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[edit] TV-FM DX

I believe all the objections from last time have been addressed. Andre (talk) 18:46, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

Support Slightly too techy in parts but it's unavoidable I guess. It's certainly the place I'd look if I wanted information on it. --PopUpPirate 22:03, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

Object, but may support later if it's cleaned up. The itty-bitty paragraphing is a real problem—needs some flow. Why 'miles' and 'feet', at least mostly? The spelling is not US, so why not use metrics consistently? Tony 06:36, 5 September 2005 (UTC) Comment. Well if it's written from a UK perspective, miles and feet are still the most pre-dominantly used measurements of distance. Not very scientific, I know, when we're metric in just about everything else. How this sort of thing should be handled on Wikipedia, I don't know. Angmering 14:43, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

The UK is now a metric country. As a matter of practicality, and to be inclusive rather than exclusive, metrics should appear, possibly with US measurements in parentheses. Tony 08:12, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

It's not a mostly UK thing, but someone recently changed all the spellings from US to UK. I don't know why, but I didn't revert it. Andre (talk) 15:32, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

• Object
  1. metric equivalents absent. A significant population of readers come from countries that do not use the imperial system. It would be unfair for them to keep using convertors.
  2. User the non breaking space when connecting numbers to units. eg. 15 MHz. which renders it as 15 MHz; 16 mm etc.
  3. All inline links should be formatted using a footnote style. eg. the {{ref}} type.
  4. Federal Communications Commission is introduced without also defining acronym, which is used later on in the article. It should be mentioned that it is a US govt. agency.
  5. The history section lists only three four countries. Any more notable events in other countries?
  6. ...pre-war band to a new band at 88–108 MHz you've not mentioned the significance of the move. This band is known as "broadcast band" and was adopted my by most countries for commercial FM. (at least that's what I recollect)
  7. ...India, Middle East, North... --> "...the Middle East....
  8. The cities are not formatted properly. You've used CITY, STATE for US locations and CITY, COUNTRY for non-US. For example you've used Chicago, Illinois, and Monterey, Mexico. Since this article is on a global topic, I'd suggest you drop the display of the state as Chicago is globally well known. So [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]] and Monterey in Mexico would be more appropriate. (there's also no other Chicago in the US so the name of the city won't conflict) Similarly with Riverhead, Long Island, New York, and Melbourne, Victoria. This problem also is present in =Notable tropospheric DX receptions=. The main problem here is that it is assumed that readers would know of all of US states.
  9. Who is George Palmer?
  10. 'Roger Bunney also published... reads more like a promo for the author, not needed.
  11. Australia and South Africa are linked multiple times. Please remove duplicate wikifying.
  12. =Afternoon TEP= needs expansion
  13. Woodruff T. Sullivan III? ---> astronomer and physicist Woodruff....
  14. Use of single sub-headings under a heading. 4.1, 6.1, 9.1. Either merge with parent topic or have two subheadings.
  15. Anthony Mann? Todd Emslie? format as I've shown for Woodruff.
• There may be more issues I might catch later, but that's all I can muster up for now. User:Nichalp/sg 08:00, September 7, 2005 (UTC)

• Object.
  1. With the exception of Image:Arecibo.arp.750pix.jpg, all the images are under a license of "fair use with permission". This is far from an ideal license: would it be possible to contact the creators of the pictures and ask for the images to be licensed under the GFDL or the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license?
  2. The image Image:Arecibo.arp.750pix.jpg is under a license of {{noncommercial}}. This is not an acceptable license for Wikipedia.

  --Carnildo 20:59, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

• Object. I agree with most of Nichalp's points, but would add that the article is just too long in its current state (39KB, by my count). Considering the highly technical content of the article, this is deadly. It should either be scaled back, or split up. Plus, some of it just seems to meander rather randomly: the list of major meteor showers is kind of silly, IMO, as this is the sort of information better covered by an astronomy article. It seems sufficient to point out that meteor showers can and do affect DX reception. – Seancdaug 16:02, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

• Comment. Virtually all of the DX television reception reports were sourced from 1960s-1980s U.S. and U.K. radio/television/scientific technical journals. Because these journals almost invariably used miles as a distance reference, I felt it was proper to avoid metrics in the article. Even today, U.S. TV FM DX groups such as the WTFDA, commonly use miles in connection with distant reception reports.

Bivariate-correlator 13:06, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

As a compromise, I recently added metric measurements in parentheses.

Bivariate-correlator 10:14, 2 October 2005 (UTC)