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Old Town Amateur Radio
Club Cruisers
The OTARC
(a not for profit organization)
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!
October 30th, 2009 Laura, NO4OO, Larry, WA3PGL, Emil,
KG4GNH, Linda, K4EIO and Me, K4SLB managed to get the 20 pipe and
GP-9 on to the wooden tower,
for photos click here.
November 4th,
2009 Laura, NO4OO, Larry, WA3PGL, Ted, KE4TTE, Linda, K4EIO
and Me, K4SLB finished getting the hard-line run into the building
for repeater,
for photos click here.
November 6th,
2009 The FRC was notified of the Frequency change on line
today. We should hear something with in the next 15 days.
November 7th,
2009 Ted, KE4TTE, Emil, KG4GNH, Linda, K4EIO and Me, K4SLB
managed to get Ted's 442.100 Vertex Repeater in it's cabinet up in it's new placement
and the repeater on the air
for photos click here.
November 28th, 2009 The
442.100 repeater is now linked to the N4ARG 147.210 (Kissimmee) and
the N4HHA 443.400 (Orlando MCO) repeater via the ARRG.UStar 2k9
Controller and it shares the IRLP Node 4338 and the 47210 EchoLink
node along with it's own node 371453. Please leave long pauses
between overs so that all of the electronics can sync.
December 10th, 2009 A new coordination for the
repeater has been filled once again with the FRC. Seems I used the
wrong form on the 6th of November and their 15 day response was over
30 days. $20 was donated to the council today.
December 30th, 2009 The Coordination for the 442.100
at Old Town was approved by the Florida Repeater Council.
January 2nd, 2010
Vertex VX5000 Repeater and duplexer was returned to and picked up
by Ian, K4ZPZ/G4ZPZ and Scott.
January 10th, 2010 After not hearing the 146.700 on the air
for more than 6 months we decided to set up a system on that pair
with the intentions of turning it off after any complaints of it's
operation by the duly coordinated pair holder.
February 3rd, 2010 Larry, WA3PGL and Dave KF8CI started the
initial testing of the 146.700 at Old Town. Steve K4SLB submitted
the paperwork for the Coordination of same.
July 9th, 2010 No contact from anyone about the machine on
this pair so Steve K4SLB re-submitted the paperwork for
the Coordination of the 146.7000.
September 22nd, 2010 Larry, Steve, Ted, Linda & Dave
installed the wireless router, above Suite 200, for internet access
for the repeater and club members thanks to Cheryl the owner of
Wound n' Round.
October 31st, 2010 The controller was repaired on the
146.700 and the router was replaced.
December 14th, 2010
The Coordination for the 146.700 was approved using the call sign N4GUS
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