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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!
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