<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475465701789_2857"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475465701789_2856">Bryan,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475465701789_2858"><span></span><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475465701789_2860" dir="ltr"><span 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><div dir="ltr"><span></span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span>You are absolutely correct...</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span></span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span></span><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475465701789_2861" dir="ltr"><span>Leon K8ZAG</span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475465701789_2869" style="display: block;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475465701789_2868" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475465701789_2867" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Bryan Fields <Bryan@bryanfields.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> frc-info@lists.keekles.org <br> <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> [FRC] Florida Repeater Council Information<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475465701789_2866"><br><div id="yiv1760526750">
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<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475465701789_2870">Greetings and welcome to the Florida
Repeater Discussion List,</div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNoSpacing" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475465701789_2872"> </div>
<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>
<div>
<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>
<div>
<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 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">
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<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri">Bryan Fields, W9CR</font></div>
<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><br>
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<div class="yiv1760526750MsoNormal"><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 have any questions. </font><br>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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