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[INDY72]

LOL... if the beer is what makes the clockworks in da head come up with stuff that fast.. here, have a 12 pack....

Ohh I almost forgot... How bout my Golden Eagles in Basketball??.. and They won thier Bowl game in Football....

OK bragging done!

Good job on the fast responces Lindsay!

 

[DaveH]

Lou

I tried responding using "quote" but it was getting too messy (you quote of my quote etc.). I'm sure that it's not all misunderstandings at my end but moving ahead...

On the TRS Database main page, you will be searching on "State" whether you are in the US, Canada, or Australia for that matter. Yes, in Canadian listings there is reference to "Province" but it is not uniform. This is not going to kill anybody, just kind of bugs me seeing it all the time.

As far as I know, Canada is not inconsistant in its naming of geographic subdivisions. Provinces are divided into counties as the US is; and further into "townships". Ottawa resides in Carleton county.

Callsigns ARE public information with the limitation that "sensitive" records for police, military, and certain parts of government are blocked (all for our own good of course ) The IC database has been extremely useful nevertheless.

Go to any trunked system record and click on the site link, which opens a pop-up window; it is there. For US systems clicking on
the FCC Callsign takes you to the FCC database. For non-US systems, the same happens and of course nothing will be found,
so it is a bit of a minor logistical error. Could I suggest the callsign be ghosted in those cases, or if the link is not hard-wired and can be set by country, for Canada it would be:

http://apollo.ic.gc.ca/pls/eng_alpha/web_search.call_sign_input

(this link seems to be temporarily down at the moment).

You are correct, SMR and EMSR are used by Industry Canada. I missed this for some reason; sorry. A search of www.strategis.ic.gc.ca confirms this. That said, I don't rely on the news media for technical definitions, they sometimes borrow terms from wherever convenient.

As for us all being Americans (teehee) I suppose "we" are all North Americans.

I am aware that the admins are doing the best they can and at times overloaded; the critique is not personal, except of course for individual opinions.

Dave

 

[loumaag]

Dave,

I see what you mean on the main DB page for Canada. I will throw in a suggestion to call them "States/Provinces" like they are at the top of the page.

As for county/province reference. I was not really involved in the specifics, but that came out a while ago amoung the admins and it was resolved to go with counties. What I found most interesting about your comment was that you say Ottawa is in Carleton county, and I don't see a Carleton county in Ontario. :?

Your comment about the link is a good point, I will enter a "bug" report and see if we can fix that.

In any case, keep looking out for things like that, after all, this can't be the best site on the Internet, unless it is.

 

[OntarioScannerNut]

I think it's more or less referred as The City of Ottawa much like the other amalgamated areas.

For an up to date listing of Ontario Municipalities. You should check out http://199.202.235.157/ylg/ontario.html

Dave,

As for county/province reference. I was not really involved in the specifics, but that came out a while ago amoung the admins and it was resolved to go with counties. What I found most interesting about your comment was that you say Ottawa is in Carleton county, and I don't see a Carleton county in Ontario. :?

 

[DaveH]

Ok, how's this: Top 100 Conventional, and Top 50 Trunked Information Contributors:

http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=Submitters

Check out where you rank.

This is a start...

-Lb

Interesting, and a move forward. BTW I see a few duplicates, maybe just slight differences in name spelling...Thanks.

Dave

 

[DaveH]

I think it's more or less referred as The City of Ottawa much like the other amalgamated areas.

For an up to date listing of Ontario Municipalities. You should check out http://199.202.235.157/ylg/ontario.html

OK, there's a bit more to than I first realized, with regions and municipalities. I don't know about U.S. states, but some provinces have been going a bit "amalgamation-crazy" in the last few years. In Ottawa, services have gone down and taxes up, so it's been a smashing success (for somebody...)

The new City of Ottawa is the old city merged with eight townships which (to further complicate things) used to be called the "Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton), which was also Carleton County. I'm fairly sure the County still technically exists, but may not be called that in light of the newer entity.

There is also been merging of (other)counties referred to as the "United counties of ....". to add confusion.

So I shouldn't expect people outside the region to pick up on all of this.

It does raise some interesting questions, whether the Database wants to distinguish between these entities. There are other "regions" or cities listed under "counties" in Ontario. It's just another of those things that doesn't fit well under a "standard" template. Sorry if it seems I'm beating the issue to death...

Dave

 

[loumaag]

Sorry if it seems I'm beating the issue to death...

Nah Dave, we don't think that. :roll: :lol:

 

[peterjmag]

Wow! I didn't know I had submitted that many conventional ! I guess I need to find another hobby? :shock:

P.J. Maguire

 

[hulka]

My comment from the peanut gallery, I think that is the way to go. http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=Submitters

It will get the person recognized but it does not specifically say what info that they submitted.

Just a question though, if a person submits 500 frequencies with each frequency in seperate emails for lets say a conventional system is that credit for 500 submissions?


Kevin

 

[loumaag]

Just a question though, if a person submits 500 frequencies with each frequency in seperate emails for lets say a conventional system is that credit for 500 submissions?

Yes, which is why there is a note at the top of the list about quantity vs quality. The list really doesn't mean much, as even people who are banned from the site appear on it, and there are names on there of people who submit nothing but junk and are ignored for the most part.

Take what you see on that list with a full handful of salt. :lol:

 

[hulka]

Thats a good copy!