<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div aria-label="Compose body">To Bryan Fields</div><div aria-label="Compose body">From Michael Wolf</div><div aria-label="Compose body">re: FRC </div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">I did not ask to be on the discussion group nor did I appreciate the emails.</div><div aria-label="Compose body">I do agree that the things might need to be improved<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> with the FRC however</span></div><div aria-label="Compose body"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">i DO NOT wish to recieve any more emails. Please REMOVE me from this </span></div><div aria-label="Compose body"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">disscussion group and please DO NOT .. I repeat DO NOT SEND ANY MORE </span></div><div aria-label="Compose body"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">EMAILS REGARDING THIS.</span></div><div aria-label="Compose body"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I will be up in Melbourne and will hopefully attend the FRC meeting.</span></div><div aria-label="Compose body"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thank you</span></div><div aria-label="Compose body"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div aria-label="Compose body"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div aria-label="Compose body"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Bryan Fields" <Bryan@bryanfields.net><br><b>To: </b>frc-info@lists.keekles.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, October 2, 2016 10:22:22 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[FRC] Florida Repeater Council Information<br><div><br></div><p><br></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">Greetings and welcome to the Florida Repeater Discussion List,</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">I am Bryan Fields, W9CR.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" data-mce-style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p><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.</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">Professionally I am a Network Architect with a major telecom company.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" data-mce-style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </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.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-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="mso-spacerun:yes" data-mce-style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am asking for your proxy for the upcoming FRC meeting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;">It has failed in its ability to coordinate operations of amateur radio repeaters in the following ways:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;" data-mce-style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times
              New Roman";" data-mce-style="font: 7pt 'Times
              New Roman';"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;">Publication of the FRC database on a public website</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></li><ul><li><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-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="mso-spacerun:yes" data-mce-style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>This is nothing but gross negligence on the part of Director Rodakis and Director Lavender.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" data-mce-style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span><span style="font-family:
            Wingdings;" data-mce-style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font:
                7pt "Times New Roman";" data-mce-style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-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;" data-mce-style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;"></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;" data-mce-style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times
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                New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-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;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;">Length of the coordination process is unacceptable! </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></li><ul><li><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;">As of this writing coordination applications post 1/25/2016 have not been processed.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" data-mce-style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal" data-mce-style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal" data-mce-style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">October</i></b>!</span><span style="font-family: Wingdings;" data-mce-style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;"></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;" data-mce-style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times
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                New Roman';"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-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;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;">Renewals have not been processed post 5/7/2016!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" data-mce-style="mso-spacerun: yes;">   </span>As most coordinations expire on 9/30/2016, this means no members may vote under the bylaws!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" data-mce-style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>This applies to the board as well.</span><br style="mso-special-character:line-break" data-mce-style="mso-special-character: line-break;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></li></ul></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;" data-mce-style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times
              New Roman";" data-mce-style="font: 7pt 'Times
              New Roman';"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;">Violation of the coordination policy by the directors</span><span style="font-family:
          Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;">Willful violation of the bylaws by the directors</span><span style="font-family: Wingdings;" data-mce-style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;"></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;" data-mce-style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times
              New Roman";" data-mce-style="font: 7pt 'Times
              New Roman';"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;">Willful violations of FS 617 regarding members request for information</span></li><ul><li><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;">Acknowledged receipt of this by President Kassis</span><span style="font-family: Wingdings;" data-mce-style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;"></span></span></li></ul><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;" data-mce-style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times
              New Roman";" data-mce-style="font: 7pt 'Times
              New Roman';"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-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="mso-spacerun:yes" data-mce-style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-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;" data-mce-style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;"></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;" data-mce-style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times
              New Roman";" data-mce-style="font: 7pt 'Times
              New Roman';"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;">Inventing new coordination polices on the fly without approval of the board</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;">The FRC must be reformed if it wishes to keep its legitimacy.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" data-mce-style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </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><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-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="mso-spacerun:yes" data-mce-style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </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="mso-spacerun:yes" data-mce-style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </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><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-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></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;
        text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2" data-mce-style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;" data-mce-style="font-family: Wingdings;">My plan to get us on the right track is:<br> </span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;" data-mce-style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times
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              New Roman';"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;">Remove the current directors for gross incompetency and exposing the organization to liability:</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></li><ul><li><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;">Ray Kassis, N4LEM</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;">Dana Rodakis, K4LK</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;">(Glenn) Mike Fletcher, NI4M</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;">Chuck Lavender, W4CLL</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></li></ul><li><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;">Demand new elections for existing directors in compliance with the bylaws.</span><span style="font-family: Wingdings;" data-mce-style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;"></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;" data-mce-style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times
              New Roman";" data-mce-style="font: 7pt 'Times
              New Roman';"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-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;" data-mce-style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;"></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;" data-mce-style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times
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              New Roman';"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;">Establish a development process for new policies from the membership</span><span style="font-family: Wingdings;" data-mce-style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;"></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;" data-mce-style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times
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              New Roman';"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;">Encourage input from the membership based on sound technical policies</span><span style="font-family: Wingdings;" data-mce-style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;"></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;" data-mce-style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times
              New Roman";" data-mce-style="font: 7pt 'Times
              New Roman';"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-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="mso-spacerun:yes" data-mce-style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;">No one person should be the gatekeeper of the database.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" data-mce-style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings;" data-mce-style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;"></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Wingdings;" data-mce-style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" data-mce-style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times
              New Roman";" data-mce-style="font: 7pt 'Times
              New Roman';"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-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><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;">I will make a motion to accomplish this at the next meeting at the Melbourne Hamfest meeting.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" data-mce-style="mso-spacerun: yes;">   </span>To make this happen, I am asking for your proxy, if you’re a member of the FRC.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" data-mce-style="mso-spacerun: yes;">   </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><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-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="mso-spacerun:yes" data-mce-style="mso-spacerun: yes;">    </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://florida-repeaters.org/donate.htm" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://florida-repeaters.org/donate.htm">http://florida-repeaters.org/donate.htm</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;">I fully expect to be shouted down by the board, but as members we cannot be ignored.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" data-mce-style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </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><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;">I need your proxy by the Friday, October 7, 2016.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" data-mce-style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;">73’s and see you at Melbourne,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Calibri;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><span face="Calibri" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;" style="font-family: Calibri;">  </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Calibri" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;" style="font-family: Calibri;">Bryan Fields, W9CR</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Calibri" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;" style="font-family: Calibri;"><br> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Calibri" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri;" style="font-family: 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 have any questions.  </span><br> <span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;
          mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span></p><br>_______________________________________________<br>FRC-Info mailing list<br>FRC-Info@lists.keekles.org<br>http://lists.keekles.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/frc-info<br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>