Holiday Wishes & Notice of 2025 Meeting/Election of Officers

The staff of the IRC would like to wish our served amateurs, and neighboring coordination organizations, a very Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year.

The next meeting of The Indiana Repeater Council will be at the Hendricks County Hamfest, Saturday February 8, 2025 at the Hendricks County Fairgrounds Conference Center, 1900 E Main St., Danville, IN 46122. This meeting will include election of officers for the year 2025.

IRC 2024 Summer Business Meeting

The Indiana Repeater Council, Inc., will meet online via Zoom on Sunday, July 28th, at 1:00
pm EDT.

The officers will review IRC activity since November and address any questions or concerns. As this will be our first online meeting, please bare with us as we work through any difficulties. We will be sending the meeting URL via email to everyone in our database. We will also post the URL here on our website on meeting day. In the event that we need more time than allotted time in the free meeting, we may need to stand up a second meeting to follow the first.

MEETING LINK – CLICK HERE

See you there!

Address Change/PO Box Closure

As part of a money saving effort, it was decided at our November meeting to do away with our PO Box. As a result our mailing address has changed. Future address changes will occur when a new secretary-treasurer is elected. This inconvenience is minor compared to the yearly outlay for the PO Box.

NEW ADDRESS

Indiana Repeater Council Inc.

8575 N. County Rd. 650 E.

Brownsburg, IN. 46112-9298

You can always review updated information here: https://www.ircinc.org/?page_id=96.

Frequency Coordinator Appointments

Please welcome:

Patrick McDonnell, W3AXL
Paul Thieme, N9PCT

Both Patrick and Paul are RF Engineers by trade and we welcome both their expertise and time. Integration into operations will happen over the next several weeks, so look forward to working with them!

IRC 2023 Election Results

Due to the lack of any nominations via email, nominations were called for from the floor. Each member of the current elected staff was nominated for another term, beginning 1/1/2024. There were no further nominations. Thus the results were:

Chairman: Bill Atkinson, NF9K
Vice-Chairman: Bob Burns, AK9R
Secretary/Treasurer: Mike Sercer, WA9FDO

We thank you for your trust.

Frequencies Wanted!

On some Amateur bands in many areas, there are few if any frequencies available upon which a new repeater can be coordinated without causing harmful interference.

Sometimes we discover that we have a repeater coordinated that has been inoperative for some time, and will not be placed back on the air. These frequencies need to be made available for new repeaters.

It is important that repeater operators who have inoperative repeaters be considerate of their fellow Amateurs by releasing unused frequencies. Please be honest and realistic about the likelihood of your repeater being placed back into operation. I am sure that we could grant more coordination’s if we knew about every unused frequency out there.

We realize that circumstances occur that interrupts the continuous operation of a repeater. If a repeater experiences technical problems, the best way to protect the coordination is to let us know what is going on. If we are aware of the situation, we will hold your coordination valid for a reasonable time, to permit repair or replacement of components.

We have no desire to de-coordinate repeaters when the operator is making a good faith effort to restore operation.

We do, however need to identify and make available frequencies, which are not going to be utilized in the reasonable future.