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Member comment period - 444.075_KC7Z_Bremerton_5685
Rob Salsgiver
The KC7Z 444.075 repeater has passed a Board vote and is now submitted for the required 14 day member comment period. If no negative comments are received by 9/6/21 the KC7Z system will receive it's coordination.
Rob Salsgiver - NR3O 2m/70cm Band Chair
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Member comment period - 440.9625_K7SOA_Megler_5761
Rob Salsgiver
The K7SOA 440.9625 repeater has passed a Board vote and is now submitted for the required 14 day member comment period. If no negative comments are received by 9/6/21 the K7SOA system will receive it's coordination.
Rob Salsgiver - NR3O 2m/70cm Band Chair
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Member comment period - 442.300_W7BFD_Bellingham_5759
Rob Salsgiver
The W7BFD 442.300 repeater has passed a Board vote and is now submitted for the required 14 day member comment period. If no negative comments are received by 9/6/21 the W7BFD system will receive it's coordination.
Rob Salsgiver - NR3O 2m/70cm Band Chair
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Re: Member comment period - 444.900_NN7D_GigHarbor_5758_20201124
Rob Salsgiver
Details. Time flies when you’re having fun….
Thanks Kenny.
Rob
From: wwara@groups.io <wwara@groups.io> On Behalf Of Kenny Richards
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2021 8:50 PM To: wwara@groups.io Subject: Re: [wwara] Member comment period - 444.900_NN7D_GigHarbor_5758_20201124
I think Rob meant if no negative comments are received by 8/30/21, the coordination will be granted. (16+14=30)
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Re: Member comment period - 444.900_NN7D_GigHarbor_5758_20201124
Randy Neals
This is a positive comment in support of the allocation for NN7D repeater. I understand the repeater will be used by Gig Harbor area amateurs in support of their community emergency preparedness etc. It's great to see low level repeaters being deployed and used for emcomm as it enables greater frequency reuse across Western Washington than if we put all our repeaters on the highest mountains. Randy W3RWN Burien, WA (Trustee of W7BUR - low level emcomm repeater)
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 8:18 PM Rob Salsgiver <rob@...> wrote: The NN7D 444.900 repeater has passed a Board vote and is now submitted for the required 14 day member comment period. If no negative comments are received by 8/23/21 the NN7D system will receive it's coordination.
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Re: Member comment period - 444.900_NN7D_GigHarbor_5758_20201124
I think Rob meant if no negative comments are received by 8/30/21, the coordination will be granted. (16+14=30)
Thanks Kenny
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Member comment period - 444.900_NN7D_GigHarbor_5758_20201124
Rob Salsgiver
The NN7D 444.900 repeater has passed a Board vote and is now submitted for the required 14 day member comment period. If no negative comments are received by 8/23/21 the NN7D system will receive it's coordination.
Rob Salsgiver - NR3O 2m/70cm Band Chair
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Re: HAM WAN, WWARA conversation coordination
Larry,
I'm glad we were able to bring up and we cover the topic last night. As I said, it was already on the agenda and was a planned activity. You actually caught me off guard by proposing it again, so I assumed you wanted something different than what was planned. (for future reference dropping me a note ahead of the meeting on your request would have made this easier) As for the next steps, while we can certainly expedite creating coordination for the 5cm band, we still need to follow the policies of the WWARA. I also want to make sure what we do is going to help the situation and not make things worst. I'm sure you understand this kind of activity takes time and while it is great to ask the Board to take action, we are all volunteers with lives. I also want to be sure that when discussing this, we are working with HamWAN, I know Bart is leading this effort, but he isn't 'HamWAN'. There is a complete leadership team behind the group, just like there is for WWARA. Thanks Kenny
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HAM WAN, WWARA conversation coordination
Larry Watkinson
First allow me to thank the group for hearing me last night. At first I felt like more important people were going to be recognized as the topic owner and then Kenny monologued the issues and actually quite well even though when I first brought the idea up as something I wanted to talk about I felt brushed off as not being worthy of this group.
I am so glad Randy was inside of my head and went where I wanted to go based on the RCW requiring coordination in order to be on DNR sites, thanks Randy. I was heading down this path but was holding back not wanting to have all the answers as once it became clear, I was hoping others would see where we needed to go as a coordinating body.
Now I further suggest that the Board of Directors take action to coordinate with Bart the frequencies he is using now on the air and we expedite coordination and build the plan around what he has already on the air and then build other uses of the band to fit as well. By expediting coordination I believe one hurdle can be overcome which assures that these are Ham related. Please do not turn this effort into a burecratic stall.
Although this is a coordination body, building a relationship with DNR and providing them a list of coordinated repeaters in full would allow them to inventory rogue repeaters which denigrates our credibility. The cost to Hams is too great to not self-police ourselves and get along with DNR as the price for other sites will kill the affordability Of having repeaters on the air, this seems like a no brainer to me.
Might I also suggest, that new blood in a group when asked to be active be equally heard as I believe collectively we got there last evening once it was determined that Rob was not present.
Respectfully
Larry Watkinson KC7CKO
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Re: Website Update - PayPal Membership Link
Kenny Richards
Fixed - This is the problem with having multiple places on the site with almost the same information. I removed all the old details about signing up from the 'Fees' page and provided a link to the new Membership page (with the PayPal link). Thanks for catching and pointing this out, I missed it when making the new page. 73, Kenny, KU7M
On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 7:44 PM Scott Honaker <scott.n7ss@...> wrote:
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Re: Microwave Link Coordination
Randy, Kenny, KU7M
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Microwave Link Coordination
The explosion of WiFi device availability, and the availability of Wireless Internet Service Provider equipment has opened up our Microwave bands, but particularly the 13cm, 5cm, 3cm, and 1.2cm Amateur Bands. There is merit in having a coordination body record and document these fixed location links, particularly as we use wide bandwidth modulation (5MHz, 10MHz, 20 MHz) and have a growing number of these links, which may lead to greater chance of interference. I would like to propose that the topic of Amateur Microwave Band Link Frequency Coordination be added to a future WWARA meeting agenda, and that we consider the application of WWARA's existing coordination policy on fixed station links, including multipoint sectors that support multiple remote fixed sites. Effectively, we still do repeater site linking, but it's become digital, and moved to microwave bands. Frequency coordination would allow for greater success in having multiple parties build microwave backbones between fixed sites, and to serve fixed location amateur stations.
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Re: Website Update - PayPal Membership Link
Good question. You can find it under Process-Membership Dues https://www.wwara.org/coordination-process/membership/
Thanks!
Scott N7SS
From: wwara@groups.io <wwara@groups.io> On Behalf Of Jamie H
Sent: Saturday, May 8, 2021 7:24 PM To: wwara@groups.io Subject: [wwara] Website Update - PayPal Membership Link
Good Evening,
During the meeting, there was mention of a PayPal link to allow members to submit the membership fee. When browsing the Fees section, it only shows a link to the address which then errors to a 404 Page Not Found.
Thanks,
73,
Jamie Hughes WA7JH Phone: (360) 340-8886
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Website Update - PayPal Membership Link
Good Evening,
During the meeting, there was mention of a PayPal link to allow members to submit the membership fee. When browsing the Fees section, it only shows a link to the address which then errors to a 404 Page Not Found.
Thanks,
73,
Jamie Hughes WA7JH Phone: (360) 340-8886
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General WWARA Meeting - Sat, 05/08/2021
#cal-notice
wwara@groups.io Calendar <noreply@...>
General WWARA Meeting When: Where: Organizer: Description:
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General WWARA Meeting - Sat, 05/08/2021 7:00pm-9:00pm
#cal-reminder
wwara@groups.io Calendar <wwara@...>
Reminder: General WWARA Meeting When: Saturday, 8 May 2021, 7:00pm to 9:00pm, (GMT-07:00) America/Los Angeles Where:Zoom Meeting - Details to Follow Organizer: Kenneth Richards kenny@... Description: Q2 WWARA General Membership Meeting
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Re: Repeater Narrow Banding
If it would help some repeater operators to make the transition, you could submit a grant proposal for some funding. I know the Utah VHF Society had a practice of using society funds to upgrade repeaters (I don't know if it still does) as they made changes like going to 20 KHz bandwidth or if a duplexer or similar was needed.
On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 11:10 AM Kenny Richards <kenny@...> wrote:
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John D. Hays Kingston, WA K7VE / WRJT-215
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Re: Repeater Narrow Banding
Rowland,
You ask what probably seems like a simple question, but is actually complicated to provide a simple answer to right now. The biggest issue is that right now there is only a high level proposal, with a made up timeline to kickstart a discussion around narrowbanding with the repeater community in Washington. Having these discussions and getting feedback is why the WWARA has been doing talks to interested clubs for the last 12-18 months.
I really recommend reading the narrowband whitepaper linked from the WWARA website and I'd be happy to have further discussions with your group and give the presentation. But to answer your question, assuming the proposal outlined in the document is put into effect immediately, repeaters that were not using a narrowband mode in 15 years from now wouldn't be coordinated. 73, Kenny, KU7M
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Repeater Narrow Banding
Does this mean that all repeaters will have to be setup for narrow banding? What of those whose equipment does not have that capability?
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Re: General Membership WWARA Meeting - May 8th, 2021 (Zoom Call Info)
Jerry Gaule <ccaisradio@...>
Thanks for letting me know sincerely Gerald Gaule ke7ggv pio for region 4/asm for western Washington arrl
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