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Subject: TSARC Repeater Coordination Suspension
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Date: Sat, 2-Feb-85 23:09:24 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  2 23:09:24 1985
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 #: 26740      Sub-topic 4 - TRN & Freq Coord.
Sb: TSARC SUSPENDS...
    01-Feb-85  20:25:54
Fm: NORM W2JUP 74055,140
To: ALL
   At 12:01 AM this morning, February 1st, TSARC (Tri-State Amateur
Repeater Council) temporarily suspended their repeater frequency
coordinating activities for the next nine months....
   At an emergency meeting called by TSARC president Steve
Mendlesohn, WA2DHF, TSARC executive board directors heard excerpts
from the contents of a new FCC NPRM (Notice of Proposed Rulemaking)
that hits the streets and becomes effective today.
   The FCC's NPRM addresses the subject of repeater frequency
coordination, and calls for comments and opinions on proposed
rulemaking that seeks to create a volunteer national "umbrella-type"
coordination agency, similar to the NARTB, NABR, and other
industry-based organizations of class.  The "umbrella" agency would
assist the activities of regional coordination councils on a
nationwide basis, and hold a national database of all amateur
repeaters.  The same agency would establish and publish rules of
procedures and technical standards for the coordination of new
amateur repeaters.
   As part of the NPRM, the FCC's Enforcement Bureau requested a
nation-wide nine-month suspension of repeater coordination, as a
measure needed to gain the time required for gathering comment,
acquiring an updated and validated national repeater coordination
database, and setting up the mechanisms for accomplishing the tasks.
   In addition to the establishment of a national coordination
scheme, the NPRM would change the wording of the Commission's Rules
in Part 97.85(h) to codify and assign responsibility for the
solution of repeater interference problems.
   What this means in plain English:  no new repeaters will be
coordinated in the 25 CMSAs (Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical
Areas) for at least nine months.  The local frequency coordination
councils will have to suspend coordinations pending the new
rulemaking.