Western Washington Cooperative Interference Committee

Membership Benefits

The primary benefit of WWCIC membership is help with identifying, locating and resolving radio frequency interference problems. Membership dues help support this web site and other activities. The monthly meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month at 9:30 am. and include refreshments of coffee and donuts. Meeting places vary so check this web site for the location of the next meeting.

Some of the benefits of these meetings are as follows:

• Meeting and networking with peers
• Concentrated lobbying efforts concerning items of interest to the group
• Direct access to the local FCC representatives
• Access to radio site and system owners and managers
• Annual meeting with Canadian Radio Spectrum Users
• Affiliation with other professional organizations such as the local chapters of the Association of Public Safety Communications (APCO), the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) and the North Pacific Marine Radio Council (NPMRC).

Some of the past and present issues that WWCIC has acted upon:

• Responsible for the 100 mile spacing between certain sites used by SMR and Government 800 MHz radio users.
• Helped radio broadcast stations in the Seattle area work with Metro Transit to eliminate or reduce electrical noise generated by electric buses that interfered with radio reception in vehicles.
• Instrumental in establishing meetings at the local level between the FCC and IC (Industry Canada).
• Established an annual meeting between users of the radio spectrum in Western Washington and British Columbia.
• Established radio site standards which are used by most radio site managers in Washington State as minimum criteria for all users at radio sites. Standards.
• Provide an avenue of direct access and feedback to the local office of the FCC in regards to current or impending federal government actions.

For more information please send an email to Alan Robinson at alanr@wwcic.org.