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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thank you for your vote here. I would
hope they send a reminder to renew member, but as we know that is
not the case.<br>
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When I did it in May it was $10 via PayPal to "Florida Repeater
Council, Inc.. (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:k4lk@tampabay.rr.com">k4lk@tampabay.rr.com</a>)"<br>
Under instructions to merchant I put my coordinated repeaters and
those pending.<br>
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If you have PayPal you can send it direct to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:k4lk@tampabay.rr.com">k4lk@tampabay.rr.com</a>
without going via the website. <br>
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73's<br>
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On 10/2/16 11:39 PM, Leon Jurczyszyn wrote:<br>
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id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475465701789_2856">Bryan,</span></div>
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id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475465701789_2859">I find that the
FRC web page is not available. I can't remember when I sent
my donation within the last year. When the WEB page opens I
will send another $10 to join and you will have my proxy.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span>You are absolutely correct...</span></div>
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K8ZAG</span></div>
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Bryan Fields <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Bryan@bryanfields.net"><Bryan@bryanfields.net></a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b>
Sunday, October 2, 2016 10:22 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b>
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and welcome to the Florida Repeater Discussion
List,</div>
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<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNoSpacing">I am Bryan
Fields, W9CR.<span> </span></div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNoSpacing"> </div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNoSpacing">I’m
involved in amateur radio in the Tampa Bay area,
with membership in four local clubs and chairman
of the Technical Committee for my local group. </div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNoSpacing"> </div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNoSpacing">Professionally
I am a Network Architect with a major telecom
company.<span> </span>I’ve been a licensed
amateur since 1995 (over 2/3 of my life), hold a
GROL+Radar and have a background in
cellular/microwave networks. </div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Fellow Amateurs,
the FRC is an organization run amuck.
Incompetent directors are managing it,
flouting the bylaws, violating Florida Law,
and ignoring member needs. <span> </span>I am
asking for your proxy for the upcoming FRC
meeting.</span></div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">It has failed in
its ability to coordinate operations of
amateur radio repeaters in the following ways:</span></div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span><span></span></span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Publication of
the FRC database on a public website</span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></li>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This
database dump in MySQL format and the
associated webpages show without a doubt
the level of incompetency in the
programming behind the database.<span> </span>This
is nothing but gross negligence on the
part of Director Rodakis and Director
Lavender.<span> </span></span><span
style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span><span> </span></span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Per
the coordination policy, locations are to
be kept secret, however a Reddit user was
kind enough to post a Google earth KML
showing the coordinated location of every
repeater in the state.</span><span
style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span><span> </span></span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">All your
personal data, phone, email, home address,
repeater site address and Repeater Site
GPS coordinates are published.<br>
<br>
</span></li>
</ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Length
of the coordination process is unacceptable!
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></li>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As of
this writing coordination applications
post 1/25/2016 have not been processed.<span>
</span>It’s <b><i>October</i></b>!</span><span
style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span><span></span></span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">If the
coordinator cannot process applications in
a reasonable time, he needs to step down.</span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Renewals
have not been processed post 5/7/2016!<span>
</span>As most coordinations expire on
9/30/2016, this means no members may vote
under the bylaws!<span> </span>This
applies to the board as well.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span><span></span></span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Violation of
the coordination policy by the directors</span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Willful
violation of the bylaws by the directors</span><span
style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span><span></span></span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Willful
violations of FS 617 regarding members
request for information</span></li>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Acknowledged
receipt of this by President Kassis</span><span
style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span></span></span></li>
</ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span><span></span></span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Publicly
stating the policy of the FRC is “is unable
to search for available frequencies”, when
this is the FCC definition of a frequency
coordinator.<span> </span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When
they do suggest frequencies there active
repeaters on them, some even coordinated
well under the radius.</span><span
style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span><span></span></span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Inventing new
coordination polices on the fly without
approval of the board</span></li>
</ul>
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<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">The FRC must
be reformed if it wishes to keep its
legitimacy.<span> </span>Frequency
coordination is voluntary in amateur radio,
and there is little reason for amateur radio
operators in Florida to seek coordination
from the FRC under this current
administration.</span></div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">My goal is to
transform this organization into a healthy
helping hand for repeater operators and
other amateur spectrum users.<span> </span>No
one should be answered with contempt for
months after putting an application in for
coordination only to be told “fill it out
again, we can’t edit it”.<span> </span>This
should not be an organization which exists
as a good-ol’-boy system breading contempt;
rather one which operates in the open, in
accordance with its bylaws, and accountable
to its members.</span></div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">The FRC should
ask how to say “Yes” rather than saying “No”
in working with their members and other
amateurs. </span></div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div>
<div
class="yiv1760526750MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"
style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span
style="font-family: Wingdings;">My plan to
get us on the right track is:<br>
</span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span><span></span></span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Remove the
current directors for gross incompetency
and exposing the organization to
liability:</span><span style="font-family:
Calibri;"></span></li>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ray
Kassis, N4LEM</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dana
Rodakis, K4LK</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(Glenn)
Mike Fletcher, NI4M</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Chuck
Lavender, W4CLL</span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></li>
</ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Demand
new elections for existing directors in
compliance with the bylaws.</span><span
style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span><span></span></span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Establish a
bylaw committee to rewrite the bylaws and
change the organization structure to
better serve all amateurs in Florida.</span><span
style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span><span></span></span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Establish a
development process for new policies from
the membership</span><span
style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span><span></span></span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Encourage
input from the membership based on sound
technical policies</span><span
style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span><span></span></span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">De-centralize
coordination by having a web enabled
database be accessible to the public
showing all history of an application
through coordination.<span></span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">No one
person should be the gatekeeper of the
database.<span> </span></span><span
style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span><span></span></span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Make all
records of the FRC open to the public, as
any non-profit serving the public interest
must be.</span></li>
</ul>
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<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">I will make
a motion to accomplish this at the next
meeting at the Melbourne Hamfest meeting.<span>
</span>To make this happen, I am asking
for your proxy, if you’re a member of the
FRC.<span> </span>You will need to
print out this form and sign it, then send
a scan or legible picture of it to me via
email or text message. If you can attend
the meeting, please do so.</span></div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">It’s $10 to
become a member on the FRC website and it
buys the right to have a say in the future
of amateur radio in Florida.<span> </span></span></div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://florida-repeaters.org/donate.htm"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://florida-repeaters.org/donate.htm</a></span></div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">I fully
expect to be shouted down by the board,
but as members we cannot be ignored.<span>
</span>I wish to resolve this via the
membership, but if ignored I do intend to
comply the board, by any legal means, to
follow the bylaws and FS 617.</span></div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">I need your
proxy by the Friday, October 7, 2016.<span>
</span></span></div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">73’s and see
you at Melbourne,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><font
face="Calibri"> </font>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><font
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discuss this on list. If you wish to not
be a part of this discussion you can
remove yourself using the link at the
bottom. I'm happy to oblige your wishes
via direct email as well if you have any
questions. </font><br>
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