SBARC-list May 2025

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Wings Over Camarillo Airshow Aug 17-18 call for volunteers
by Avi Carmi 16 Jun '25

16 Jun '25

Hi All, The 2024 Wings Over Camarillo Airshow is coming up Sat-Sun August 17-18 If you have volunteered in previous years, there should be no (or minimal) changes from last year. As in previous years, I am acting as the volunteer coordinator, and Mike Felio will be the comm lead during the show Each day is divided into two shifts, a morning shift and an afternoon shift There are two main types of jobs, the roaming color teams (and rovers), and the net control (and comm lead / asst comm lead) jobs Plus a show director "shadow" job, which should be a very exciting close-up assignment, you will have two radios: a commercial show radio and your ham radio. The Shadow will follow the show director and provide communication support to the show director. You are welcome to sign up for two consecutive Shadow shifts and stay with the show director for the entire day. The net control (and comm/asst comm lead) will be based in the comm trailer, slightly longer shifts to ensure overlap between morning and afternoon shifts The showgrounds is divided into four sectors A/B/C/D (maps showing the four sector and grids will be provided) There are four two-person color teams (blue/green/purple/red), each two-person color team will cover one of the show sectors for an hour and then move to a different sector (as instructed by net control), allowing each color team to enjoy all sectors of the show. The rover position is similar to color teams, but roves solo and not limited to single sector at a time and can rove over the entire show, also acting as a "gofer" and as backup for any color team member who might need to take a break The color teams and rovers will stroll through the showgrounds enjoy the static displays and the airshow above, while providing eyes/ears/comms Plan on four hours of walking in the hot August sun. Bring your HT, headset/earpiece, a yellow shirt, communications vest (if you have one), hat, sunscreen, food/snacks, water, etc Free entrance to the show, parking, t-shirt, pancake breakfast, lunch, and all the water and soft drinks you can drink If you volunteer for a morning shift, you may stay and enjoy the show in the afternoon, and vice versa come early enjoy the show in the morning then work your afternoon shift You may sign up for both morning and afternoon shifts and/or for both days or for different job types. This year's volunteer registration requires multiple steps and forms to fill in and submit 1- to start the registration process, please go to: https://woc.volunteerlocal.com/ 2- Click on "sign up now" button 3- Enter your first name and email on the first form The volunteerlocal site does not use passwords, instead it sends a unique login link to your email address, please double check your email address If you enter a wrong email address, you will not get the confirmation message with the login link (if this happens, please contact me) 4.a - If the profile associated with the email you entered is already in the system you will be taken directly to the sign up page (step 5) 4.b- Otherwise, it will prompt you to enter more profile details on the next form Enter the rest of the required details (for group select "Ham Radio Operators") and click "Complete Application" 5- The ham radio jobs/shifts are password protected, therefore, on the sign up page you will NOT see the ham radio jobs unless you enter the password *ham73* 6- once you enter the *ham73* password, you will see a yellow "Ham Radio Operators" button but both days and all shifts will be in a "collapsed" mode 7- click on the yellow button, then click on the date(s) to expand the list of available jobs/shifts for each day 8- Select the jobs/shift(s) you would like to volunteer for. If you do not see a job/shift, it means that it was already taken 9- scroll to the bottom of the page and click to check the disclaimer acceptance checkbox and fill in your name, then click "sign up to volunteer" 10- You should receive a confirmation email from Robert Bush who is the new administrator of the Wings Over Camarillo volunteerlocal website Please keep this message handy since it includes an "Open your profile" button at the bottom. if you do not get a confirmation email, or if you have any q uestions/concerns/problems, please contact me directly at avi(a)carmi.us or 805-616-2636 (do not reply to Robert) but wait, there's more... This year, the volunteer details form (step 4b above) does NOT include your call sign, even though it is a required field... To enter your call sign, you have to go to "your profile" page: A.1.a- click on "open your profile" button (from the email at step 10 above) and it should take you directly to your "volunteer application" page (step A.2 below) A.1.b- or go back to https://woc.volunteerlocal.com/volunteer/ and click on "View your profile and check your shifts" button then, if you are already "logged in" it should take you directly to your "volunteer application" page (step A.2 below) otherwise, if you are not "logged in", the "View your profile and check your shifts" button will take you to "Access your profile" page, fill in your email address and click submit the system will then send you an email message from Robert Bush, click on the profile link in the email message, which should take you directly to your "volunteer application" page (step A.2 below) A.2- the "volunteer application" page will show your name and current shifts A.3- finally, to enter your call sign, click on the "Your profile" button next to your name, which should pull down a form with your current information A.4- fill in your call sign, check the rest of your information for accuracy and then click "save information" you can repeat step A.1.a/b at any time to get back to step A.2 where you can view your current shifts, sign up for additional shift(s), cancel existing shifts, or update your profile. Please contact me directly if you have any question or issues, or if you enter a wrong/typo in your initial email address (since this will send confirmation to a non-existing email address... ) More details about the event, such as the location of comm trailer, map, parking passes (and where to park), entrance procedure, how to get the breakfast tickets, etc, will be sent to registered volunteers via the volunteerlocal website as these details become available. Since I might not have sent this to every possible mailing list that I have access to, please feel free to forward this to any other ham radio operator, and/or any other ham clubs/groups/organizations that you are a member of. Thanks, -avi -- avi(a)carmi.us 805-616-2636 K6AVI https://avicarmi.com

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2-Meter SSB Net Breakfast this Saturday May 31
by n6kth n6kth.com 29 May '25

29 May '25

Hi friends: If you're not busy Saturday morning (5/31) we would love to have the pleasure of your company at the biannual Santa Barbara Two-meter SSB Net breakfast to be held at Cody's Cafe, 4898 Hollister Ave, starting at 9:00 AM. It's a good time to dine on good food and catch up on all things ham radio. We'd love to have you join us, and all are welcome! Ken Owen, N6KTH https://www.qrz.com/db/N6KTH

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Rod's Karaoke Tonight in SB
by Rod Fritz 28 May '25

28 May '25

Wherever I go, I sing karaoke. Tonight, I'm at The Cliff Room on the Mesa until midnight. Come on down. Watch what I can't do on ham radio. You will be pleasantly surprised. Regards, Rockin' Rod WB9KMO

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Video: Santa Barbara Is. Expedition
by Levi C. Maaia 26 May '25

26 May '25

Hi SBARC, I just posted a new video on our local radio expedition: https://youtu.be/tdjePa5cZW8?si=AMrcFHfKaQzpIkjv Last Monday, KA6KEN and I joined an Explorers Club expedition to Santa Barbara Island, the smallest and most remote in Channel Islands National Park. We brought radios, made contact with the mainland from the summit. 73, Levi C. Maaia, K6LCM levimaaia.com

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LXPedition to Santa Barbara Island tomorrow - UHF/VHF
by Ken Alker 19 May '25

19 May '25

Levi (K6LCM) and I (KA6KEN) will be on Santa Barbara Island Monday for about two hours and we'll do a little bit of ham radio operating while there. I don't know exactly when we'll land and how long it'll take us to hike up to a high spot, but I'm guessing we could be active as early as noon and as late as 2pm, but my best guess is 1pm if you want to be listening for us. The total amount of time active may be short if we don't have a pile-up :-) . You can earn IOTA (NA-066) and/or POTA (US-0014) credit. We'll be on the 2-meter national simplex calling frequency 146.520MHz for sure, but likely also on 446.000. We'll try some of the obvious repeaters too, but that won't earn you any credits. Ken

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D44ZZI Active 18.095 FT8 FH
by WARREN MYERS 06 May '25

06 May '25

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