[KYHAM] Shelbyville 444.050 repeater

[Tim Osborne]

Hi Jim, it's good to see new repeaters on the air and operating. If we don't
utilize the bands that we have privileges on, the FCC will let someone else
do it for us.

I don't recall receiving an application for coordination for your repeater.
Stuff gets lost in the mail all the time and email has become a chore rather
than a very useful tool. If I have misplaced your application either in
paper or in electronic form, I apologize.

Of course, participation in a frequency coordination program is strictly
voluntary. No amateur radio frequency coordinator has any "authority" to
tell a repeater sponsor what he can, or cannot do.
However, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the amateur
community has recognized that participation in a frequency coordination
program by repeater sponsors is in the best interest of all amateurs.

Therefore, FCC rules (Part 97.205c) have been adopted which state that the
sponsor of an uncoordinated repeater bears the primary responsibility for
curing any interference between his repeater and another repeater which is
coordinated. Likewise, the sponsor of an uncoordinated machine cannot expect
much help from his area frequency coordinator.

With Indiana and Illinois coordinating 440 repeaters like they are going out
of style (over 50 last year) ,
there is a very high probability of an interference issue with a repeater
that is not coordinated nor in the SERA database, which we share with all
states that are adjacent to Kentucky.

If you would please submit your application for frequency coordination the
Kentucky SERA staff will process it as soon as possible and do everything we
can to help get your repeater coordinated and entered into our database.

The SouthEastern repeater Association, Inc. (SERA) is the recognized amateur
radio frequency coordinator for the state of Kentucky.  If you have any
questions feel free to contact me.  My contact info is below.

Thanks for your time.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Tim Osborne  K4TDO
SERA Vice Director for Kentucky
Coordinating West of Interstate 75
P.O. Box 381
Happy, KY 41746-0381
k4tdo at sera.org
www.sera.org

606.436.5757 Ext. 1275 Days
606.476.9540  Nights

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jhicks" <jhicks at cumberlandcollege.edu>
To: <kyham at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 19:17
Subject: [KYHAM] Shelbyville 444.050 repeater


> The Shelbyville KY repeater is on the air. It is currently just a stand
> alone repeater but should be linked soon into the Williamsburg repeater.
> Coverage appears excellent for the Shelbyville repeater. Signal reports
> indicate it is full scale in Lexington and should be hand held coverage
> in southern Indiana and Louisville. I encourage you to try the repeater
> and help us figure out what the typical coverage area is. If you try the
> repeater with send signal reports to me at this address or at
> wb4ctx at yahoo.com. The repeater ids itself with an S for the courtsey
> beep and the Williamsburg repeater ids itself with a W on the courtsey
> beep. When the system is up and running soon there should be coverage
> from southern Indiana to eastern Tennessee across I-64 and down I-75. I
> suspect the Shelbyville repeater will have excellent coverage toward
> Bowling Green and down I-65 as well. Let me know the signal reports and
> your transmitting power etc if you work it.
> Jim
> WB4CTX
>
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