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Can an Electronics & Radio Forum be introduced?

AncientMariner
Yesterday I posted the following in the "Online Community Support" forum and Elizabeth Morgan (Web Producer - Engineering Communities) has suggested that I put this in the "Ask the Community" Forum to see how many others are interested in having an Electronics & Radio forum.


"Quite often posts relating to Electronics or Radio appear in "Wiring and the Regulations BS7671" and looking at the available choice of Forums, there does not appear to be an alternative?

In the UK there used to be the Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers (IERE) which in 1988 merged with the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) which of course became the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in 2006."


So, I would be grateful if I can have some support.


Many thanks.


Clive
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    well those are interesting, if well kept secrets.

    The glaring weakness is that you cannot even browse them if you are not logged in, so the chances of anyone new ever seeing them and then joining up to take part must be pretty much nil.

    That thought seems to be borne out by the fact that none of them seems to support enough activity to be worth checking more than once every few weeks.  I do not know how you view it, but I see one of the strengths of this wiring and regs  forum is that it can be seen by anyone, member or not, logged in or not, though to post and PM you have to register.  Given the cover of screen names I cannot see the need for a closed shop.

    As a point of note, speaking personally I frequently do not log in unless I am about to post, it feels less risky than logging in and perhaps forgetting to sign out..

    Hiding stuff is a sure fire way of stopping people from finding it , and seems to work!


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    well those are interesting, if well kept secrets.

    The glaring weakness is that you cannot even browse them if you are not logged in, so the chances of anyone new ever seeing them and then joining up to take part must be pretty much nil.

    That thought seems to be borne out by the fact that none of them seems to support enough activity to be worth checking more than once every few weeks.  I do not know how you view it, but I see one of the strengths of this wiring and regs  forum is that it can be seen by anyone, member or not, logged in or not, though to post and PM you have to register.  Given the cover of screen names I cannot see the need for a closed shop.

    As a point of note, speaking personally I frequently do not log in unless I am about to post, it feels less risky than logging in and perhaps forgetting to sign out..

    Hiding stuff is a sure fire way of stopping people from finding it , and seems to work!


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