The meetings are something I've not had a desire to be involved in, but it's our only option at this point.I'm pretty sure that I am not an FRC member, though not certain..as I have not had any form of "Minutes of meetings" in ages -if ever.
I've heard these stories as well and it was confirmed years ago in south Florida. I find sunlight to be the best disinfectant of such corruption.I had thought that the unusually slow processing speed was a "due diligence" effect , and a nuisance at best ..however I have heard of "Paper Repeaters" existing and even a story of certain frequencies/pairs being held from general use only to be "sold" to some well healed or politically influential entities.
I'm all for this, but we need to have an open database for this to work. There must be trust on both sides and a desire to solve problems. A policy development process has worked well in other organizations for this.How any of the above -if true- equates to the proper management of frequency assets worries me , and throws the otherwise best practices book into the Chipper.If your efforts would include an immediate sweep for DEAD WOOD and Paper machines ...count me in.
Malice and incompetence are shockingly hard to differentiate.If it was truly the best the current FRC could do, God bless them for the effort , but If stories of malice are true ..an intervention is clearly needed.However , I can't help thinking that previous performance of the FRC and the attrition of Hams capable of ginning up a repeater .,constitute a rapidly approaching drain.
I'm 31 and have been working to stem the tide of this. We have 5 newly licensed hams in the local area via our club and 4 best in region repeaters across 3 modes. The HamWAN deployment is coming along well in Tampa Bay.In my travels over the last few years , I have heard a shocking ebb in repeater activity ,and even the once friendly VHF Spx 146.52 is near desolate of travel companions.
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