This page contains a summary of recent items of interest in NARCC. Election Results
April 21, 2007 The results of the election at the Annual Membership Meeting were:
New Board Members:
Sue Allred (KI6CAO) Tim Barrett (K6BIV)
Re-elected Board Members:
Joel Nadler (NN6J) Roy Moline (K6MF) Art Mayoff (AB6HB)
At the Board Meeting afterward, the following officers were selected:
President: Bob Lanning (W6OPO) Vice President: Len Pringle (KH8A) Secretary: Sue Allred (KI6CAO) Treasurer: Dave Shaw (WB6WTM)
For a complete list of Officers and Coordinators, check the Officers and Coordinators List.
Potentially 105 70cm repeaters to be shutdown
April 17, 2007 The ARRL (www.arrl.org) has just posted a lead news item about the potential shutdown of 105 repeater stations in the Beale AFB PAVE PAWS radar footprint. Please read the entire article.
NARCC has and continues to cooperate with the league’s efforts to find ways to salvage some repeaters. I personally have talked to Dan Henderson N1ND Regulatory Specialist and exchanged many emails attempting to get clarification and context. For the league it has been somewhat frustrating because not a lot of information is coming from the USAF or FCC. But there is a glimmer of willingness on the Department of Defense side to see if a station can stay on the air given the interference is eliminated.
NARCC has been given a list of the 105 targeted stations. The purpose was to get the technical details of each station back to Ed Hare in the league’s lab where his staff is running Longley-Rice studies. The goal is to find recommendations for those stations that have a chance of being salvaged. Such changes might be power level, type of antenna etc.
Those on the list will be contacted by the ARRL if they have developed recommended changes. The ultimate order will come from the FCC. NARCC essentially has no role other than help the league with communication and data.
Please remember the league is trying to help reduce the impact of the Department of Defense’s intended action. Read what the league has to say. Dan N1ND is a good guy.
List:
The links provided
here are for the station list the Department of Defense gave to the FCC
to have shutdown or "mitigated". The also provided to the ARRL a copy.
The list is available sorted by call or location. You will see obvious
discrepancies with its contents never-the-less, this is the list. The
league continues their effort to learn how the list was created. Please
read the news item on the front page of
www.arrl.org before calling the league."
April membership meeting: Our next
general meeting will be Saturday, April 21, 2007 at the Contra Costa Water
District, 1331 Concord Ave, in
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