Our History | Our Foundation | Our People
Lifetime Charter Members
Sin City Repeater Group, Inc. was built long before there was paperwork, a boardroom, or a corporate filing. It was built through friendships, radios, repeaters, late nights, mountain trips, technical experimentation, donated equipment, shared expenses, and countless hours of hands-on work. Our bylaws recognize the people whose sweat equity helped turn that history into the organization we know today.
The story did not start yesterday.
Sin City Repeater Group, Inc. traces its modern roots to 2014, when a group of friends and Amateur Radio operators began building the relationships, systems, traditions, and technical infrastructure that ultimately developed into today’s organization.
Even 2014 does not tell the whole story. Part of the technical lineage reaches back into the 1980s through the K7RSW 448.875 MHz repeater in Henderson. Another branch reaches into the 1990s through the 146.415 MHz simplex group in Buffalo, New York. Over the years, those relationships, experiences, and operating traditions crossed cities and state lines and became part of the foundation from which Sin City Repeater Group, Inc. grew.
The organization was formally incorporated on December 31, 2025, but the friendships, technical work, and shared history were already well established. The corporation came later. The relationships and the work came first.
The K7RSW 448.875 MHz repeater in Henderson establishes part of the technical heritage that would eventually intersect with Sin City Repeater Group, Inc.
The 146.415 MHz simplex group in Buffalo, New York, creates another branch of the friendships and operating history connected with the organization.
The modern Las Vegas group begins taking shape through friendship, Amateur Radio activity, repeater work, experimentation, and the community that ultimately became Sin City Repeater Group, Inc.
Sweat Equity
There may be no better shorthand for Charter Membership than “sweat equity.” These were people who helped build the foundation through time, labor, technical expertise, equipment, financial resources, organizational work, and the simple willingness to show up when something needed to be done.
That language is not merely sentimental. The bylaws specifically recognize individuals who made substantial foundational contributions to the establishment, development, and initial operation of Sin City Repeater Group, Inc. and its repeater systems.
The bylaws identify those contributions as including time, labor, technical expertise, equipment, financial resources, and organizational effort, collectively described as “sweat equity.”
They also make an important distinction. Those contributions were voluntary. Charter Member recognition does not create an ownership interest in Sin City Repeater Group, Inc., a right to repayment or compensation, or a personal claim upon its assets.
Source: Bylaws of Sin City Repeater Group, Inc., Section 3, “Lifetime Charter Members.”Sweat equity built the foundation.
Charter Membership recognizes that history. It does not create ownership of the organization.
The Charter Members
Charter Member is a specific historical designation. It is not a title automatically created by current involvement, present leadership, repeater ownership, committee service, length of recent membership, or participation after the organization was established.
Many people have made meaningful contributions to Sin City Repeater Group, Inc. since its formative years, and many more will contribute in the decades ahead. Those contributions are valued. Charter Membership, however, recognizes the particular group whose foundational service is expressly memorialized in the bylaws.
The bylaws designate the following 19 individuals by name as the Charter Members of Sin City Repeater Group, Inc.:
Lifetime Charter Members of Sin City Repeater Group, Inc.
- Paul L. Cuzzacrea KD6SIN
- Giovanni V. Falcone K7GIO
- Reynaldo S. Faustino AK7RF
- Dr. William P. Freeman N4NJJ
- Jeremy S. Gaddis N7JSG
- Justin L. Harris KG7FKJ
- Harry F. Hyter K7THB
- Jeremy P. Medinac N2UGS
- Austin McGovern AA1CO
- Kirk A. Nemzer NO7BS
- Daniel A. Nezgoda W7IVK
- Christopher P. Ortega KI7VLP
- Steven D. Portnoff KD7LVX
- Donovan P. Rand N7XO
- Ryan W. Rogers N7RMK
- Patrick J. Smith KC2XD
- Timothy Tyler KA8VIR
- Randall S. Werber K7RSW
- Ross Wullenweber KB2TIN
What Lifetime Charter Membership Means
Recognition carries real privileges, but it also remains subject to the same responsibilities that protect Sin City Repeater Group, Inc., its charitable and educational purposes, and the Amateur Radio community it serves.
Lifetime Membership
Charter Members retain lifetime membership in Sin City Repeater Group, Inc., subject to the provisions of the bylaws.
Lifetime Voting Privileges
Charter Members retain lifetime voting privileges and are exempt from dues and assessments, consistent with Section 3(d) of the bylaws.
Recognition, Not Ownership
Charter status does not create ownership of corporate assets, entitlement to financial distributions, or a private financial benefit from Sin City Repeater Group, Inc.
Continued Responsibility
Charter Members remain subject to the bylaws, organizational policies, applicable law, and the disciplinary provisions governing membership. Discipline or expulsion for cause is governed by Article VIII.
A historical designation, not a rolling category
Sin City Repeater Group, Inc. continues to welcome new members, volunteers, technical contributors, donors, repeater sponsors, committee members, officers, and friends. The organization is stronger because new people continue to bring new ideas, expertise, energy, and resources.
Charter Membership is different. It identifies the individuals whose foundational contributions are specifically recognized in the bylaws. Someone may become an extraordinarily important member of Sin City Repeater Group, Inc. today without becoming a Charter Member, just as someone may serve in leadership without becoming one of the people who originally built the foundation.
This is not about diminishing anyone who came later. It is about preserving the history accurately and giving credit where that credit belongs.