<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div><span></span></div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475505586673_12750"> Please remove my email from you database.</div><div></div><div></div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1475505586673_12756">John Blaisdell - W4CJB<br clear="none"> Walton Co., NFL ARES EC <div id="yiv7050145351yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471567808819_5579"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv7050145351signature"></div><div class="yiv7050145351signature" id="yiv7050145351yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471567808819_5508"><a id="yiv7050145351yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471567808819_5515" href="https://www.facebook.com/WCFLARES" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect"><img width="100" height="100" id="yiv7050145351yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471567808819_5514" alt="" border="0" data-id="ad7851d0-ab8f-05a9-9f21-48b0641eef3c"></a></div></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> On Monday, October 3, 2016 8:17 AM, "mccrpt@tampabay.rr.com" <mccrpt@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv4499730026"><style type="text/css">#yiv4499730026 #yiv4499730026 -- P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}#yiv4499730026 </style><div dir="ltr">
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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 clear="none">
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<div id="yiv4499730026Signature">73, ron, n9ee/r a know code Extra<br clear="none">
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<div>Ron Wright, N9EE/R
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<div>mccrpt@tampabay.rr.com</div>
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<div id="yiv4499730026divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt;"><b>From:</b> FRC-Info <frc-info-bounces@lists.keekles.org> on behalf of Bryan Fields <Bryan@bryanfields.net><br clear="none">
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 2, 2016 10:22 PM<br clear="none">
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<b>Subject:</b> [FRC] Florida Repeater Council Information</font>
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</div></div><div><div class="yiv4499730026MsoNoSpacing">Greetings and welcome to the Florida Repeater Discussion List,</div>
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<div class="yiv4499730026MsoNoSpacing">I am Bryan Fields, W9CR.<span> </span></div>
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<div class="yiv4499730026MsoNoSpacing">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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<div class="yiv4499730026MsoNoSpacing">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.
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<div class="yiv4499730026MsoNormal"><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>
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<div class="yiv4499730026MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">It has failed in its ability to coordinate operations of amateur radio repeaters in the following ways:</span></div>
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<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>
<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>
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</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 clear="none">
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</li><li><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Length of the coordination process is unacceptable!
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<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 clear="none">
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<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>
<ul><li><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Acknowledged receipt of this by President Kassis</span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;"><span></span></span>
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</li><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>
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<div class="yiv4499730026MsoNormal"><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>
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<div class="yiv4499730026MsoNormal"><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>
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<div class="yiv4499730026MsoNormal"><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 clear="none">
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<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>
<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>
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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></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>
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<div class="yiv4499730026MsoNormal"><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>
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<div class="yiv4499730026MsoNormal"><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>
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<div class="yiv4499730026MsoNormal"><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>
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<div class="yiv4499730026MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">I need your proxy by the Friday, October 7, 2016.<span>
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<div class="yiv4499730026MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">73’s and see you at Melbourne,</span></div>
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<div class="yiv4499730026MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri">Bryan Fields, W9CR</font></div>
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<div class="yiv4499730026MsoNormal"><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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