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I wonder if it would be an evil thing to (ab)use ham.SE as a kind of support forum for the APRSdroid app.

@Dan You can never known if it is a Genuine Chinese Product or a Chinese clone of one... ;-)

@Mike people are working on SE-IRC gateways... meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/59760/irc-access-for-the-chat

Besides of that, CHIRP is really great :D

@Dan Sometimes it is not about the drivers but about the hardware. Rumor has it that there are really many cheap chinese clones of the pl23xx chipset, with really bad production quality.

@MichaelKjörling I am not even aware of any amateur radio activities on 43 MHz, so I just wonder. Clueless me :)

@MichaelKjörling Is there any reason for using Mc/s instead of Hz?

Oh no! More Android apps for amateurs? I really need to invest some more time to polish up APRSdroid

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I have a meeting in <6 hours and I need to catch some sleep still.+

That is strange. you have more rep on ham.SE and more total rep. I see no reason why I should be able to do things you are not allowed to do

btw, you've got more rep on ham.se than me

everybody is, I suppose. But your changes have to be reviewed. And you still must change at least 6 characters

@Everyone heh, this is something different then.

@Everyone no, I was fixing a typo in one of the answers out there, and SE refused to allow the edit, because I did not change at least 6 characters :(

@MichaelKjörling then you need to upvote me more! :-P Nah, just kidding. It'd suffice to review the edit queue, if not already happened (which it probably did).

/me just fell into the 6 characters edit restriction, when attempting to fix a URL :-(

Alright; I will worry less and ask more :)

@Amber wouldn't that invite people to tag aprs+digital on plain-aprs questions?

@Amber ah, interesting opinion. I was thinking in the way of browsing the site by tags, looking for interesting things that might be related to the topic of interest.

What is the best way to handle tag subsets, i.e. aprs is a subset of packet is a subset of digital. Should all three be tagged on aprs questions, or is there some way to let SE know that all aprs questions are also packet and digital?

I am outing myself more and more as an ignorant software geek. :)

isn't it [[ ... ]] for multiline?

congrats, you got your TeX math now! :-D

@MichaelKjörling "The fan in the Kenwood D710 mobile radio is turning on on every transmission, including APRS beacons. This happens even when there is no thermal need for spinning it, and is annoying in a quiet shack (as opposed to under the car seat). Is there a way to turn the fan off / make it temperature dependant / replace it with a quieter one?"

@MichaelKjörling my question was equipment-specific, nothing that can be useful to non-d710-owners

So, what about chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/11898822#11898822 ?

@Dan I think that question is related to "product A vs. product B", because both products would become obsolete over the years. It is probably not too much of a stretch to conclude that questions about "product A" specific issues would become obsolete as well, and thus are off-topic.

@Dan Is that documented somewhere? I've skimmed the meta site, and can not find any links to ham.SO FAQ...

Also, what about gear-specific questions? My Kenwood D710 fan is noisy, turning up on every APRS beacon sent, but I feel like asking for a mod/howto to fix that is off-topic.

I'm pondering about adding some more APRS questions, like about the frequencies used worldwide, or about why WIDEn-N is the default path, but both of them turn up pretty good results in Google - any strong opinions on that?

hey folks :)