Weston Mountain Digital Radio Association

The Weston Mountain Digital Radio Association maintains and operates a system
of high-quality, wide area coverage repeaters for the use and enjoyment of all
licensed Amateur Radio, and GMRS operators. Operation and use of these
repeaters shall comply fully with the Amateur Radio Service (Part 97), and the
General Mobile Radio Service (Part 95) regulations of the Federal Communications
Commission’s Private Radio Service. In addition to FCC regulations, the following
are policies enacted by the WMDRA which apply to all members and users while
utilizing our systems. IAW FCC rules and regulations the WMDRA reserves the right
to ban anyone who willfully disregards our guidelines and policies, and/or FCC
rules and regulations.

1. The repeaters are provided for the purposes of contacting and passing
   information between fellow amateur radio and GMRS operators. This, while
   supporting our local community as a voluntary, noncommercial
   communication service, particularly with respect to providing emergency
   communications when the need arises.
2. The Weston Mountain Digital Radio Association is not affiliated with any
   outside emergency, or otherwise communications organization. Therefore,
   all emergency operation on the W7NEO repeater system shall be conducted
   in accordance with the Weston Mountain Digital Radio Association
   Emergency Management Plan, and no other.
3. In the spirit of the Amateur Radio Service, while operating on the W7NEO
   repeater system users shall respect and treat each other in a courteous and
   positive manner.
4. No station and/or outside organization shall without the express permission
   of the Weston Mountain Digital Radio Association be permitted to arbitrarily
   conduct net operation, integrate as part of their organizations
   communication plan, or otherwise commandeer any W7NEO repeater(s) for
   their own purpose. We do not permit our system to be commandeered by
   anyone or any organization for any reason. Emergency traffic always takes
   priority per FCC rules, other than that our system will be free from outside
   interference and available to all.
5. Due to the wide coverage of the repeaters and the relatively large group of
   users, operators should always pause before transmitting, to allow other
   station(s) to break in, and avoid tailgating.
6. Operators of the analog portion of the W7NEO system shall announce their
   call sign before transmitting any touch-tone commands, and every ten
   minutes or less during normal voice communication. The use of touch tones
   on the digital side of the system is highly discouraged.
7. The use of tactical callsigns is not permitted on either the analog nor the
   digital portion of the W7NEO repeater system.
8. There shall be absolutely no communications over the repeater system(s)
   containing obscene, indecent, or profane language. Out of consideration for
   others on the system discussion of potentially sensitive issues shall be
   avoided. Please refer under “Policies and Procedures” to “The Three Don’ts”
   for further clarification.
9. Malicious interference on the repeater(s) shall not be tolerated. No one shall
   cause or condone the malicious and/or intentional interference of
   communications on the repeater(s). Violations shall be reported to the
   nearest FCC field office for further action, and the offending station(s) shall
   be permanently blocked from the system.
10. Access to the W7NEO repeater system by militias or other such groups
    attempting to propagate antigovernment, racist, or other such radical
    idealisms shall not be permitted access to the system under any
    circumstances whether real or implied. We don’t promote any political or
    religious faction, but do regard ourselves as members of this nation and are
    proud to be. We feel these groups are the antiphrasis of what The United
    States of America stands for.
    
11. All are welcome on our system. We don’t permit discrimination based on
    race, creed, nationality, religion or lack thereof, gender or gender identity,
    age, sexual orientation, disability.
    
12. The Weston Mountain Digital Radio Association reserves the right to forbid
    the use of our repeaters by any one individual, or outside organization who
    repeatedly violates these rules, our operating policies, or anyone who facilitates or encourages others to violate or otherwise refuses to abide by
13. our policies.
14. 13.Our group does not have official affiliations with other clubs or Emergency
15. Communications groups. We have a couple of groups who have been with
16. us for a long time and helped us, but even they have no official designation.
17. They are simply friends.
18. 14.If someone has a personal emergency, simply state so and either call for
19. who you need or put out a distress call.
20. 15.In the event of a true declared emergency we will follow our Comprehensive
21. Emergency Plan.
22. 16.We accept donations of money and equipment under the condition of it
23. being “no strings attached”. You can’t give equipment or money and say it is
24. specifically to be used for something. When you donate anything, we
25. reserve the right to use it however we see fit. We appreciate any and all
26. donations, but we must kindly say no thank you if you add conditions. This
27. would allow outside control of our group and we are strongly against that.
28. Either way though, we thank you for your consideration.
29. 17.It is the general policy of the WMDRA to limit the conducting of net
30. operation on the W7NEO repeater system. However, requests to conduct
31. nets may be submitted via email to the WMDRA, and will be reviewed by the
32. association, along with those groups linked into the system full-time. Final
33. approval will be based upon the determination of the value, legitimacy, and
34. service to the Amateur Radio community of the proposed net.