History of the
National
Frequency
Coordinators'
Council, Inc.
(NFCC)
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With the signing
of the National Frequency
Coordination Council's Articles of Incorporation during the week of 24
June 1996, Amateur Radio's frequency coordinating community took its
first
steps toward achieving national recognition. This effort was greatly
enhanced
by the creation of a limited-access frequency coordinator's email
remailer/reflector
in May 1995.
Born out of a
frequency coordinator's meeting,
attended by the vast majority of the nation's frequency coordinators,
and
hosted by the ARRL in St. Louis during early October 1995, the
frequency
coordinators elected to pursue establishing a nation-wide, Single Point
Of Contact (SPOC). The tasks of this SPOC are to improve communication
between the FCC and the frequency coordination community, to establish
national certification for frequency coordinator recognition, and to
elevate
national appreciation and understanding.
Supporting this
effort, the ARRL provided conference
facilities for the St. Louis meeting and instructed its ad hoc
Committee
on Repeater Coordination to work with the NFCC to produce an
acceptable,
support-based Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the newly
formed
organization and League headquarters staff.
Until the formal election of
an NFCC Board of Directors,
an elected Drafting Committee (see
picture below) comprised
of Whit Brown, WB0CJX; Jim Fortney, K6IYK; Dick Isely, WD9GIG; Paul
Gilbert,
KE5ZW; Bill Kelsey, WA6FVC; and Chairman Owen Wormser, K6LEW,
accomplished
several noteworthy tasks. The NFCC is now incorporated as a
not-for-profit
IRS Section 501(c)(3) corporation; the NFCC's Bylaws were ratified by
the
nation's frequency coordinators; a proposed Memorandum of
Understanding,
also ratified by the nation's frequency coordinators, was negotiated
with
ARRL representatives in Peoria, IL in September of 1996, which was
unanimously
approved by the ARRL Board of Directors in October of 1996.
In January of 1996
the formative Drafting Committee
was dissolved and the nation's frequency coordinators elected their
first
Board of Directors for the NFCC. Elected for two-year terms
in office
were: Dick Isely, WD9GIG; Dave Shiplett, AC4MU; and, Owen Wormser,
K6LEW;
elected for one-year terms were: Whit Brown, WB0CJX; and, Jim Fortney,
K6IYK. In January 1998, Clay Freinwald, K7CR; and Whit Brown, WB0CJX
were
elected for two-year terms to the Board.
Presently,
proposed language for amending current
FCC regulations with respect to Amateur Radio Service repeater and
auxiliary
systems operations is in the continuing stages of
development. This
latter effort will ultimately take the form of a FCC Notice of Proposed
Rule Making.
All the Board
members are active in frequency
coordination, have e-mail access, are active on the coordinators
reflector
(remailer), and have access to the World Wide Web.
Charter Document
Drafting Committee
Pictured from left to right:
Owen Wormser, K6LEW;
Whit Brown, WB0CJX; Jim Fortney, K6IYK; William F. Kelsey, WA6FVC;
George
(Dick) Isely, WD9GIG
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