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Florida Repeater Council

Applying for or Updating a Coordination

Click the links below to submit an electronic renewal, update or new application.

Note that earth coordinates are to be entered in degrees-minutes-seconds format. By defintion, minutes and seconds cannot be greater than 59. Please convert your decimal-degrees to this format before entry. NOTE: QRZ.COM'S DEFAULT COORDINATES ARE FOR THE CENTER OF YOUR ZIP CODE. (Click HERE to access the FCC's coordinate converter). (Click HERE to access Stephen Morse's coordinate search and conversion page).

Applications that are submitted with erroneous, conflicting or missing information will be returned to the applicant unprocessed. The applicant may re-submit the application but the original date of submission will not be honored.

All D-Star coordinations issued on 144 and 440 MHz will be conditional. The Council is establishing a plan to coordinate D-Star repeaters (possibly on splinter frequencies). This may result in a small change in frequency for a repeater already in service.

All 144 and 440 MHz repeaters coordinated after January 1, 2003 must require non-carrier access such as CTCSS, DCS, APCO P25, or D-Star to reduce interference to other repeaters caused by coverage overlap. If CTCSS is chosen then is strongly recommended that these repeaters choose the CTCSS frequencies recommended by the FRC for the respective district to prevent overlap with co-channel repeaters in adjacent districts. See our CTCSS info page for recommended CTCSS frequencies. Existing repeaters that choose not to support non-carrier access should not expect the FRC to resolve their interference problem if non-carrier access would likely solve the problem.

New applications for coordination must specify the expected RF output power of the repeater transmitter. Federal Communications Commission Rule 97.313 (f) states that "No station may transmit with a transmitter power exceeding 50 W PEP on the 440 MHz band unless expressly authorized by the FCC and the military area frequency coordinator at the applicable military base." Any application submitted with a transmitter RF output power level (not ERP) greater than 50 watts must include written permission from the military frequency coordinator of Florida. Otherwise it will not be processed and returned to the applicant.

Gulf Area Frequency Coordinators

All of Florida west of
83 degrees West longitude		All of Florida east of
83 degrees West longitude
Joe P. Giangrosso
201 W. Eglin Blvd., Suite 228
Eglin AFB, FL 32542-6829
e-mail: joe.giangrosso@eglin.af.mil
Telephone: (850) 882-4416		 Mr. Richard Akers
45th Space Wing/SCXF
1225 Pershing ST., MS 9131
Patrick AFB, FL 32925-3340
Telephone: (321) 494-5838

  • RENEWAL - Notify the FRC that a repeater is active and is operating in compliance with its current coordination.
  • COORDINATION UPDATE - Update an existing coordination with changes that DO NOT affect the coverage area of the repeater (trustee, sponsor, contact information, repeater operating features or callsign, link and control frequencies or other repeaters linked to).
  • NEW COORDINATION or RE-COORDINATION - Apply for coordination of a new repeater, request a change of repeater frequency pair, or update an existing coordination with changes that affect the coverage area of the repeater (location, antenna height or effective radiated output power).

    Coordination requests for output frequencies below 442 MHz are approved in Districts 1, 2, and 4. The repeater antenna must never exceed 120 feet above sea level, the repeater must always require CTCSS access and the coordination will always be conditional.

    Your District Director will acknowledge your submittal and verify its accuracy. Your director will contact you if there are any errors or omissions and will then check for conflicts or assist you in locating an appropriate frequency pair. Your director will then request coordination approval from the Coordinator and the Board of Directors. If approved then you will receive an electronic message from the Coordinator with links to download electronic copies of your coordination paperwork, or hard copy of your coordination paperwork via by first class mail.

When a repeater coordination is issued, a letter of coordination and a copy of the database record are mailed to the applicant. For all applications submitted on-line, and those submitted by snail mail with a valid e-mail address, links to download the coordination paperwork will be sent to the applicant electronically unless otherwise requested. The electronic documents are in Adobe portable document format (PDF).

Click HERE for a copy of the short-space agreement

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