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Please notice the September meeting is a physical meeting. |
Presidents Update: The annual meeting for MARC will be held on September 17, 2011 at 1:00 PM. The location is the Delta Township Fire Department at 811 N. Canal Rd, Lansing Michigan. Additional directions are located in this newsletter. MARC will be holding elections at the September meeting. The elective offices are: Vice President, Treasurer, and one board member. You may run for office if you are a MARC member at least one day before the meeting. A recent new Bylaw change provides for the following: the sponsor of a coordinated repeater may choose another licensed amateur, or amateur radio entity (such as an incorporated club) to maintain the coordination. This provision will allow a second sponsor to continue a repeater’s coordination upon the death or incapacitation of the sponsor. Please remember to add your backup sponsor, if you have one, to your next renewal TDS. If there is no second sponsor, the coordination will be dissolved and the frequency will be returned to the pool upon the death of a sponsor. (The sponsor holds the coordination, not the equipment owner or the trustee). MARC is not too far behind on coordinations at this time. If you have submitted a request and have not heard from MARC in over 30 days, please send an email to me and I will look into your application. w8ic@miarc.com So far, the digital repeaters seem to be working well using splinter frequencies. If you have any comments, good or bad, on the digital coordination efforts please send them to MARC at mail@miarc.com.
73, Phil, W8IC ----------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------- Database Manager's Corner
We have a number of TDS submissions that are overdue. In fact, over 23%
of the repeaters in our database have not been updated in two or more
year’s. So take a minute and check your entry in the MARC Repeater
Directory to see if it is time to update your records.
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MARC Has A New Mailing Address With the passing of Dennis, the P.O. Box that MARC has maintained in Mt. Clemens is no longer a good choice. The new address for USPS delivery is:
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MARC Officers | Appointed Positions |
President: Phil Manor W8IC | Frequency Coordinator 902MHz: & up Dan Thompson N8WKM |
Vice President: Dan Thompson N8WKM | Frequency Coordinator 440MHz: Fred Moses W8FSM |
Secretary: Ann Manor KT8F | Frequency Coordinator Links & Control: Phil Manor W8IC |
Treasurer: Dave Johnson WD8DJB | Database Manager: Dave Johnson WD8DJB |
Director: Fred Moses W8FSM | Newsletter Editor: Dan Thompson N8WKM |
Director: James Kvochick WB8AZP |