Does MetroCor even exist anymore? They wanted me to pay to coordinated previously coordinated repeaters from TSARC. Since they claimed to be tax exempt at the time, I asked for a copy of their financial statement which they refused to provide. They also wanted every individual to pay an "emitter fee", even if you didn't own a repeater!
I understand it takes money to be a coordinating body. Postage, renting space for meetings, paper, envelopes, ink, equipment to verify repeaters are operating as coordinated. That is all good but needs to be documented, especially when claiming tax exemption.
Now this was MANY years ago. If MetroCor exists today, I sure hope it is run better.
Three repeaters I maintain have been happily on the air since. Someone actually put a repeater at their local work location on same pair as one of the repeaters and were using it in DPL for business use (building maintenance) so the person could leave his radio in CSQ and hear his son call thru my repeater if he needed to reach his dad. That didn't fly long.
