> When the first question is, "How can I modify my radio to transmit on > police frequencies?", I'm thinking this site will need a LOT of help. >
It's too bad that the site is serving that question first right now ... ultimately the Stack Exchange engine will dynamically generate the front-page questions list based on recent activity, and I'd say that one is a bit of a lemon. Many of the questions are a lot better (and anyway, everything on there is quite young). At this stage, the voting and responses to the proposed questions are the more important content. > I'm not going to debate its value but wouldn't most prospective hams > find their way to ARRL, QRZ, or eHam first (I honestly don't know as I > was licensed well before the worldwide web)? This is my opinion, of course, but I think a Stack Exchange site (with a critical mass of good minds involved) has potential to far surpass the usefulness of any of the resources you mentioned. Without going into too much detail about why, I was really glad to see that this effort is underway. Mainly because the community-content-moderation model that Stack Exchange uses has a lot more content filtering power than the forum/comments-driven content models of eHam or QRZ. If you're unfamiliar with the Stack Exchange site format, I'd recommend exploring this example of a mature Stack Exchange site: http://stackoverflow.com/ I believe it was the first such site --- a collaborative Q&A site for programmers. It has definitely been useful for me as a fledgling coder. Since the amateur radio site is still "pre-beta", it doesn't have the full Q&A features yet. Just my thoughts! 73 de N2NLY, Jason Conklin _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-hams Post to : ubuntu-hams@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-hams More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
