Meeting Minutes for April 14, 2009

Web Page: www.wwcic.org

Information Line Phone Number: 425-820-6271

Dates for WWCIC meetings for 2009   Meetings will be held on the 2nd Tuesday like always, with no meeting in August  .  The current location for regular meetings is the Washington State Patrol Office in Bellevue.

Business Reports

Chairman’s opening comments: Chairman George Bisso called the meeting to order at 9:40 am. Introductions were made around the tables.  Attendance today: 11

Adoption of draft minutes of last meeting: Meeting minutes for March’s meeting were approved as drafted.

Secretary-Treasurer Finance and Correspondence Reports: Checking, no activity, ending balance of $760.90. Starting balance in Savings $686.02, interest $.17, ending balance of $686.19.

Committee Reports

Technical Committee Report:  Suggestions for technical presentations at meetings are always welcome. A presentation on Icom Digital Advanced System (IDAS) is scheduled for the  May 12th meeting.

For today’s presentation representatives from Zetron gave an overview of IP radio control systems (ROIP).  (OPEN)

Web Site Report:  Alan has done some maintenance of outdated content and bad links. (OPEN)

FCC Report: The FCC has set rules for the delayed transition to Digital Television. Until the transition is over June 12, 2009, DTV is the primary focus for the FCC. There is still concern that there are many individuals that rely on over the air reception (OTA) and are not ready. The FCC has a web site for information and there are several others,

https://www.dtv2009.gov/       http://www.dtvanswers.com/              http://www.antennaweb.org        (Open)

Old Business

BPL Issues: No report. (OPEN)

150/450 MHz IX: No report. (OPEN)

FRS Issues: No report.  (OPEN)

700 MHz Planning & Meetings: No report. 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: No report.  (OPEN)

XM and Sirius Satellite Radio News: Nothing new to report.  (OPEN)

APCO business or reports and general frequency coordination news: The Washington APCO Summer Training Conference will be held June 23-25 in Wenatchee. http://www.apcowa.org/      http://www.apcointl.org/  (OPEN)

License-free or Spread-Spectrum technology issues: No report.  (OPEN)

4.9 GHz: The FCC adopted new rules to enhance first responder’s use of 4.9 GHz broadband communications. (OPEN)

Amateur radio activity: No report. (OPEN)

New Business

Joint WCTC/WWCIC Meeting

We have received direct correspondence from more that a dozen Canadians requesting to be included in the joint meeting correspondence after Neil from Industry Canada sent a notice out to communications professionals in British Columbia indicating our wish to hold a meeting and to contact Steve to be on the contact mailing list. Wednesday June 17 was selected as the date to avoid conflict with the WA APCO training the following week and the DTV transition the prior week. Sudden Valley Resort was selected as the location.

Items of Information

Moved and seconded to adjourn at 11:30 AM.

Respectfully submitted,

Steven Mayes,  Secretary/Treasurer

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