CB radio should be allowed. The overwhelmingly most popular answer was that they should be allowed, but not encouraged. Commercial radio was strictly ...
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Deleting a question that is borderline unanswerable
Why is my diplexer such a spectacular failure?
I feel that my original question was basically too broad. I'd like to break this diplexer problem into two questions, one concerning how to best use a ...
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Let's have our own community ads!
As for other sites, SE went in and had another round of promotions. I think it's a good idea we do that, too, and even if its just to get our fingers warm when it comes to promoting this site on ...
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Later this year, hamSE may no longer be a beta site. What will happen?
Per this answer in a related question, we might come out of beta in late October.
What will happen then?
Will there any advantages, etc. of no longer being a beta site?
We need to prepare a logo or ...
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How can we improve the activity on this site?
I don't know about you all, but I'm quite grateful to have this site as a resource. I feel like it is starting to enter a decline, which has me worried. I see fewer good questions being asked, and ...
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beta status as of February 2020
I saw the question Will we come out of “beta” ? … ever? from November 2017, and I wondered how we're doing now, over two years later. So I looked up our site statistics on Area 51 here, and here's ...
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Random terribrilliant idea: ask all the FCC exam questions here?
Horrible idea that's somehow too good not to try pull off. Also, probably already considered years ago. But here goes anyway ;-)
One of this site's biggest dings against leaving beta is that we ...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Is anything ever closed?
I've noticed that basically nothing gets closed, ever. If something does get closed, it's by a diamond moderator, not by community voting, and even then, it's hit and miss.
There also seems to be ...
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Current Status from Area 51
Not sure how many folks know that Area 51 maintains stats for all the sites in Beta as they work towards graduation. To get out of Beta a site usually needs at least 4/5 stats in the green. Our site ...
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Are US Test Pool questions fair game for the community and/or for the beta?
Given that the answers are already known to the community, is it helpful to ask questions which are already part of the test pool? How can we get more technical questions going?
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Will we come out of "beta" ? ... ever?
Current status is:
so, what do we need to do to come out of beta ?
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Is this edit working?
Ok, let's settle something here.
I would like the people who closed my question to come to state their case.
I would like the people who have closed my question on wattage to copy and paste the ...
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Are questions concerning commercial business-band radios allowed here?
The hamSE What-topics-are-allowed-here help page does not specifically disallow questions about non-amateur-band business radios, business repeaters, antennas, etc. in such a way that the majority of ...
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Should questions on broadcast radio be specifically off topic?
We have had a few questions that deal specifically with broadcast radio. That is, some form of one-to-many transmissions, occasionally on frequency bands specifically assigned to broadcast radio as ...
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New tag: military-surplus
I added it a couple of days ago, and applied it to a number of questions.
Does it need any synonyms, etc? Please post any suggestions here.
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Is this edit ok? [duplicate]
Carrier phone system adaptation
Are theses edits sufficient to open this question.
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Contesting this closure
Carrier phone system adaptation
This a question is a concept stemming from a radio engineering handbook and my handbook talks about phone patching.
I have made conections to the radio, the only ...
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New tag: antenna-modeling
We need a new tag, antenna-modeling. See this question which is an example of why a new tag is needed.
I propose tag synonyms of NEC, modeling, EZNEC, mmana, and the names of other commonly used ...
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Should we rename from "ham.stackexchange.com" to "amateur.stackexchange.com"?
I ask because the likelihood of this question turning up is greater as time goes by and it's best to have this sooner rather than later.
Not all cultures approve of the word "ham", despite it being a ...
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Answer acceptance rate is catastrophic; how to encourage askers to accept?
A few stats:
Questions that aren't closed, and have accepted an answer: 779
Questions that aren't closed, have at least one answer, but no accepted one: 694
In other words, even when I answer a ...
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Please welcome your new moderators
I'm Pops, a Community Manager at Stack Exchange. I'm here today to announce two new moderators for your community, replacing two long-serving mods who have stepped down. Please welcome:
Please join ...
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Why our community doesn't have a logo?
Most of the communities in Stackexchange have dedicated logos.
But why don't we have one?
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What are rules of thumb with setting bounties?
I have been recently been given the privilege to start a bounty. I have been browsing the unanswered to get some questions a chance to be answered. What are some good rules to go by to award questions ...
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Should tags be created for ITU regions?
Kevin Reid AG6YO already explained to me that tags should be broad enough to include an entire category, however, I Safeguards against cross-border abuse?, which I suspect is specific for ITU Region 3....
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Increasing the Number of Questions per Day
I was looking at the Area 51 statistics for our site early today:
What stands out is the low average number of questions per day. We seem to be doing quite well on all other metrics but the 1.9 ...
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