Meeting Minutes for July 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 November 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 9:45 am. Introductions were made around the
tables. Attendance today: 10.
Secretary-Treasurer Finance and Correspondence Reports: One membership dues received. Checking balance $430.14, saving interest income $.69, savings balance $2878.51.
Technical Committee
Report: Suggestions for technical presentations at meetings are
always welcome. BPL and Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) was suggested as a
future topic for a presentation. (OPEN)
FCC Report:
It was erroneously reported at the June meeting that Mike Rothe was
retiring, he is still working at the Seattle District Office. Mike Mehigan
is leaving the FCC for a position with a private firm.
BPL Issues: No
report. (OPEN)
150/450 MHz IX:
KIRO broadcasting has been experiencing interference (music, comments, jamming)
on their VHF remote pickup channel(s) since January. The FCC has been monitoring
and localized it to the Queen Anne area before it stopped. Similar interference
has been heard on VHF amateur frequencies and KIRO’s UHF channels used for
traffic reporting has been jammed periodically. It is unknown if these are
related. (OPEN)
FRS Issues:
Nothing new to report. (OPEN)
700 MHz Planning &
Meetings:
NIPSTIC has had some discussion of a new committee to address the management and
administration of Nation Wide 700 MHz allocations. Meetings between US and
Canada are taking place on the East Coast in regards to what Canada is going to
do and possible use of 700MHz frequencies for the Olympics. 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: Snohomish
County’s East Simulcast system is up and running now. They have had moisture
intrusion problems with their tower top amplifiers. (OPEN)
Technical Seminars at
WWCIC Meetings: Suggestions for future
seminars are welcome. (OPEN)
APCO business or reports
and general frequency coordination news: The lack of technical content appears to have reduced attendance by
technical staff personnel at the APCO Washington conference in Wenatchee, June
27-29. http://www.apcowa.org/
(OPEN)
License-free or
Spread-Spectrum technology issues: No
report. (OPEN)
4.9
GHz: Snohomish
County is planning to put in some 4.9G systems. (OPEN)
Amateur radio activity: The
ARRL continues to work on BPL issues.
Field
Day exercises went well despite band conditions being poor. I the spirit of
emergency communications using available supplies one group in Snohmish Co. was
successful in using the airframe of a B-52 Bomber parked next to their
communications vehicle at Paine Field for an antenna.
Joint
WCTC/WWCIC Meeting
No further responses have
been received from WCTC after communications were made with Keith Bandy of the
WCTC. The WWCIC board proposed to host a meeting around November 14 at Semiahmoo.
It was approved to pursue. The Winter Olympics will be a big topic; what are
Industry Canada’s plans, how will they coordinate all the communications
equipment coming into the area, what is the status of the cross border public
safety communications network, how can the WWCIC help, 700MHz and 800MHz issues
are a few broad subjects that were suggested. We
need to develop an agenda so please forward topics that you would like discussed
to the board so we can prepare both sides.
After many years of service at Valley Communications Center Chris Fischer is retiring.
Moved and seconded to adjourn at 11:05 AM.
Respectfully submitted,