TASMA
Two Meter Area Spectrum Management Association
358 South Main Street, PMB 90
Orange, CA 92868-3834
Minutes of the Technical Committee Meeting of January 16, 2001

An informal non-business Technical Committee meeting was held last Tuesday at JPL's Von Karman Auditorium. In addition to Burt Weiner K6OQK, our prospective Technical Committee chairman, myself & Matt Lechliter KE6QQV, TASMA board members Jim Fortney K6IYK & Pat Finke KC6ACL attended along with several other interested TASMA members. Since no official business was conducted, the meeting was run in a "free flow" format, with minimal management of discussion. While this proved to be a bit chaotic at first, the meeting quickly transitioned into a good brainstorming session primarily covering the issue of how to formalize the tasks required of the Technical Committee in order for TASMA to execute its mission of 2-meter spectrum management and frequency coordination in a fair manner that is easilyunderstood by the amateur community.

As a result, the proposed Technical Committee will now work on revising a document that can be found at http://www.tasma.org/interf/rfc-05.pdf. This document is titled "Request for Coordination Procedure". It's our intent to revise & extend this document in order to make it a sort of "constitution" for the Technical Committee. With this in place, the subjective way in which the Technical Committee is currently allowed to operate will be eliminated. I invite you all to look at the existing procedure & submit comments to no6b@rptrlist.w6jpl.ampr.org. Again, much "hacking" & adding will probably be needed to produce a document that the Technical Committee can actually operate under & is acceptable to the general membership. This is quite an undertaking, especially for the start of the year when we're still trying to complete the transition from the previous Technical Committee. However, it's all part of a process that will result in TASMA gaining much more respect & recognition as a frequency coordinator & spectrum manager not just in Southern California, but across the entire nation as well.

Bob Dengler NO6B
your TASMA Chairman