On 10/01/18 20:00, chirp_users-request@intrepid.danplanet.com wrote:
Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Concurrance
To: Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com>
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Like my Mother always said, "If you do not have anything nice to say, do
not talk at all". I'm astonished on how bad some forums treat newbees. Yes,
it gets old sometimes answering the same basic question many times, But
giving a rude answer will only keep others from seeking help. Do we want
the hobby to grow. or wither away as we all get old?

The only problem there, is if the same lame question is being asked time and time and time again, then there is something seriously missing in the instructions, documentation or help files.

More often than not, it's the creators of an application or package, that create that documentation (initially at least) but it's plain as the nose on our faces, that often they are "too close" to it all, to realise that some small but critical detail that is plain and obvious to them, is total smoke and mirrors to other people.

As always, the devil is in the detail.   In this case, my impression is that the documentation explaining the programming interface lead/hardware is often seriously lacking.   Not helped any by the radio manufacturers in some cases, and the plethora of other sites on the inter-web, that often have conflicting information.

73.

Dave G0WBX.
(Who in the past has been, and will probably again be the noob who's been flamed for asking "dumb" questions.  Plus at other times guilty as charged of the curt one liners.  We've all done it I suspect.  Hopefully I wont any more.)