MICHIGAN AREA REPEATER COUNCIL NEWSLETTER
WEB SITE:
http://www.qsl.net/miarc e-mail:
miarc@yahoogroups.com
Special Edition October 2003
|
Minutes
September Meeting Delta Township, MI Minutes from
MARC Meeting September 7, 2003 Meeting called to order by
President Dennis Gaboury at 1:00 PM. Meeting called to order by President Dennis Gaboury at 1:00PM. A Quorum was present. Board member absent, Secretary Richard
Ranta. After introductions the minutes from the previous session were read, a
motion was made to accept the minutes as read, by Kelly Karpp, seconded by
Ron Gordon, motion passed. Treasurer Kelly Karpp read the treasurer's report. $5328.37 in
savings, $535.42 in checking. Detailed list available for anyone's interest.
Motion made Ron Gordon to accept report as read, seconded by Bruce Winchell,
motion passed. No correspondence. Old Business: Dan Thompson N8WKM presented the SERA Band plan for 900MHz to the
Board. Dan recommended that we adopt this band plan due to the fact the ARRL
does not go into detail for assigning repeater pairs, etc., etc. After much
discussion, Kelly Karpp/seconded by Dan Thompson made a motion, that under
the DOG, we use the SERA 900 Mhz Band Plan as a guide for coordinating
repeaters. Motion passed. If further information is required go to
http://www.sera.org It was brought up Dave Johnson and Bruce that 32% of the
coordinated Repeaters in the Lower Peninsula are two years or more past due
with their TDS's. A good portion of that 32% is three years or more. Motion
made by Bruce/ seconded by Kelly, that the funds be made available to send
out a full mailing with a notice of possible de- coordination if current
TDS's are not filed. Motion passed. De-coordinations will commence, using the authority given the
Coordinator in Section I, Paragraph F, Sub-Paragraph 1 of the MARC Standards: Minutes
Continued on Page 2 |
Loss
of Coordination Pending The
MARC Database Manager has reported that 32% of all coordinated repeaters are
now in a delinquent reporting status. This is inexcusable, and a Zero
Tolerance policy is now in effect regarding keeping all bi-annual TDS reports
current. A
list of repeater coordinations that have been placed in a MARC
de-coordination project is included in this newsletter. The reason for each
one of them being on this list is Serious Reporting Delinquency. It is our
goal to clear this list within the next 90 days. There
is only one possible way to be removed from this list: Send in a current,
complete TDS report, and do it very soon. If
a proper TDS report is not received within thirty days of the publication of
this newsletter, the Coordinator has been instructed by the Board of
Directors to begin decoordinating this list beginning with those that are the
most overdue. He has been further instructed to revoke all remaining
delinquent coordinations on the list by January 1, 2004; using the authority
given the Coordinator in Section I, Paragraph F, Sub-Paragraph 1 of the MARC
Standards: "1.
If updates (from the system sponsor) are not received a minimum of ONCE PER
TWO YEARS, the (M.A.R.C.) Coordinator MAY WITHDRAW THE COORDINATION
AUTHORIZATION." All
decoordinated frequency pairs will be returned to the frequency pool for
reassignment. SPONSORS,
BE AWARE that the ultimate responsibility for these filing these reports lies
with the Sponsor, as the actual holder of a coordination. While your listed Trustee
is our primary contact person, and most Trustees do file the necessary
reports, some of them don't do it. Your Trustee does not hold ultimate
responsibility for assuring that reports are kept current, you do. Dennis
Gaboury President |
|
(Minutes
Continued from page 1) "1. If updates (from the system sponsor) are not received a
minimum of ONCE PER TWO YEARS, the (M.A.R.C.) Coordinator MAY WITHDRAW THE
COORDINATION AUTHORIZATION." All de-coordinated frequency pairs will be returned to the
frequency pool for reassignment. Next order of business: Elections. Those running for office are
as follows. Vice-President: R. Bruce Winchell, Treasurer: Kelly Karpp,
Director: Ron Gordon. Nominations were opened up, with none from the floor or
absentee ballots, and the secretary absent, the President made a motion,
seconded by Dave Johnson that a unanimous vote be cast. Motion passed. For
record, two absentee ballots were cast. Next meeting December 7th to be held in the Battle Creek area.
Deadline for the newsletter is November 1. Dave Johnson/Ron Gordon made a motion to close the meeting at
2:23PM. Motion passed. Minutes taken by Bruce Winchell, typed by Dennis Gaboury. _________________________________________ Message From the Coordinator I am very glad that we finally have a basic band plan
for narrow-band 900mhz to work with. Hopefully, we will soon see the same
thing with 2.5 ghz. Seeing as this
band plan was instituted under the Developmental Operating Guidelines (DOG),
put in place in June, all coordinations in this band will be issued on a
provisional basis, with no time limit, but it will give you the full
protections of coordination. The band plan will be subject to change over the
next three years as limits, problems and procedures are discovered and
experimented with, and we have to keep everything flexible until it is fully
developed and finalized by a vote of the membership. Congratulations and
thanks for the help from all those who had input into this project. You did a
lot of careful research and a great job. Anyone who has an interest in the 900mhz band should
probably contact dan@waycom.com. Dan appears to be the spiritual leader of
the group that is experimenting and he can tell you more about equipment,
costs, known issues and pitfalls better than the Coordinator can. |
DUES NOTICE We
are approaching the time of year when membership dues ($10.00) begin to be
renewed. We need to clear up some confusion before it happens again. The
MARC membership year is from January to January. If you paid MARC dues in
July of 2003, it does not mean that your dues are paid until July of 2004.
They are only paid until January 1, 2004. It gets confusing in the last
quarter of every year, because people forget to put what year they are paying
dues for on their checks or in an attached note. BE SURE YOU PUT THE YEAR
THAT YOU WISH TO PAY DUES FOR ON YOUR CHECK. If you do not put this
information on your check, and you are not on record as having paid 2003
dues, your check will be applied to 2003 dues instead of 2004. We're almost
sure you did not intend to pay for just 2 or 3 months of 2003, (some people
do want to do that) but we follow standard accounting procedures that dictate
that dues money received must be applied to the year in which it is received,
unless otherwise specified by the sender. __________________________________________________ Treasurers Report September 06, 2003 Funds on hand as of
September 06 2003 Savings: $5,328.37 Checking: 535.42 Total Funds:
$5,863.79 Income Dues: 06/01/03 – 09/06/03 06/08/03 $70.00 09/03/06 60.00 09/06/03
20.00 Dividend (Checking)
07/01/03 0.62 Dividend ( Savings)
07/01/03 12.30 Total Income 162.92 Expenses: State of Michigan 08/05/03 $ 10.00 Newsletter (Waycom) 274.74 Total Expenses 284.74 Submitted by Kelly Karp
KB8RWG Treasurer |
Current De-Coordination List
|
|
|