[K3CAL] Open letter to the board

[Eric Christensen]

Okay, this is my last email regarding this subject.

On 03/04/2016 03:54 PM, David Weaver wrote:
> So you are saying that the people I talked to on the radio this
> morning are lying.
> 
> Or you were talking during a meeting like you usually do and not
> paying attention.
> 
> I talked to Dave W3TOJ, Shawn N3AE and Jim K3UGA.
> 
> Maybe Ron have it in his minutes?

Why does someone have to by lying?  See my response to Dave as perhaps
that will clear things up.

> _Everything was documented and brought to the members and voted on 
> before It took place. Eric I hate to tell you this but it's not
> rocket science._
> 
> I'm sorry you don't understand repeaters and have to go back and
> try to document and understand how it works.

Oh I understand how repeaters work and have managed several
conventional and trunked repeaters systems in my life.  What I don't
understand is what you did to any of the equipment since it was installed.

> It's all you and Ed had to do was ASK. But no you're too smart for
> that. You had an agenda when you came in and you still have it. So
> I guess Bob and the previous board members did not have enough
> education to understand this. Is that what you're saying? I'll put
> my credentials up front I was a first responder at Ground Zero and
> I provided communications. Not a North Carolina hurricane.

Congratulations, you're a communicator.  Thank you for what you did.
I, too, was dealing with 9/11 stuff myself although I was behind
several layers of heavily-armed Marines at the time at Camp Lejeune
building communications systems.

>> Some of you may not know that we have frequencies allocated by T
>> Mark for our link system. If we do not use these frequencies by
>> putting them on the air by April we will lose them they go back
>> to T Mark to be reassigned.
> 
> Yes, you brought this to my attention last week and I acknowledged
> it. I suspect we wouldn't lose the frequencies from T-MARC since
> linking frequencies aren't in high demand and I also think that
> we'd be able to get an extension (much like we did for the 444.950
> repeater pair) or get a new assignment later if we can't get an
> extension
> 
> Yes you can get an extension but why? You have the talent in this
> club to get it working.
> 
> Obviously it's over your head but I can help you. (It's a team
> effort.)

No, this is not over my head.

>> I hear a lot of you complaining that you don't understand what's
>> going on you must stand up and say something.
> 
> From whom?  I sincerely wish to know since I have not been hearing
> these complaints and I would like to address any issues that
> members .
> 
> Well they have been complaining to you. You just make on fun of
> them looked the other way.
> 
> Charlie's off the calling tree because he doesn't meet your ideal
> ham radio operator.
> 
> He's always been welcome in this club and an ARES until now.

Charlie has never submitted an application for ARES or RACES
(confirmed with Bill at the last AUXCOMM leadership meeting).  I'm not
sure how one can be considered for membership if they never apply.

> Can you please show me a code of conduct for Ares or is this
> _Eric's code of conduct_.

How about we start with not communicating threats (a misdemeanor in
Maryland, by the way) toward other members of the club?

>> I'm not sure what you mean.  AFAIK, Bob has control of the 
>> board at k3cal.org <mailto:board at k3cal.org> email redirector so if
>> he's taken someone off that list I'm not aware of it.
> 
> I guess that's why you're sending emails back and forth without
> Bob knowing about them.

I'm not aware of any email I've been sending back and forth that Bob
was intentionally excluded from.  I've been using board at k3cal.org to
send messages to the Board.

> And making phone conference calls to the board to have meetings and
> Bob does not have a login.
> 
> Can you explain that. Or I guess we should not be concerned
> because you're so trustworthy.

The only phone conference call that I'm aware of was for the AUXCOMM
leadership that was made at the request of someone on the leadership
team.  We infrequently have a gathering of the EC, RO, and AECs to
talk about what we're working on and get updates on various projects
that are being worked on.  If the Board had a conference call I was
not aware of it and did not attend.

Since AUXCOMM is not a part of CARA (CARA sponsors the program) I'm
not sure why Bob or anyone else that's not part of the AUXCOMM
leadership team would have been invited.  This is not the first time
we've had such a meeting before.

> If you don't think you can reconcile that that may be you're not
> going to write direction.
> 
> But I'm sure you can't see that just think on it
> 
> God bless you. You needed.

Again, why all the negativity?  Why do you feel the need to continue
down this road instead of just stopping, turning around, and being a
part of the community?  An oar that's not moving is an anchor.

73,
Eric