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Please create tags for BNC connectors and N type connectors

Done. Tags have to be on at least one question, so I added them to your question. Note that tags should generally be broad enough to have plenty of content (compare Have a tag for every single device?...
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Have a tag for every single device?

Early on, we followed the principle of having manufacturer tags but not device tags, essentially for the reason you state. But we haven't been deleting them when they're created, and I currently don't ...
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Discussion on proposed new tag

I find several of the arguments in answers to the meta.SE question that Kevin linked to in chat, Should we be adding tags like [beginner] to questions?, to be interesting. Of the four answers to that ...
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Discussion on proposed new tag

That tag falls on important metrics, imho: utility: great, now we'll have questions with that tag. How will that help? It doesn't describe a specific field of knowledge or skill necessary to answer. ...
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New tag: antenna-modeling

I had been thinking antenna-theory already includes this, but it's certainly a common enough topic to warrant a tag of some sort and separating the general theory from the details of modeling tools. ...
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Defining/changing the "noise" tag

Although some of us understand those concepts, many hams simply have no idea what the noise they're hearing is. For example, some don't understand the different sounds between constant lightning, ...
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Planning tag improvements: radio programming and interfacing

Here is what I have now actually done, which is not quite the same as the plan I laid out above: Created computer-control and made cat a synonym of it. Created radio-programming. Created audio-...
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Planning tag improvements: radio programming and interfacing

Regarding the proposed cat,I'm under the impression that CAT refers to a specific plug and jack on certain Yaesu, Icom, and Kenwood radios. I have an Elecraft K2, and Elecraft never refers to its ...
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Planning tag improvements: radio programming and interfacing

If you use equipment-interfacing you should be consistent and use equipment-programming in stead of radio-programming, so I would suggest the following: radio-programming --> equipment-programming ...
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“Power” tags need improvement

Hearing no objections or suggestions for improvement, I have done the following: Renamed power to rf-power. Where appropriate, added the tag dc-power and removed the tag rf-power.
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Proposed changes to antenna-related tags

I have now gone through all questions mentioning antennas and, where appropriate, added the tags antenna-theory and antenna-system. I have removed antenna-construction where it is irrelevant. The ...
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