[HCARC] Need help understing Repeater option comments by DennisKF5STP and Harvey K5HV

[John K5XA]

My two cents worth:

Before I retired I ran large IT & Network Communications departments. Any
time I started seeing my folks getting involved in email exchanges (with
tons of cc's - many to those that didn't even understand the subject), I
would get up and go see them, and demand that they cease with the email
diatribe, and sit down with the actual users involved, elicit a case for
hopeful understanding, and then steer the subject through the prescribed
process.

It is obvious that, in this case, there is a prescribed process.

My suggestion - let the Executive Committee analyze the potential project,
decide the feasibility - pro and con, cost, and implementation requirements,
and then make a presentation to the membership at a meeting, with their
recommendations of a go or no go, and a suggested implementation team if the
recommendation is that the project should be undertaken.

This does not sound like an "easy call"

K5XA John Guida

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Bill
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 12:55 PM
To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCARC] Need help understing Repeater option comments by
DennisKF5STP and Harvey K5HV

As a new member, I don't expect to understand everything going on with our
repeater options, but this one is very important to the club, the Red Cross
and to the community and is really hard to understand.   Anyone willing to
explain?


Dennis,  KF5STP, wrote about an option: "We have a standing invitation to
install our repeater on the 400 foot KKER tower east of town....with greater
range, backup emergence power (That we now do not have) and at one half our
current cost....".

When I  read this, I wondered why it had not already been done. On the
surface, this looks like an easy call.  However, there must be more to it..


It appears that this seemingly better option should not be discussed in an
open meeting, with the entire membership discussing and considering the
option. Instead, it should be be brought up in an Executive Committee
meeting and then sent back for engineering considerations and planning.   

I have had extensive experience in business management and have served on
many Boards of Directors, but this one is very hard  to understand.  (The
committee/study consideration approach is on I have used many times to bury
stuff.)


Bet I'm not the only one who does not understand this.  Would someone please
explain this to us ?

Bill
KF5VMY








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