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Old Town Amateur Radio ~~Club~~ Cruisers
The OTARC
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December 28th, 2007 The Old Town Amateur Radio Cruisers is formed.
December 28th, 2007 The Amateur Radio Repeater Geezers United Society governing body and Bylaws have been adopted for the OTARC.
December 28th, 2007 www.otarc.com is established and on-line.
December 28th, 2007 FRN established.
December 28th, 2007 Club License applied for.
December 29th, 2007 Permission for Repeater at Old Town conveyed.
December 29th, 2007 Equipment meeting with member KE4TTE during the "Saturday Nite Cruise©"
December 31st, 2007 KJ4BGM issued by the FCC to the OTARC.

January 4th, 2008 Repeater Coordination applied for.
January 14th, 2008 Vanity call sign modification requested and paid for.
February 1st, 2008 KJ4BGM call replaced by the N4OTC Vanity Call Sign issued today by the FCC.
March 1st, 2008: Still awaiting approval for the placement of the Clubs repeater.
March 1st, 2008 Still awaiting Coordination from The FRC for the Repeater.
March 2nd, 2008: In reply from FRC, the Coordination should be coming soon.
March 16th, 2008 The Florida Repeater Council granted the 444.725 MHZ pair to be implemented for this machine. Coordination record #1313 today. We now have 90 days to get this on the air.
April 29th, 2008 Repeater Coordination applied for 443.925 pair.
May 14th, 2008 Ian, G4ZPZ and Sue 2E1SUE loaned a Vertex VX5000 Repeater and duplexer to this project, Thank You. Echolink Node for N4OTC-R 371453 established.
May 30th, 2008 The Florida Repeater Council denied the 443.925 Pair.
June 28th, 2008 We kicked off the Club during the Saturday Nite Cruise and had our own "Field Day" and HAM radio awareness to all that were on the streets. Click here for story and Photos.
July 16th, 2008 The OTARC has adopted the "Wednesday Cruise-In during the "Rock at the Clock" event at Old Town. Join us any Wednesday to see what we are all about.
August 29th, 2008: The repeater is now on the air in Testing and Adjusting mode, hope to have on air 24/7 by the end of September.
September 6th, 2008: Our first testing session was this morning at Old Town, Kissimmee, Florida. 2 out of 2 candidates achieved Element 2 . Laura NO4OO, Larry WA3PGL and K4SLB Steve were the examiners.
September 9th, 2008 The FCC issued the call signs KJ4GNH to Emil and KJ4GNI to Mike, congratulations!

January 3rd, 2009: Our second testing session was held was held this morning at Old Town, Kissimmee, Florida. 2 out of 2 candidates achieved Element 2, Ian, G4ZPZ and Sue 2E1SUE. Laura NO4OO, Larry WA3PGL, Ed, AJ4CM and K4SLB, Steve were the examiners. Linda, K4EIO was instructed on how to set up a session.
January 6th, 2009: Ian, G4ZPZ and Sue 2E1SUE have received their first US call signs, Ian, KJ4ITE and Sue is KJ4ITF, they posted today on the FCC ULS. Congratulations!