From: "Dave Sergeant" <dave@davesergeant.com>
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Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:32:24 +0100
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Not sure whether this has been mentioned on this reflector yet (cannot 
check as there are no archives...).

The Wikipedia article on 136kHz, which quite a few of us on here 
contributed to over the years, has just been renamed to '2200-meter 
band' by a US Wikipedia editor 'to comply with all other amateur band 
articles which have names in meters'. You can now find the article at 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2200-meter_band

Myself and Stewart G3YSX have already commented on the article's talk 
page pointing out that 136kHz has long been the agreed and used name 
for the band. As always with Wikipedia you have an upward struggle 
against smartie type editors who go out of their way to bring 
everything into Wikipedia house style. For this reason I do very little 
on Wikipedia these days as I have got frustrated in the past in various 
places. There is a similar issue with the 60-meter article at the 
moment.

If anybody else here wants to add to the comments on the article talk 
page it would be appreciated. We MAY win this battle... Remember 
anybody can edit/comment on Wikipedia, though it does sometimes help if 
you have set up an account so we can see who you are.

73 Dave G3YMC


http://www.davesergeant.com