[MRIC] Meeting Minutes for January 24, 2009

[brettham at aol.com]

All:

Please find below the meeting minutes of our MRIC meeting this past 
weekend. Please review them for corrections and bring your comments to 
the next meeting.

Pat, Please let me know if you want me to add any text to the HF test 
results section. Thank you.

Brett Hammond
Chairman, MRIC

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Maryland RACES Interoperability Committee (MRIC) Meeting Minutes for 
January 24, 2009:


Fred Bader hosted the meeting at the Montgomery County EOC in a 
training room that was a perfect facility for our needs. Thank you Fred.

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ATTENDANCE:
The meeting was called to order at 10:35 AM. The following RACES 
Officers (or their representative) were in attendance:

Allegany - Bill Tucker
Anne Arundel - Frank Winner
Baltimore County - Joe Krystoforski
Baltimore City - Paul Kidd
Caroline -
Carroll -
Calvert - Leslie Dickey
Cecil -
Charles -
Dorchester -
Frederick - Jim Devilbiss
Garrett -
Harford - Pat Scolla
Howard - Dan Wilt (for Dave Prestel)
Kent - Bob Lovell
MEMA - Hank Blac and Al FitzSimons
Montgomery - Fred Bader
Ocean City
Prince George’s
Queen Anne’s - Mike Widdekind (for Chuck Hodell)
Somerset -
St. Mary’s -
Talbot - Brett Hammond
Washington - Bob Long
Wicomico -

Guests - Ben Acton (ARO Mont), Bill Clark (ARO Kent), Hank Black (MEMA).

The jurisdictions listed above with no name, did n
ot send a 
representative.

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AGENDA:
A motion was made by Bob Lovell to approve the following Agenda as 
distributed earlier this week. Seconded by Bob Long. Motion passed by 
unanimous consent without objection.

- Welcome
- Attendance
- Review Agenda
- Approval of Minutes
- Update MD RO Contact List
- New 80 meter net frequency (Dan Blasberg)
- Winlink Frequency List (Ray Brown)
- Update MD RACES Freq list
- Publishing RACES Contact info? (Chuck Hodell)
- MRIC Winlink Tech Support contact procedures (Dan Blasberg and Bill 
Clark)
- Discussion on HF Net test results/schedule
- Lunch
- Appendix A
- 2009 MRIC Interoperability Exercises
- Existing Winlink configurations in MD (Dan Blasberg)
- Existing non-Winlink communications (Pat Scolla)
- Next Meeting Agenda
- Adjourn
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Approve Minutes:
A motion was made by Fred to approve the November 22 meeting minutes as 
distributed earlier this week. Seconded by Pat. Motion passed by 
unanimous consent without objection.
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Contact List:
The Maryland RACES Contact List was reviewed and updated. A motion was 
made by Frank to approve the RO Contact info, seconded by Bob Lovell. 
It was approved without objection by unanimous consent. A copy will be 
emailed to the MRIC email reflector after the meeting.
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80 Met
er Freq:
The 80 meter net frequency was briefly discussed and postponed until 
the next meeting when Dan Blasburg can make his presentation.
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Winlink Freq:
The discussion on Winlink frequencies was postponed until the next 
meeting with Ray Brown can attend.
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Freq List:
The Maryland RACES Frequency coordination list was updated several 
times throughout the meeting and was approved without objection by 
unanimous consent. There were several changes made at this meeting, and 
all changes are noted in the log at the beginning of the document. The 
approved list will be forwarded to the MRIC email reflector after the 
meeting.

Brett also reported on the email received by the T-MARC Chairman Dave 
Prestel in response to the MRIC letter sent in November requesting 
T-MARC preserve all currently designated simplex frequencies in 
Maryland. There is some contradiction between the letter and T-MARC web 
site which T-MARC will address in a future letter to MRIC, but arequest 
was made that the current preliminary letter be distributed to all MRIC 
members. Brett agreed to forward it to the MRIC reflector.
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RO Contact Info:
The discussion on how much RACES Officer contact information we want to 
make public was put off until the next meeting. There was concern 
expressed that EOC address and phone numbers be kept confidentia
l. No 
decision yet if we want to make some or all of our frequencies public.
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Web Site:
There was some discussion about a volunteer from Kent County that may 
be willing to create an MRIC web site for us so we can publish our 
interoperability standards on the Internet (excluding confidential 
information). In the mean time, Fred will distribute the yahoo site 
information for document sharing. We will continue to use the same MRIC 
email reflector until further notice.
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Tech Support:
Bill Clark mentioned that along with the web site, they were looking 
into providing an email reflector for MRIC Winlink technical support 
questions, where emails would be forwarded to all the volunteers 
willing to provide Winlink assistance to other ROs.
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HF Net Test Results:
There was some discussion about continuing the MRIC HF Voice Net 
testing. Pat agreed to continue to be net control for testing every 
Saturday before the normal monthly MEMA RACES COMMEX from now until our 
next MRIC meeting. This means HF tests will be conducted at 10:00, 
14:00 and 18:00 on Saturday:
February 7, 2009
March 7, 2009
April 11, 2009
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Appendix A:
The sections of Appendix A relating to HF Winlink and VHF/UHF voice 
nets were reviewed and approved. The part of Appendix A regarding HF 
=0
AVoice was not reviewed due to time constraints. This means we now have 
an MRIC recommended equipment list for Winlink2000 email, and VHF/UHF 
voice equipment that may be used in order to meet our approved 
interoperability standards.

A motion was made by Bob Long to accept Appendix A with edits, 
excluding HF voice section. Seconded by Frank Winner.

The motion passed unanimously by roll-call vote of the members still 
present at the time:

yes - Allegany - Bill Tucker
yes - Anne Arundel - Frank Winner
yes - Baltimore City - Paul Kidd
yes - Calvert - Leslie Dickey
yes - Howard - Dan Wilt (for Dave Prestel)
yes - Kent - Bob Lovell
yes - MEMA - Al FitzSimons
yes - Montgomery - Fred Bader
yes - Queen Anne’s - Mike Widdekind (for Chuck Hodell)
yes - Talbot - Brett Hammond
yes - Washington - Bob Long
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A motion to adjourn was made by Bob Lovell, seconded by Bob long, and 
approved by unanimous consent at 15:05.
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