Serving Indiana Amateurs Since 1971

2025 Officer Election Results

Officer Elections were held at our February meeting.  Nominations were called for from the floor.  Each member of the current elected staff was nominated for another term, beginning 2/8/2025.  There were no further nominations.  Thus the results were:

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

Again, we thank you for your trust.

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 Appointment

Please welcome:

  • Patrick McDonnell, W3AXL

Patrick is an RF Engineer by trade and we welcome his expertise and time.  Integration into operations will happen over the next several weeks, so look forward to working with him!

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.