SBARC-list March 2011

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Reminder: Next ARDF this Saturday near Santa Barbara
by Marvin Johnston 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

If you're planning on building an antenna and/or attenuator at the event this coming Saturday at Lake Los Carneros Park in Goleta, be sure to send an e-mail to marvin(a)west.net, so your kits will be waiting for you. Kitbuilding and transmitter hunting start promptly at 9:30 AM. Hunters may start out on the courses at any time until 1 PM. Courses close at 2:30 PM. Besides some easy fox transmitters just to help you learn and test your equipment, there will be a beginner-level international-rules course. The site area is slightly less than 140 acres. It is relatively flat, making it a good site for foxtailers of all skill levels. Full-color orienteering maps will be available. Bring any 2-meter RDF "sniffing" gear you have. If you don't have any, just bring your handi-talkie or scanner and come early for the building session. If you can't do that, come anyway, because a limited number of RDF sets will be available for loan. Also be sure to bring anything you'll need while going after those radio foxes, such as munchies, bottled water and sunscreen. Bring your own compass, protractor and pencil if you plan to use them for map marking. Make sure that all batteries are fresh. Directions to Lake Los Carneros: From US 101 about 8 miles west of downtown Santa Barbara, take the Los Carneros Road exit, head north about 1/4 mile and turn right into the Stow House parking lot. There should be plenty of free parking. Look for the orange-and-white orienteering flag. The building session and hunt start will be in the picnic area, just east of the railroad depot. For your GPS navigation system, the address is 300 North Los Carneros Road, Goleta, CA, 34.44416N, 119.85446W. A map to the site is at www.homingin.com Ham radio talk-in is on the K6TZ repeater, 146.79(-) PL 131.8 73, Joe Moell K0OV

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Technical Elmering Net
by Michael＠NO6O.com 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

Come Join the Technical Elmering Net ------------------------------------ Thursday, 8:00pm until 9:00pm On the following repeaters: 146.79 MHz (La Vigia Hill) 223.92 MHz (Santa Cruz Island) 224.08 MHz (La Cumbre Peak) Minus offset, PL 131.8 Hosted by Dave Milton, K6HWN All Amateur Radio-related topics are welcome. Bring your questions, experiences, and/or expertise. ---Michael, NO6O

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SBARC Wednesday Nets
by Michael＠NO6O.com 30 Mar '11

30 Mar '11

SBARC Wednesday Nets -------------------- Beginning at 7:00 pm on the following linked repeaters: 146.79 MHz (La Vigia Hill) 223.92 MHz (Santa Cruz Island) 224.08 MHz (La Cumbre Peak) Minus offset, PL 131.8 ---------------------------------- 7:00pm - 7:30pm -- Amateur Radio Newsline (www.ARNewsLine.org) 7:30pm - 8:00pm -- Weekly Club Net 8:00pm - 8:30pm -- Swap Net, hosted by Dave Milton, K6HWN ---------------------------------- Then, at 8:30pm, on 144.210 MHz, is the VHF Single Side Band Roundtable, typically hosted by Ken Owen, N6KTH. This popular roundtable is now in its fourth year. Some People start checking in early between 8:00pm and 8:30pm. For details, visit www.n6kth.com/vhf. ---Michael, NO6O

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Technical Elmering Net
by Michael＠NO6O.com 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

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FW: {WhiteStarAnnounce} SPEEDBALL-1 STILL GO FOR LAUNCH
by rod＠sbatv.org 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

If you're interested in Amateur Radio Balloons, check this out... - Rod, WB9KMO -----Original Message----- From: white-star-balloon-announcements(a)googlegroups.com [mailto:white-star-balloon-announcements@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dan Bowen Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 8:33 PM To: white-star-balloon-announcements(a)googlegroups.com Subject: {WhiteStarAnnounce} SPEEDBALL-1 STILL GO FOR LAUNCH All systems and teams have passed the 24-hour GO-NO-GO check. The SpeedBall-1 Amateur Trans-Atlantic Balloon is still GO FOR LAUNCH, in an attempt to be the first small amateur balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Launch date: Thursday March 24 2011 between 8PM and 11PM. (UTC/GMT Timezone is Friday March 25 at 0000 hours to 0300 hours) Spectators welcome! Here's a Google Map: http://bit.ly/fvx81r For driving directions, click on the green marker on the map, then select Driving Directions... Follow the flight at: http://track.whitestarballoon.com (however it will show our testing tonight on the map until just before launch. WE WILL NOT LAUNCH EARLY.) .Live Map of the balloon's flight path and future predicted path .Live Video and Audio Streams of LVL1 Mission Control in Louisville, KY, and the launch itself at SpacePort Indiana in Columbus, IN. .Live Chat with White Star and others watching the flight Flight could still be scrubbed if weather or other things change. Thanks, Dan Bowen Project Lead White Star Balloon

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heat sinks for sale
by Judy and Dave Arata 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

I have about 890 high heat dissipation finned aluminum heatsinks for sale. These heatsinks were custom made for a power supply I was developing when I had to abandon the design. These heatsinks are 5.6 inches long and 1.4 inches wide and 1.75 inches tall. I would like to sell these as a lot. Two years ago I paid $8.50 each + a $1200 one time tooling charge for them. They are still in original package as received. I have a drawing and photo available. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Let me know if you or anyone you know might be interested. David Arata KA9WMI <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Simi Valley CA ____________________________________________________________ Groupon&#8482 Official Site 1 ridiculously huge coupon a day. Get 50-90% off your city's best! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/4d8a644e1ecec310fdest04vuc

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SBARC Wednesday Nets
by Michael＠NO6O.com 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

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La Vigia equipment
by Bill Talanian 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

To: SBARC Listserver From: Bill Talanian Subject: La Vigia equipment All the electronics equipment at La Vigia is now stored outside pending installation of the new equipment shelter. Photo's courtesy of AE6BL.

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ARDF Practice April 2, Las Carnaros Lake
by Marvin Johnston 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

Hi everyone, It has been a year or so since we've put on an ARDF practice at Lake Las Carnaros. So we decided to do it there for our monthly So. California ARDF practice. Unlike most of our other practices where we pay for maps/etc., this one will be free. I just saw one error ... the main hunt will take place of 146.565 MHz. All the details on on the HomingIn website at: http://www.homingin.com/joemoell/sbarmap0411.html Thanks! Marvin, KE6HTS

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My 2 cents on Amateur Radio
by Andrew Seybold 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Daryl and members of the list- Amateur radio plays a daily part in many different types of wireless communications. Many public safety communications officials (APCO) members are hams and got their start in two-way radio Many organizations such as the Radio Club of America are made up of 50% or more hams Many commercial (cellular) engineers and technicians are hams Many of those who develop next generation two-way radio products for Motorola, Harris, Icom, Kenwood and others are Hams Ham radio serves as a gateway for many people and they go on to contribute to commercial and land mobile radio Over the years, technologies pioneered by hams have gone on to become important contributions to the land mobile radio industry Hams NEED to stay abreast of what is happening in the commercial and land mobile radio worlds-if we bury our heads in the sand that we won't be prepared to defend our spectrum and/or continue to contribute to the profession For my part- I started my career in commercial communications as a result of becoming a licensed ham radio operator in 1962 When I worked for RCA, GE, and Motorola communications companies as a sales engineer my being a ham opened many doors with communications directors in many cities and Counties and gave me a decided advantage of very competition Today I serve on several national committees-one for APCO, as vice-chair of the broadband committee, and one for the FCC as a part of the Public Safety Advisory Council for their ERIC (Emergency Interoperability center. Both of these committees have several ham radio operators on them and this gives us a common bond when working together. If it were not for ham radio I would never have gotten to this point in my life-it changed my idea of what I wanted to become and do for a living, Ham radio is a daily part of my life and to ignore the aspects of radio communications which do not seem relevant to the hobby is not advisable. For example, the speaker at the next Club meeting is, I am sure, going to discuss the threat to the 420-440 MHz hand band by a bill that is currently in Congress. But I doubt that he will address the following issues: 1) The current administration and FCC believe that narrowband communications is OLD technology and that only broadband is important going forward-never find the fact that no broadband technology supports ANY type of simplex communications, and most don't support one-to-many communications 2) In order to repurpose spectrum for broadband the FCC must FIND spectrum which is contagious. Most Land mobile radio systems are intermingled with each other-that is the police and fire channels co-exist with plumbers, trucking companies, taxi companies and others, so taking this spectrum back and converting it to broadband is not a very viable option. HOWEVER, HAMS do operate on contiguous spectrum in both the 144-148 and 420-450 bands. This makes it easy for the FCC to recommend that this spectrum be repurposed for commercial broadband systems. AND in the 420-450 bands hams are secondary to NTIA which controls the government spectrum and which has been ordered to work with the FCC to identify spectrum which can be repurposed for broadband use. 3) The section of this bill, HR607 that deals with the spectrum give back was crafted my ME-simply because the original bill wanted to take back 144-174 AND 450-512 MHz for broadband use. We have exactly 15 minutes to write this portion of the bill on the day it was introduced and so I came up with this compromise AND added some conditions which would insure this will never happen. The next two paragraphs of the bill deal with how and when the spectrum would be given back and it is virtually impossible for this to happen. a. The REASON this was put into the bill is that the bills need to be "scored" in order for it to make to the floor of the House-the higher the score the more importance the will have-AND once the scoring is done there will be many amendments to the bill. b. I have attached my slides which I will be presenting on Sat to a group in Ventura FYI. In Closing let me say that Ham radio is the foundation for the land mobile and commercial cellular world-AND to focus just on ham radio and NOT be aware of what is happening in the rest of the world of wireless is, to me, short sighted and dangerous. Andy W6AMS

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