CALO50 Posted March 15 Report Share Posted March 15 From home I look at the repeater map for places I’m going to visit, then load up the repeater details for use. When I arrive at the location, I recheck the repeater map and see additional available repeaters. Is this possible, or am I crazy, or a bit slow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRYS709 Posted March 15 Report Share Posted March 15 There are two options in the Repeaters Map that maybe were set differently each time: Show Offline Repeaters Show Stale Repeaters These come up when you click the hexagonally shaped widget in the upper left of the map. Sshannon and WRXB215 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreggInFL Posted March 15 Report Share Posted March 15 I'll bite. What's a stale repeater? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sshannon Posted March 15 Report Share Posted March 15 18 minutes ago, GreggInFL said: I'll bite. What's a stale repeater? A repeater in the myGMRS database which has had no data updates in over a year. The repeater might be just fine or not. Old data in a database is called “stale data.” WRXB215 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreggInFL Posted March 15 Report Share Posted March 15 I didn't realize "stale" was a word used generically wrt databases. Then again, I haven't written any code in decades, so I must also be stale. Thanks, Steve. Helpful as always. Sshannon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sshannon Posted March 15 Report Share Posted March 15 1 minute ago, GreggInFL said: I didn't realize "stale" was a word used generically wrt databases. Then again, I haven't written any code in decades, so I must also be stale. Thanks, Steve. Helpful as always. Back when I was writing software for “real-time” telemetry systems in 1992 or 93, I was assigned to write a routine that would identify stale data for electric utilities and change its color on-screen in the SCADA HMI (we weren’t very correct back then; we called it an MMI). Detecting stale data could be used to identify a sensor that had stuck somehow, such as pond level sensor in a hydro reservoir. “Pedantic” is my middle name! GreggInFL 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALO50 Posted March 16 Author Report Share Posted March 16 12 hours ago, WRYS709 said: There are two options in the Repeaters Map that maybe were set differently each time: Show Offline Repeaters Show Stale Repeaters These come up when you click the hexagonally shaped widget in the upper left of the map. O.K., makes sense. Help me catch up… I didn’t know about the Offline or Stale settings. If I didn’t change either when remote or on site, is there another explanation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRYS709 Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 43 minutes ago, CALO50 said: O.K., makes sense. Help me catch up… I didn’t know about the Offline or Stale settings. If I didn’t change either when remote or on site, is there another explanation? As you go closer into the map (+) closely located repeaters will be grouped together into a number such as 2 or 3, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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