I attended a local repeater coordination meeting WPRC in Butler Pa this past weekend.
I was amazed at the amount of argument and bickering the board members did, and seemed to go out of their way to make life difficult for a fellow from a repeater group who travelled several hours to be there. He was there, in person, with documentation, they insisted he dident have the correct information, and refused to even read it. Then the WPRC secretary finally got them to shut up for a moment and read their own mail. Turns out they did have the paperwork in their incoming mail, that they hadent read. He requested a modification of the callsign, and trusteeship. They were not going to fix it. "That's just not the way its done" Then they chewed on him because somebody else made an error on the paperwork years ago, and instead of just doing a modification, they made him relinquish his coordination, and required him to reapply at the next session. What a pain in the .... Neck. I see why somebody said about it being an old mans activity, you need lots of "age acquired patience" to deal with their little kangaroo court. Ed Bathgate Manufacturing Test Engineer Marconi division of Ericsson 4000 Marconi Drive Warrendale PA 15086-7594 (724) 742-6575 Fax (724) 742-7177
