[RVRC] FW: W2FLA Repeater

[drew Moore]

From: Tom Ray - W2TRR [mailto:tom.ray at unyrepco.org] 
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 3:13 PM
To: w2qw at w2qw.org
Subject: Fwd: W2FLA Repeater

 

 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tom Ray - W2TRR <tom.ray at unyrepco.org>
Date: Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:12 PM
Subject: W2FLA Repeater
To: w2qw at w2qw.com, kb2vrm at gmail.com, w2udt at arrl.net
Cc: sherman at w2fla.com, kq2h at yahoo.com, Captainlance
<captainlance at optonline.net>, secretary at unyrepco.org


UNYREPCO, Inc.

PO Box 858

Vails Gate, NY  12584

email: president at unyrepco.org

 

February 17, 2012

 

Mr. Michael Christiansen, President

Raritan Valley Radio Club

111 Preston Drive

Gillette, NJ 07933

 

cc: Mr. William Hudzik, Trustee, W2QW

 

Mr. Christiansen:

 

I am in receipt of your letter to Mr. Sherman Liefer, trustee of repeater
W2FLA dated February 8, 2012.

 

First and foremost, I believe you are quite mistaken if you think that
UNYREPCO no longer exists.  In fact, we have been actively coordinating
repeaters and in fact have several cross coordinations in the works at this
point in time.  While it is true that UNYREPCO has been somewhat inactive
over the past several years, an election was held in September where I was
elected President of the organization.  Since that time, we have been
actively working on clearing up the mess that has been UNYREPCO during this
time.

 

As such, you are hereby informed that the W2FLA repeater coordination is
alive and well.  UNYREPCO had never folded as an organization - it had been
somewhat stagnant, but the organization has and remains in operation - and
the coordination held by W2FLA, coordination number 2006-R019 dated October
14, 2006, is indeed valid.  

 

I will refer back to 97.205(c) of the Commissions rules:

 

"(c) Where the transmissions of a repeater cause harmful interference to
another repeater, the two station licensees are equally and fully
responsible for resolving the interference unless the operation of one
station is recommended by a frequency coordinator and the operation of the
other station is not. In that case, the licensee of the noncoordinated
repeater has primary responsibility to resolve the interference."

 

Seeing as this repeater is, in fact, coordinated, the last line, "the
licensee of the noncoordinated repeater has primary responsibility to
resolve the interference." does not apply in this instance.

 

Mr. Liefer has had a major family problem and I have been corresponding with
Alex Muzyka.  He has not indicated that there have been any changes in the
repeater as coordinated through UNYREPCO.  That being said, Alex is copied
on this note, and I ask that he confirm this by clicking "REPLY ALL".
Please know that if the repeater is not operating as stated in the NOTICE OF
COORDINATION referenced above, then it becomes necessary to re-coordinate
the repeater (ie, if there have been changes in the geographic location,
ERP, or antenna height above ground, which would be considered major
changes).

 

I am, however, confused by your letter.  The next to last paragraph states, 

 

"The Raritan Valley Radio Club kindly requests you to investigate what has
changed in the

operation of the repeater to cause this interference on the input frequency
and to

notify us of what steps are being taken to mitigate the interference as
quickly as

possible."

 

The W2FLA repeater, as coordinated, is not transmitting on your input
frequency of 146.025 MHz.  Is this where you are experiencing the problem,
as you have stated above?  If it is, what is the logic behind stating that
W2FLA is causing a problem on your input frequency?  Additionally, you have
offered no geographic boundaries where this problem is occurring.  Since the
W2FLA repeater is not transmitting on your input frequency, I do not
understand why they would be in violation and need to "mitigate the
interference as quickly as possible."  If the problem is occurring on your
input frequency as you have stated, it would seem to me that it is being
caused either by an uncoordinated repeater that someone has put up (which
may also be causing problems with the W2FLA repeater), or by person(s)
utilizing your input frequency for some other purpose.  In neither of these
cases is W2FLA responsible for interference to your input frequency.

 

I respectfully request that you clarify your statements as to the
interference you are experiencing between the Raritan Valley repeater and
the W2FLA repeater and work with Mr. Muzyka and Mr. Liefer such that all
parties are on the same page here.  If, in fact, you are experiencing
interference on your INPUT frequency, that, to me, does not seem to be the
problem of the W2FLA repeater trustees, as it is not transmitting on your
input frequency.  

 

-- 
Tom Ray - W2TRR

President

UNYREPCO, Inc.

 





 

-- 
Tom Ray - W2TRR

President

UNYREPCO, Inc.