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Move or delete general RF propagation sections

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Terrestrial RF propagation is well-covered elsewhere in Wikipedia, one example being Skywave, another Tropospheric_propagation. There's a lot of general propagation information in the 2-meter article that doesn't directly relate to, or is not unique to, 2-meter operation. A lot of this information is redundant with respect to these other articles. I would think the general propagation content here should be deleted or moved, with the appropriate "see also" links added. AKeenEye 04:03, 10 September 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by AKeenEye (talkcontribs)

Loss of band to Amateurs

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I've been seeing stuff about the loss of this band to amateur radio. Of course, I am not an expert and I came here to have a look. Is this topic worth inclusion in this article? -Roxy, the dog. wooF 10:10, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Is it lost? Is there consideration on losing it? Gah4 (talk) 01:10, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Simple radios for FM repeater operation have become plentiful and inexpensive in recent years.

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There is a {{citation needed}} for: Simple radios for FM repeater operation have become plentiful and inexpensive in recent years. Modern technology makes things like this inexpensive, and production in countries like China makes them plentiful. Is there something more that needs to be said? Gah4 (talk) 01:12, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Someone seems to have put {{cn}} on just about every paragraph. Some might actually be true, but most are so well known or obvious that they aren't needed. Even more, they didn't discuss any of them here! Gah4 (talk) 08:31, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, there are vast swathes of unsourced text in this article, and those tags are individually quite justified. I acknowledge that the text is not too bad in terms of an article on this subject if there were refs. Somebody has made a very valid point here, and I would hope that wikihams might provide some citations for us, there must be huge amounts of WP:RS judging by the verbosity of amateur radio enthusiasts. (that's an observational joke btw.)
So yes, perhaps the editor who tag bombed the article, and I haven't looked at the history yet to see, might have had the decency to discuss it here, but it is entirely possible that it was a good faith tagging spree by a newbie or a helpful passer by. Not sure what to do, as I agree that the text isn't unreasonable, it's just not sourced, and we require sources. -Roxy the dog. wooF 15:23, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
This diff added the tags, plus some other stuff in September 2021. The editor has made just two edits to the project, so it was a drive-by. If this was a controversial and disputed area, I might support removing the text tagged until citations could be supplied, and though this text might be trivially verifiable, I'm not comfortable leaving it all alone, but I'm going to. Happy to discuss further. -Roxy the dog. wooF 15:36, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I didn't remove them all, partly because I didn't feel like doing it, but some might be good. It was the one that some people might put an antenna on the roof of their house that got me. For one, there is weasel words where the statement is generic enough not to be wrong. (They might, but it doesn't say that anyone did.) But some can probably use a good WP:RS. Gah4 (talk) 18:24, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]