Hello, is anyone else making use of city channels such as

Name: Atlanta
Key: AQ==

to give a more local public group and mute LongFast, etc? The reason I ask is because we got a band opening this morning and I was trying to chat with some of the locals and broken conversation messages from the band opening were coming in to the chat on LongFast. It got me to thinking that it may not be very polite to have conversations on LongFast when you could reserve it for travelers and airplanes similar to CB Channel 19.

Meshcore has something similar, they call region scopes, where their repeaters can be set to repeat all messages and region specific messages. And if a repeater is not set to repeat region specific messages, then if it receives them, they will be dropped and not be forwarded on.

  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipOP
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    1 day ago

    Correct. What it does do, though, is keeps the chat more local so that you aren’t sending out region-specific information on the long-fast channel for absolutely everybody to read.

    Say Atlanta, Georgia and Nashville, Tennessee have a link that works between them and people in Nashville are talking about local restaurants on the Long Fast channel and people in Atlanta are talking about restaurants on the Long Fast channel. Well, the people in Nashville are seeing stuff about the Atlanta restaurants and people in Atlanta are seeing stuff about the Nashville restaurants.

    Only the very small subset of people who are going to visit from Nashville to Atlanta or vice versa would care about that chatter. Therefore, having an Atlanta channel and a Nashville channel would make sense even if both of the presets are along fast.

    • just some guy@sh.itjust.works
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      21 hours ago

      I think you make a good point, there’s a lot of overlap right now with Chattanoogas LF>MF switch and Atlanta’s LF bridge. Unfortunately most of the time that overlap occurs as someone in ATL jumping on the LF bridge just to give a kind of seemingly mocking “you guys are still on LF?” Once the MF switch is completed the MF channel will be a huge mix of several cities and probably be too crowded for effective use of sharing localized info. I think it would be a great idea for cities to discuss/implement channels for use of locally specific conversation.