South East Repeater Association Web Site
Useful Coordination Tools
These pages are designed to be of assistance to North Carolina amateur radio operators wishing to coordinate a repeater on the 10M, 6M, 2M,1.25M, 70cm, 33cm, 23cm, and 13cm bands. Coordination services are provided to all amateurs free of charge by the Southeast Repeater Association (SERA); Detailed information about the states that SERA provides coordination services for can be found at SERA's website under Districts.
If you're thinking about coordinating a repeater, you should go to the SERA website under Coordination and download a coordination package. The coordination package contains SERA Form 03 (Coordination Application), a copy of SERA's Coordination Policy and Guidelines, and a copy of the SERA band plan, all essential information to have on hand.
For North Carolina, I am the SERA NC Vice-Director and Frequency Coordinator. Bob Lukaszewski, K4HA who is a NC Assistant Director, assists me. We both work for Danny Hampton, K4ITL SERA NC Director. You may contact us via email by sending to our call at sera.org.
Our primary mission is to assist amateur wishing to operate a repeater with the best selection of an operating frequency and other technical parameters, consistent with SERA's Coordination Policy and Guidelines. Note that for many areas of NC, there simply aren't any more available 2M frequencies unless someone returns on the pool. Some of the other bands aren't as crowded and getting you a frequency there isn't as difficult.
Don't hesitant to contact me via phone or email with any questions about coordination. I can do a quick check to see if something looks like it MIGHT work, HOWEVER, NO formal coordination work will be done until I receive a coordination application (Form 03). After I get the Form 03, the data on the form will be reviewed. We may contact you for some additional information or clarification if there are questions, otherwise, we will issue a NOPC (notice of proposed coordination) to the surrounding coordinators in other states. For us here in NC this can include the SERA areas of VA, SC, TN, GA, KY, and WV. It may also include coordination groups that are not part of SERA (for example TMARC).
Please be patient! For each coordination that we're working on, we have to get a YES/NO vote from each person the NOPC is sent to. Also, your coordination probably isn't the only one that we're working on. If there are no issues and we get all yes votes, you will be sent a Form05 (Notice of Frequency Assignment) with all the technical parameters and details of your coordination. You will also get a Form 09 that you'll return to me when the repeater is actually placed on the air. That will result in the status of your database listing being changed from Proposed to ON Air. Machines that get coordinated but for whatever reason don't get placed on the air within six months should be returned to the coordination pool so that others can use them.
I included some links above to some coordination resources that you may find useful.