I have a few things to add to Tom Frenaye and Dick Isely's very good summation of the NFCC MOU situation. The NFCC was never a frequency coordinating organization. It was an association of many (most?) regional frequency coordinators. When as a Director I voted in favor of the MOU, I did so in hopes that the NFCC could exert a positive influence on one or two coordinating organizations in my Division (we had 7 of them) that at that time were not operating in a fair or responsible manner. It didn't work out that way, but hey it was worth a try. It was also worth having an MOU as a means of putting an end to the unfounded belief among many (most?) regional coordinating bodies that the ARRL did not approve of them and in fact wanted to grab their power away and set ourselves up as the national repeater coordinating bosses. The existence of the MOU symbolized our respect for the thankless job of frequency coordination. Then repeater coordination became something of a non-issue, and the NFCC became something of a non-organization. The regional coordinating bodies went on doing their thing. All was well, or well enough, until new technologies such as D-Star came along that needed spectrum and there wasn't any place in the existing regional band plans for them. The regional coordinating organizations have had to make decisions, and these decisions may raise as many controversies as they settle. The controversy I hear about at conventions about has to do with where a coordinator chooses to put D-Star and other newer technologies. Simplex users are mad if the coordinators put D-Star on hither-to FM simplex frequencies, just as simplex users got mad back in the 1980s when AX.25 packet BBS's set up shop on FM simplex frequencies, having nowhere else to go. D-Star users, for their part, get mad if the coordinators won't give them the time of day, let alone designate frequencies for them to use. Some of the unhappy people want the ARRL to march in and tell the frequency coordinators what to do -- or what to stop doing, as the case may be. Probably not something we want to try, since we have no authority over the regional organizations and provoking the coordinating community back into paranoia mode would be neither constructive nor entertaining. In case you were wondering, the FCC is *not* going to get mixed up in this. Be glad. Nearly every time they made a pronouncement about the mechanics of coordination in the past, it made matters significantly worse. It is correct that the Board has not debated what, if anything, to do about the NFCC MOU, but the subject has come up informally a few times in the Executive Committee in recent years. Since the NFCC is dead in the water, it would certainly be tidy and a reflection of reality to terminate the MOU -- that's assuming we could locate someone who legitimately represents the NFCC to officially inform them that we're ending the agreement. The down-side of ending the MOU is that it would likely be over-interpreted by frequency coordinating organizations as the ARRL pulling the rug out from under them and disrespecting the whole concept of frequency coordination by regional volunteers. It would somehow become the nasty old League's fault that the NFCC fizzled. We could go right back to the mid-1990s and all that suspicion. The likelihood of resumed hostility between coordinators and the ARRL is what the Directors on the EC have considered to be reason enough for not officially terminating the MOU, when someone has brought the subject up from time to time. And as Dick Isely said, maybe the NFCC will revive itself. That's if enough coordinators perceive a benefit to it and are willing to do the work involved. Likely? Not very. But it's one cell in the possibility matrix. 73 - Kay N3KN