• Candidates Needed!

    John Maxwell

    Hello Colorado Ham!  The Colorado Council of Amateur Radio Clubs, Inc. is seeking qualified applicants for the position of Chairman of the Board, Corporate Secretary and Frequency Coordinator.  These positions are integral to the CCARC’s mission of providing reliable, transparent frequency coordination and direction to the Colorado Amateur Radio Community.

    Chairman:  Preside over meetings, develop direction to the Council and ensure fairness in all of our policies.  We have had a long succession of very reliable Chairpersons and are glad to solicit new candidates.  The current Chairman is willing to assist in on-the-job-training for new candidates so there should be no concern that something is not known!

    Frequency Coordinator:  This is the single most important task in the organization and is the gatekeeper for the very finite resources known as frequency allocations for the amateur community.  This person’s ethics, reliability and technical abilities are very important.  The current acting Frequency Coordinator has been very willing to support new candidates and encourage anyone that is interested!

    Secretary:  The Corporate Secretary ensures compliance in CCARC’s written word, compiles minutes for the meetings and ensures that we meet the regulatory requirements that the Federal Government and State impose on us from time to time.  This position is extremely important and not something that we can live without!

    If you have interest in doing any of these positions, please make your interest know to the Nomination Committee chaired by AC0KQ, Willem Schreuder.

     

  • CCARC Fall 2025 Meeting Scheduled

    John Maxwell

    Hi All,

    We’re going to need to schedule the Fall 2025 meeting for CCARC on October 11th due to conflicts the next weekend for HamCon prep and the next weekend conflicts with HamCon.  Please mark your calendars!  I will send out an agenda as we get closer to all of the club delegates.

    73, W0VG
    John Maxwell
    Chairman

  • HamCon Colorado 2025 is nearly here!

    HamCon Colorado 2025 is nearly here!

    John Maxwell

    HamCon Colorado 2025, the Rocky Mountain Division ARRL Convention is coming October 23-26 2025 in Grand Junction, CO.  Don’t miss out!  Visit https://www.hamconcolorado.com for more information or to register!

  • Spring 2025 Meeting Scheduled

    John Maxwell

    Hi All,

    CCARC has scheduled the 2025 Spring Meeting of the Delegates and this is an informal invite to you.  Please mark your calendars for April 19, 2025.  We will meeting a 1PM promptly and it should end no later than 3PM but we usually keep it to about an hour unless there is business to deal with.

    If you are not a delegate or alternate for your club, please drop a note to the Chairman in the “Contact Us” menu above to be added to the distribution.

     

  • Fall 2024 Meeting Announced

    John Maxwell

    Hi All,
    We’ve scheduled the Fall 2024 meeting of the CCARC. It will be held on October 19, 2024 from 1-3PM on Zoom.  If changes need to be made to your delegates, please log onto the portal and make changes.  You need to make these changes yourself!
    We will send a preliminary agenda, Zoom invite and any necessary handouts as we get closer to the meeting day.Looking forward to seeing you all!73, W0VG
    John Maxwell
    Chairman
    Colorado Council of Amateur Radio Clubs

  • Spring 2024 Meeting Announced

    Chris Keller

    Hi All,

    We’ve scheduled the Spring 2024 meeting of the CCARC. It will be held on April 27th, 2024 from 1-3PM on Zoom. You are receiving this email as you are listed as either the Delegate or Alternate for your organization. If changes need to be made to these positions, please log onto the portal and make changes.

    This meeting, we will be electing a new Chairman and Frequency Coordinator. If you wish to be on the ballot for one of the positions, please contact the nominating committee chairperson, Willem Schreuder, AC0KQ.

    We will send a preliminary agenda, Zoom invite and any necessary handouts as we get closer to the meeting day.

    Looking forward to seeing you all!

    73, W0VG
    John Maxwell
    Chairman
    Colorado Council of Amateur Radio Clubs

  • Fall Meeting Minutes and Coordinated Off Air Repeaters

    Chris Keller

    The minutes from the Fall meeting have been posted.

    The minutes include a list of 10 repeaters which have been verified off-air for at least six months and have been proposed for de-coordination in order to free up coordinations which are not actively being used. A final vote in the April 2024 meeting will be held to finalize those de-coordinations. If you’re on the list and you still need your coordination, get in touch before it’s too late!

    The April 2024 meeting will be scheduled soon; check back for more information.

  • Fall Meeting Announcement

    Chris Keller

    It’s almost that time again.  We will be holding the fall edition of the CCARC Meeting on Saturday, October 21, 2023 1-3pm via Zoom.  Please make sure you mark the date in your calendar.  We will be posting an agenda and minutes of the previous meeting about two weeks out.

    If you need an invite to the zoom call, please drop the chairman a note in the menu above.

  • Succession Planning

    John Maxwell

    We’ve had several situations that need to be brought to your attention.  As normal with your estate planning you need to plan for the future of your repeater coordinations!  When you pass, if you are the ONLY person with access to your coordination records, those coordinations will be cancelled unless there is clear and definitive proof that the coordination should be conveyed to someone else.

    We have given significant thought about this in the coordination portal and have made it easy for you to add successors to your club and personal records.

    For personal records, you can add “Approved Users” to your user record.  If you add an “Approved User” to your user record, that person can submit annual updates and similar management of your coordinations.  Approved Users can also be designated as the trustee or correspondence contact for your coordinations.  An Approved User cannot transfer your coordination to themselves or another entity, but if you are silent key, CCARC will interpret the Approved User designation as consent to transfer the coordination to an Approved User.  You can change or delete Approved Users at any time, but approved users cannot add additional Approved Users.  Only you can add an Approved User to your coordinations.

    For Clubs, we highly recommend that the club be listed as the “Holder of Record” on all the club’s coordinations.  If you don’t see a certain coordination listed under the club record, it’s likely in someone’s individual call.  This MUST be changed by the person who is listed as the Holder of Record by clicking Transfer Holder of Record and enter the club call.

    Each club record can have “Approved Users” just like any record.  Those Approved Users can submit annual updates and manage other aspects of the coordination.

    Note that the callsign used on a repeater is different than the Holder of Record.  You can use any callsign the FCC regulations permit on the repeater.  Changing the callsign does not require coordinator approval.  The Holder of Record on the other hand is the club or individual that has been designated as the entity to which the coordination was issued.

    A Club cannot be a trustee.  The trustee must be an individual, and that individual must be an Approved User for the club.

    The Approved Users for a club can manage all the club’s coordinations.  However, in order to add or remove Approved Users or to apply for a new coordination with the club as the holder of record, you will need to log in using the club login.  Therefore the password for the club login should be known to officers of the club.  The club email address which can be used to recover a lost password should be a shared email that can be accessed by officers of the club so that when an officer becomes silent key or moves away, the club retains access to the club record.

  • Spring 2023 Meeting Minutes

    Chris Keller

    The CCARC Spring 2023 meeting was held on Saturday, April 22.

    Meeting MinutesMeeting Audio Recording

    The Fall meeting has been scheduled for October 21st, 2023 at 1-4pm. The meeting will be held by Zoom video conference and will be sent out to members on the mailing list. Please email the chairman if you would like to be included.