Talk:Shortwave bands

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Please help improve this article or section by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page or at requests for expansion. (January 2007)

For a May 2005 deletion debate over this page see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Shortwave bands

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Extremely badly written, I believe it would be better to get rid of it completely and start from the scratch. Unless rewritten, I'll nominate it for deletion. - Mike Rosoft 19:22, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I agree. Beginning with the title: If it were named Amateur HF Bands, that would be better, since there are also the broadcast shortwave bands too. Roodog2k 20:34, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Okay, I've taken a big hack at it, though I don't know much about commercial allocations outside the international broadcasting and amateur radio worlds. I'd like someone to take a hack at the Marine and Land Mobile section to flesh it out a bit. Haikupoet 02:16, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Expansion Needs

Basically work is needed to cover three uses -- military, commercial, and maritime uses of the HF bands. When I rewrote this article way the hell back in May, I didn't (and still don't) have the expertise to fill in those sections. Haikupoet 05:37, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Redirection?

I don't like the redirection from 12 Meters. There should be a separate page for 12M like the rest of the articles as some radios are sold to cover that band. Davidl9999 (talk) 10:30, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

I've changed the redirect (along with that of 17 meters and 30 meters) to point to the WARC bands article. Given the small spectrum of these three bands (250 kHz total) and their related nature, I doubt that the individual bands warrant articles unless the WARC bands atricle has been extensively expanded first. Caerwine Caer’s whines 16:09, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

That makes very good sense. Thanks! Davidl9999 (talk) 21:48, 14 December 2007 (UTC)