Payment of dues is strictly optional and NOT required to obtain our services. However, repeater status reports are due every other year. Payment of dues DOES NOT relieve a repeater trustee of this requirement. Many of the coordinated repeaters are inactive, or are being used for other purposes, such as simplex autopatches. Some repeaters have no inputs and their outputs are simply re-transmitting other active repeaters simply to generate activity.
Some amateurs simply like to hoard repeater pairs for future use.
In addition, repeater licensees are relocating their repeaters or increasing the antenna height or output power without authorization from the FRC Coordinators - in direct violation of FRC Coordination Policy . If you have any suggestions regarding layout or content of these pages, then please contact contact the webmaster .