Hi Dave I appreciate the struggle with "clever", self important editors. It
should be changed back to 136kHz because it is irrelevant to relate to other
Amateur bands because it is NOT an amateur band in the States! 2200m is a
commercial Part 5 rules band. When the Yanks stop bending to commercial
power distibution pressure and allow a band them maybe they can have some
say in its title. Hardly anyone in Europe refers to it as 2200m band
.....and anyway the Yanks dont know what metres are they even spell it
wrongly
:-)) after all, this is the English version of Wiki :-))
Alan (in "Grumpy mood" )
G3NYK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Sergeant" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 9:32 PM
Subject: LF: Wikipedia 136kHz article
> 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
>
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