CSMA
Meeting Minutes 12/5/2004
Southington Town Hall


Paul Gibson, N1TUP, called the meeting to order at 10:15 am at the
Southington Town Hall.

The minutes of the October 10 meeting were read and accepted.

The Treasurer's report was presented.  The expense to reimburse
Rod Lane for the memorial flowers was accepted and paid.  The
balance in the treasury at this date is $1003.70.  The report
was accepted.

Paul notified the group that NESM got a vanity call NE1SM.
In addition he informed the group that complaints regarding the
Ohio coordination process were unfounded by Riley Hollingsworth.

Guests from NESMC were in attendance at today's meeting.  The
Eastern Mass and RI directors were present.  In addition it was
noted that former frequency coordinator Mark Casey, K1 MAP, has
agreed to coordinate the 902 and above spectrum for Connecticut.

The group had the discussion again regarding shared unprotected
pairs of frequencies in the areas coordinated by CSMA.  It was
moved and seconded that the following frequencies remain shared
pairs: 145.43, 147.03, 147.135,224.440, 920.000 and 1283.000.

Under new business it was moved and passed that the repeater said
to reside in Monroe, 146.835 be removed from the repeater
directory submission.

Various frequencies are under review by band coordinators for
appropriateness to be included in the directory.  It was moved
and passed that the emitter owners had the responsibility to
provide updated information.  If emitter owners do not provide
needed information then the emitter will not be listed in the
2006 directory.

It was moved and passed that an emitter owner who has filed papers
for coordination, but the emitter is not coordinated, the emitter
will be listed in the directory as uncoordinated.

The following amendments were approved for the next version of the
CSMA coordination process to be known as V3.

1.  Temporary coordination will be allowed by the FC prior to cross
coordination to allow testing.
2.  The issue of 36-month renewal for coordination was tabled.

Dana Underhill and Bruce Marcus will get with John Spigel to work
on PDF ing our forms.  NESMC reps reported that their process was
totally computerized.

Dana will finalize our directory filing for the January due date.

Finally Dana discussed working with UNYREPCO regarding the
Torrington repeater in Connecticut and the Oneonta repeater in NY.

The next meeting is scheduled for Sunday 2.27.2005 at the
Southington Town Hall at 10am.  This meeting was closed at 12/10 pm.