Meeting Minutes for April 10, 2007
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Dates for WWCIC meetings for 2007 Meetings will be held on the 2nd Tuesday like always, with no meeting in August and June joint meeting with our Canadian counterparts. The current location for regular meetings is the Washington State Patrol Office in Bellevue.
Chairman’s opening
comments: Chairman George Bisso
called the meeting to order at 9:35 am. Introductions were made around the
tables. Attendance today: 10.
Secretary-Treasurer Finance and Correspondence Reports: The invoice of $144.56 for 12 months of web site hosting was paid. Checking balance $430.14, saving interest income $.71, savings balance $2876.36.
Technical Committee
Report: Suggestions for technical presentations at meetings are
always welcome. Icom was unable to make there presentation at this meeting.
Tektronix has requested to make a technical presentation on interference
identification at the May meeting. Creating examples of hardware and
installation relating to interference reduction to augment WWCIC standards was
discussed. Also with the changes in bandplans, modulation etc. our standards
need to be reviewed and updated. (OPEN)
Web Site Report:
The web site is running smoothly. (OPEN)
BPL Issues: The
interference problems continue. (OPEN)
150/450 MHz IX: Ongoing
effort to find and correct interference on East Tiger Mountain.
FRS Issues:
Nothing new to report. (OPEN)
700 MHz Planning &
Meetings: Joint
700/800 Mhz meetings are the last Wed of the month, non public safety attendees
welcome. The March meeting was canceled due to several committee members being
unable to attend. April’s meeting location is not determined at this time.
The 700 MHz web sites are www.region43.org
for Washington State, and www.region35.org,
for Oregon. (OPEN)
800 MHz IX and Nextel
issues: The
Region 43 committee has sent a letter to the FCC with a suggested bandplan for
the boarder region that preserves US primary channel counts. It was very
difficult to come up with a plan without knowing what frequencies and locations
are in use in Canada. There may
have to be ten interoperability channels for this region, the five existing ones
that are in the treaty with Canada and five that match the new ones for the rest
of the U.S.
Technical Seminars at
WWCIC Meetings: The contact person at Icom that had setup a presentation for March has
left the company. George has had contact with another person. Suggestions
for future seminars are welcome.
Thoughts on presenting
installation and hardware examples such as grounding and filtering at meeting as
part of the technical seminar segment of the meetings were discussed.
XM and Sirius Satellite
Radio News: The merger of the two companies is progressing. One issue is how to
address the terrestrial transmission differences in the two licenses. (OPEN)
APCO business or reports
and general frequency coordination news: No report. The Washington APCO conference in Wenatchee on` June 27-29.
http://www.apcowa.org/
(OPEN)
License-free or
Spread-Spectrum technology issues: No
report. (OPEN)
4.9
GHz: Boeing
is progressing with their plans after the approval by the regional committee and
they have just received licenses. (OPEN)
A new 5 Kw transmitter at one of Wiztronics sites has been operating for several weeks without noticeable impact on the other communications equipment at the site. The transmitter is part of the network that is providing video to wireless phones.
The committee is soliciting
candidates to fill the Member at Large position #1.
Moved and seconded to adjourn at 11:21 AM.
Respectfully submitted,