What I was told about the 12 vs 16 character ...
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I don't want to see "Description" limited, but I'd like the 12-character limit on "Alpha" to be increased to 16. I was told back in the days when I was an admin that "Alpha" was limited to 12 characters because that was the number of characters of a specific scanner's display (I have no idea which one; every scanner I've ever used that supported alpha tags has been a minimum of 16 digits "wide").
Jay, I completely agree with transitioning to 16 character alpha tag fields and have voiced this before.
Lindsay told me that alpha tags were being kept at 12 characters due to amount of Pro-96/2096 scanners
still out there and increasing alpha taq fields to 16 characters would cause the 12 character folks
to have truncated tags, etc. I have a 10 year old 12 character Pro-96 and never use it and have
many times wondered just how many Pro-96/2096 users actually do RRDB imports vs custom program
them.
Bottom Line: Does it really make sense today in 2014 given all the 16 character models now out there,
for say 98% of us to have the EXTREME HASSLE of manually editing ALL our tags in our loads or
for the TINY 2% minority to have to edit/shorten/ their alpha tag fields ????
PS ~ How cool and interesting if all the RR members listed their ACTIVE scanners somewhere
inside their profile and the data could be toggled "Visible or Hidden" via a tab in their RR profile info.
Further, maybe if a users profile tab had a radio model equipment survey using only radio buttons,
this data could be tabulated and displayed in a statistics chart for all our morbid curiosities anytime
Just imagine seeing a bar graph chart summary page that would be viewable to all of us hobbiest !
How interesting it would be to see the equipment trends and which models enjoy what marketshare !
Hmm, just think what all this info would have potentialy in guiding and influencing users and marketers
such as Uniden, Whistler and Radio Shack. ie A brand might perhaps see trends and or needs and act