[ECAC] Draft letter to NTS national staff

[Jeff Ryan]

Dave: 

My thoughts are that the ECAC completed its duties. It submitted a report to the board/PSC and the committee was discharged with thanks. Any further activity in the name of the ECAC is inappropriate since it no longer exists. Creating a document in the name of the "former ECAC" is akin to submitting an edict from a deposed king.... it carries no standing and makes the deposed king appear desperate in my humble opinion.. 

The "response" by the NTS officials to the ECAC report is their business. The PSC, as a committee can accept it or not as they see fit and the former ECAC should remain silent. Our submitted report speaks for us and is our final report. And final means "final". We can not be concerned that some seek to poke holes or disagree with our report. We should not seek to "improve" or explain anything further. Doing so actually demeans the submitted report-- it's as if we believe it needs to be explained and/or defended. Its like two kids picking a fight on the playground--- the one that walks away from the fight (because it serves no purpose) is the winner. The one who speaks last is actually the loser.. 

I strongly urge the that we all resist the temptation to keep engaging in this argument. The higher ground is to remain silent. Our report is our final word on the subject. 

Respectfully, 

Jeff, K0RM 


----- Original Message -----

From: "Dave Colter" <dbcolter at myfairpoint.net> 
To: Ecac at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2014 7:14:11 AM 
Subject: [ECAC] Draft letter to NTS national staff 

Read this carefully and tell me what you think. 

Dave 



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Dear NTS National Staff, 



Thanks for taking the time to develop a more constructive and accurate 
response to ECAC's proposals. However, I believe you've missed a key point. 
Any comparison of ECAC's Joint Emergency Communications Committee (JECC) 
concept and NTS' expanded Field Organization is "apples and oranges." The 
two proposals have quite different goals and are thus more complementary 
than conflicting. 



While the NTS proposal is intended to solve NTS/ARES operational interface 
problems, this is not a primary goal for the JECC. Its proposed mission is 
to provide high level support to both programs and thus improve performance 
and interoperability across all groups and systems. The JECC is intended to 
foster high-level collaboration between both programs to develop best 
practices standards for ARES and training materials for both programs, and 
other functions that simply creating a parallel ARES operational structure 
to match NTS' cannot accomplish. A JECC might well deal with the operational 
issues by enabling a dialogue between leaders in both programs and 
developing joint recommendations, but that was simply one item on a much 
larger and more diverse list. 



Perhaps we should be supporting each other's proposals. If you carefully 
read the JECC proposal, I'm confident you will see there is a tremendous 
upside benefit to the future of both programs. We may still have practical 
or philosophical differences regarding some details, but I believe those can 
be worked out. Of course, I'm speaking only for myself here, but I'm sure 
other members of the former ECAC will concur. 



The alternative is that we continue to be at odds, which will create more 
confusion in the minds of board members and HQ staff. That will pretty much 
ensure that nothing is done, and we'll be right back where we started. None 
of us want that. Nothing less than the future of Amateur Radio is at stake. 



Regards, 

Dave Colter, WA1ZCN 

ASEC - Operations, Training 

State EOC Team 

NH-ARES 

www.nh-ares.org 

603-763-4976, option 1 



Ex-ARRL Emergency Communications Advisory Committee 

New England Division Representative & Vice Chairman 



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