Minutes
TASMA Board Meeting
Sunday, 16 March 2003
Mel’s Sewing Service
947 N. Euclid Street
Anaheim, CA 92801
These minutes were approved at the July 6, 2003, TASMA Board Meeting.
Mr. Joe Macera called the meeting to order on Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 1:05 p.m.
Mr. Brown made a motion to approve use of the new RFC form for all new and updated coordinations with the accompanied instruction. Ms. Finke seconded the motion. (3-0-0)
Mr. Macera feels that a Band Plan meeting or forum with the Band Plan Committee, which is open to anybody who is concerned about the Band Plan changes, is needed to discuss in details the proposed plan. One area of concern the Band Plan Committee was looking at was the need for IRLP, EchoLink and similar modes. Mr. Dengler may make a presentation on the Band Plan changes at the April, 2003, General Meeting.
Corrections were made to the contact list on the back page of the newsletter.
Ms. Finke asked who worked on the Band Plan. Mr. Brown believes Bob, Matt, and others worked the current version, dated July 16, 2002.
Mr. Brown suggested creating a new motto for the newsletter page. The new motto should reflect the goals of TASMA for 2003, maybe reflecting the re-validation project. Mr. Brown came up with "2003 - Dedicated to the re-validation of coordination information."
Mr. Marin will generate mailing labels. Ms. Finke will have the newsletter printed and mailed by the March 26th deadline. Since Mr. Marin is out of town, the Board may request Mr. Jim Fortney to print them.
Mr. Brown also made the comment that the Newsletter Production calendar is printed well in advanced and that he does not work well with the last minute inputs. Mr. Brown feels that there isn’t a need for this kind of delay, that two weeks is more than enough time to put out a set of minutes out and only a certain amount of work is needed to place it in the newsletter and the web site. Mr. Brown feels that TASMA is not being honest by not telling what TASMA is doing and if the membership doesn’t know what TASMA is doing, it would give the impression of a secret society.
Mr. Brown will send a CD-ROM with the newsletter to Ms. Finke in the mail tomorrow (March 17th) and a copy to Jane for placement on the web site.
Mr. Brown noted the need for volunteers for the Technical Committee, Band Plan Committee and the Re-validation Committee. All three committees have many labor-intensive activities. Volunteers are also needed in other counties. A Technical Committee member is needed in Inland Empire and Owens Valley.
Mr. Brown feels that TASMA should tap into some of the major active clubs in the area for volunteers. Mr. Brown feels that Mr. Macera could use his influence to push some people to volunteer. Mr. Brown also feels that with more information on the TASMA e-mail reflector asking for more volunteers might help find some more volunteers.
A review of the TASMA reflector and TASMATALK group was discussed. The TASMATALK group was setup for a dialog on issues. With about 30 subscribers, the talk group is being underutilized. The talk group and the reflector should not replace the web site.
A review on the repeater binary test was discussed. San Diego Co., Imperial Co. and Orange Co. were completed.
Mr. Brown feels that suggesting CTCSS on the output should be encouraged. Mr. Brown recommends that systems in disputes of interference complaints, TASMA will require that both systems should have CTCSS on the input no matter the date of the original coordination.
Ms. Finke made a motion to require all new coordination to have CTCSS/DCS decode on the repeater input and suggest CTCSS/DCS encode on the repeater output. For any interference complaints filed with the Technical Committee, the Committee will require CTCSS/DCS decode on the repeater input on both systems. Mr. Brown seconded the motion. (3-0-0).
Mr. Macera informs the Board that the Technical Committee is down from 9 to 7 members.
Mr. Macera would like to add Able Montes (N6ENL) to the committee. The conflict of statement will be sent later. Mr. Montes is an owner of various system outside of the two meters band. Mr. Montes is bilingual in English and Spanish, lives in La Puente and is part owner of DX Radio Systems.
Mr. Finke made a motion to accept Able Montes to the Technical Committee pending acceptance by Mr. Montes. Mr. Brown seconded the motion. (3-0-0)
In order to fill appointments in the Technical Committee between Board meetings, Mr. Macera would like to set an understanding of making temporary appointments to committees by the Chairman via e-mail with the Board. The Board would have 14-days to approve or not approve. The appointment would then be officially approved or not approved upon the next Board meeting.
Mr. Groza would like approval for the Technical Committee to handle administrative matters via e-mail with formal approval or non-approval at the next scheduled Committee meeting.
Mr. Brown was concerned about the documentation of the actions. All changes in the database can only come from official minutes of the Technical Committee meetings.
The meeting adjourned at 2:40 p.m.
Ted Fukushima (N6ZZK)
2003 TASMA Board Secretary
e-mail n6zzk@arrl.net
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