Selective Access Policy Guidelines
Effective April 18, 2015
At the annual meeting of
the Illinois Repeater Association held Saturday, April 18,2015, it was enacted the
State of Illinois shall have a published Selective Access Policy put into place
for all repeater systems, analog and digital.
As the number of systems and digital modes available keep increasing,
having a published plan to coordinate selective access (PL, DPL, CTCSS, CDCSS,
NAC, RAN, Color Code, etc.) has become a
necessity.
Most of the adjacent
states we interact with have published their own such plans, and in an attempt
to standardize our in-state operations as well as making it more friendly and
easy to coordinate with our adjacent state neighbors, we have decided and the memembership has voted on and approved of implementing our own plan.
It was not a trivial task
to arrive at this point with a cogent plan that tries to balance the greatest
good for the greatest number of existing systems with respect for the adjacent
states we have to integrate and co-exist with. There is no ultimate,
perfect solution to this problem, and it has been looked at over the last 12 or
more years in an attempt to please as many people as possible.
Many great thanks go to the
Compliance with the new plan is voluntary. Existing repeater systems will be considered grandfathered and are not required to change, however compliance is encouraged if possible. New repeater coordinations henceforth will be issued in accordance with the new regional access codes as outlined in the document below.
IRA Selective Access Policy
document (PDF Format):
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