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<p>Bryan,</p>
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<p>I ask have you built and maintained a repeater in Florida??? Not just set on a board in a club. I see nothing in your Ham resume that states this. Being a Network Architect qualifies you for little in repeaters and in electronics.</p>
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<p>I've worked with the FRC for over 20 years and find they do have problems, but for repeater coordination are one of the best I've seen.<br>
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<div id="Signature">73, ron, n9ee/r a know code Extra<br>
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<div>Ron Wright, N9EE/R
<div>BSEE</div>
<div>Micro Computer Concepts</div>
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<div>mccrpt@tampabay.rr.com</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 2, 2016 10:22 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> frc-info@lists.keekles.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [FRC] Florida Repeater Council Information</font>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Greetings and welcome to the Florida Repeater Discussion List,</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I am Bryan Fields, W9CR.<span style=""> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">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.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Professionally I am a Network Architect with a major telecom company.<span style="">
</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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><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 style=""> </span>I am asking for your proxy for the upcoming FRC meeting.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">It has failed in its ability to coordinate operations of amateur radio repeaters in the following ways:</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family:Wingdings"><span style=""><span style=""></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Publication of the FRC database on a public website</span><span style="font-family:Calibri"></span>
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<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 style="">
</span>This is nothing but gross negligence on the part of Director Rodakis and Director Lavender.<span style="">
</span></span><span style="font-family:Wingdings"><span style=""><span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </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 style=""></span></span>
</li><li><span style="font-family:Wingdings"><span style=""><span style=""> </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>
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</li><li><span style="font-family:Calibri">Length of the coordination process is unacceptable!
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<li><span style="font-family:Calibri">As of this writing coordination applications post 1/25/2016 have not been processed.<span style="">
</span>It’s <b style=""><i style="">October</i></b>!</span><span style="font-family:Wingdings"><span style=""></span></span>
</li><li><span style="font-family:Wingdings"><span style=""><span style=""></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 style="">
</span>As most coordinations expire on 9/30/2016, this means no members may vote under the bylaws!<span style="">
</span>This applies to the board as well.</span><br style="">
<span style="font-family:Calibri"></span></li></ul>
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<li><span style="font-family:Wingdings"><span style=""><span style=""></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 style=""></span></span>
</li><li><span style="font-family:Wingdings"><span style=""><span style=""></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Willful violations of FS 617 regarding members request for information</span>
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<li><span style="font-family:Calibri">Acknowledged receipt of this by President Kassis</span><span style="font-family:Wingdings"><span style=""></span></span>
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</li><li><span style="font-family:Wingdings"><span style=""><span style=""></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 style=""> </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 style=""></span></span>
</li><li><span style="font-family:Wingdings"><span style=""><span style=""></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Inventing new coordination polices on the fly without approval of the board</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">The FRC must be reformed if it wishes to keep its legitimacy.<span style="">
</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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><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 style="">
</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 style="">
</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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><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.
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<span style="font-family:Wingdings">My plan to get us on the right track is:<br>
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<li><span style="font-family:Wingdings"><span style=""><span style=""></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>
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<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>
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</li><li><span style="font-family:Calibri">Demand new elections for existing directors in compliance with the bylaws.</span><span style="font-family:Wingdings"><span style=""></span></span>
</li><li><span style="font-family:Wingdings"><span style=""><span style=""></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 style=""></span></span>
</li><li><span style="font-family:Wingdings"><span style=""><span style=""></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 style=""></span></span>
</li><li><span style="font-family:Wingdings"><span style=""><span style=""></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 style=""></span></span>
</li><li><span style="font-family:Wingdings"><span style=""><span style=""></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 style=""></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 style=""> </span></span><span style="font-family:Wingdings"><span style=""></span></span>
</li><li><span style="font-family:Wingdings"><span style=""><span style=""></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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">I will make a motion to accomplish this at the next meeting at the Melbourne Hamfest meeting.<span style="">
</span>To make this happen, I am asking for your proxy, if you’re a member of the FRC.<span style="">
</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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><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 style="">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">I fully expect to be shouted down by the board, but as members we cannot be ignored.<span style="">
</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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">I need your proxy by the Friday, October 7, 2016.<span style="">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">73’s and see you at Melbourne,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri">Bryan Fields, W9CR</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri">P.S. Please feel free to 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
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