Serving Indiana Amateurs Since 1971

Summer Online Meeting – 2026

We will hold our annual online meeting via Google Meet on Saturday, August 29th at 1300 EST.

Given the attendance at our last two on-line meetings, we’ve opted not to renew our Zoom license as a cost saving measure.  We’re going to give the Google Meet free tier a shot this year.

Link: https://meet.google.com/pyo-azuy-hzj

We look forward to your participation.

New online Membership Database

We’ve officially rolled out the online membership portal which will allow you to view your current status, update your contact info, etc.  I will be sending out a one-time password reset to each member’s on-file email, so look for that.

 

You can access it here: https://membership.ircinc.org/login

 

If you encounter any issues, please take a screenshot and email it to NF9K at chairman@ircinc.org, including as much detail as possible about what you were doing when the error occurred.

2026 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 2/7/2026.  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.

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.