[LeArc] Fw: Followup

[sharon sample]

Dear Amateur Radio Club family:

You should be aware of the seriousness of this situation and ramifications of 
our current tower site. WIUM is pursuing emergency funding to replace their 
failing tower from the federal goevernment. 


We only have 15 dues paying members, thus can not sustain if a lease is imposed, 
let alone staggering fees pertaining to moving our antennae. We were never 
expected to pay for providing public service in the past, nor should we in the 
future. Start thinking about what you would do without a club or repeater site 
in this immediate area. Be ever cognisant of what the history of this club is 
and the crucial services provided by people like Chuck Gill, Joe Rossmiller, 
Gary Adams, Bud Keithly, Rolla Hightower, Jay Hainline, Rich Sample, Walter 
family, just to name a few. Not only would we let them down, should this club 
meet its demise, we would be letting this entire region and future area amateurs 
down!

Currently, Dan Kreps is drafting a letter of support. However, we need fire 
departments and other emergency entities to compose letters of support on our 
behalf. The letters need to be sent to:

Dorie Vallillo 
Project Director General Manager 
Tri States Public Radio
500 University Services Building
1 University Circle | Macomb, IL 61455-1390

AND to:

Jerry Walter
Club Sectretary
Lamoine Amateur Radio Club
1224 Maple Avenue Macomb, IL 61455

Please read the correspondence below my signature to better understand the 
situation involving the current tower site.

Sincerely,
Sharon N9RMF




----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Mark A Garrett <MA-Garrett at wiu.edu>
To: sharon sample <samplesail at yahoo.com>
Sent: Thu, December 16, 2010 3:26:21 PM
Subject: Followup


Sharon:

I had a chance to discuss the situation of the new tower with Dorie and LEARC's 
inclusion to the tower.  


Her biggest concern is having documentation on everything on the new tower so 
there is no running around and guessing what is what if any of us are no longer 
here.  She was very much in favor of receiving letters of support for LEARC to 
be on the tower and to demonstrate LEARC's importance and impact on the 
community.  She would like to possibly use some of these letters in the 
justification for emergency funding for the tower but we need those NOW as we 
are putting together the request for emergency funding NOW.

The club should be aware that any transfer of antennas that the feedline is not 
going to reach to the current levels on the new tower unless an extension is 
added to make it work as the new tower may be as much as 100 feet away from our 
current tower.  I see this distance much less but at this point that should be 
the maximum.  It is still too early to discuss costs involved with labor to move 
but we will try and lump it in with all of the other item to be moved that are 
to the stations but it may still end up in LEARC's  lap to cover those costs and 
the club should be fully aware and prepared to do so when the time comes.  


And last but not least as part of the paperwork in moving the antennas to the 
new tower, LEARC will be coming under a lease.  Dorie has submitted to me the 
lease we had with the National Weather Service and I am using that model to come 
up with something that would be suitable to both the University and to LEARC and 
will be working on the wording over the next couple of weeks.  

.



Mark Garrett
Tri States Public Radio
WIUM Macomb, IL
WIUW Warsaw, IL
(309) 298-1104 office
(309) 255-6987 cell
(309) 298-2133 fax