It is my understanding that changing the source of repeater data would change the reimbursement for providing data n such a way as to completely de-fund many local repeater councils. I have been told that Minnesota's council would be one such. Is this true in general, and how significant would this change be on a yearly basis? Is this change something we should be prepared for a firestorm about? -- 73, Greg Widin, K0GW ARRL Dakota Division Director On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ <dsumner@arrl.org> wrote:
All Directors:
At Minute 9.3 of the October 5 EC meeting I reported on a plan developed by Steve Ford, WB8IMY to improve the accuracy of listings in the ARRL *Repeater Directory*. The new procedure for collecting and maintaining repeater data is explained in the attachment, which will be going out to frequency coordinators next week.
Until now, repeater coordinators have provided all of the information for the *Repeater Directory* listings. While the data is in a common database, we regard each coordinator’s data as “their” data and allow them to manage it. The degree to which the coordinators do so varies widely. As a result we receive complaints about the accuracy of the listings and are at somewhat of a competitive disadvantage to other published repeater listings.
The new procedure allows data to be received directly from repeater operators. However, coordinators will still have ample opportunity to “vet” the data for their areas and to make changes, for example to delete uncoordinated repeaters.
73,
Dave Sumner, K1ZZ
Chief Executive Officer
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