<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Robert Bruninga <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bruninga@usna.edu" target="_blank">bruninga@usna.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>HAVE authors followed this? Are those dozen original alternate symbols now fully depricated so we can move on to use some of the new available symbl space.<br></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Considering that both the APRS.org symbols page (<a href="http://www.aprs.org/symbols.html">http://www.aprs.org/symbols.html</a>) and Hessu's icon set (<a href="https://github.com/hessu/aprs-symbols">https://github.com/hessu/aprs-symbols</a>) show the deprecated symbols as their past applications and not as the AVAIL black&red cross, I would say the answer is no, developers have not made an effort to deprecate these symbols. Should we make an effort to start purging those past uses for these symbols from application indexes and replacing them with the black&red AVAIL cross? Then there would at least be some kind of user-visible indication that they should have stopped using these symbols a decade ago.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Of course, I have words about why in the world would we need eight new overlays for sat-gates, but all of my past recommendations about symbols have been ignored, so I probably shouldn't bother. (Psst - just use 'S&' for "Sat-Gate" ) Have we really not had an established convention for 145.825MHz sat-gate symbols? I thought they were already using '/`' (Dish Antenna); what's wrong with that?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">--<br>Kenneth Finnegan, W6KWF<br><a href="http://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/" target="_blank">http://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/</a></div></div>
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