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meeting website announcement for November club meeting
by Darryl Widman 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

Fascinating Presentation at Our November 18 SBARC Club Meeting Cristian Paun, WV6N, a proud member of the Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club, will honor us with a presentation on his very stealthy antennae that he has designed and uses at his home QTH in Lompoc. Like many among us who live in nice neighborhoods but have to put up with Home Owner Association (HOA) rules and regulations regarding antennae, Cristian didn't take it sitting down. He has devised ways to get around those discriminating rules and still works lots of DX. The loops shown above were featured in a paper written by WV6N that was published in the Nov 2011 issue of QST magazine. They are the only antennae at the WV6N QTH due to these HOA regulations. Want to find out more about these antennae? Come to our November meeting and get the whole story. Also at our November meeting, we will hold our annual Election of Officers and Directors for the year 2012. You may nominate yourself for a position on our board of directors or, with their willingness to serve the club for a year, nominate someone else at the club meeting. November is also when we hold our annual Home-Brew Night. Bring your entry and let's see whose gets the most oohs and aahs. Don't forget to bring some tasty goodies for the goodie table and also, rejoin SBARC for 2012 at the Membership Table with Harry, K6PDQ. Our club meetings are held at the Goleta Union School District, 401 N. Fairview Ave. in Goleta, right across the street from the Goleta Library. Doors open at 6:45pm and the meeting begins at 7:30 pm. Come early and bring a friend. ____________________________________________________________ 57 Year Old Mom Looks 27 Mom Reveals $3 Wrinkle Trick Angering Doctors... http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4ec5fdb49d81d1a561bst03vuc

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SBARC Wednesday Nets - Trivia Night!
by Michael＠NO6O.com 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

SBARC Wednesday Nets -- TRIVIA NIGHT! ------------------------------------- Beginning at 7:00 pm on the following linked repeaters: 146.79 MHz (La Vigia Hill) 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 -- !! TRIVIA NIGHT !! Hosted by Dave Milton, K6HWN 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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Handouts? Stop By and Say Hello! - The Santa Barbara International Marathon, Saturday 11/12/11
by Rod Fritz 11 Nov '11

11 Nov '11

Hello SBARC Members and Friends, Tomorrow, Saturday 11/12/11, SBARC will once again provide communications for the Santa Barbara International Marathon from about 7am to 1pm. Thanks to the many of you who have volunteered to help. (I think Rick might be able to use a little more help - contact rickwhtr(a)cox.net) I will be promoting SBARC in the lower parking lot of SBCC, near the stadium. The location will be obvious because I'm showing off our wonderful Rover. Please stop by and say hello if you're in the area. If you feel like it, I'd love to have you help me interact with the onlookers, telling them what we're doing for the event and inviting them to join our amateur radio ranks. If you have something that would be good to hand out, either send it to me by email or drop a few copies off tomorrow at the Rover. Enjoy the event. Rod Fritz, WB9KMO SBARC Outreach Committee Chair wb9kmo(a)sbarc.org 805-637-0985 P.S. A course map is attached. Here are some details you might want to know... General Information The Select Staffing Santa Barbara International Marathon, ½ Marathon and Elite Rehab Health & Fitness Relay are the pinnacle of achievement for elite athletes and everyday runners alike. On Saturday, November 12, 2011, runners from all over the United States and the world will set out to accomplish a personal dream in one of the most beautiful destinations in the world. Following are all the details participants need to make sure they are ready for race day. * Location, Start Time & Parking * Team Competition * Age Groups and Awards * Finish Line Festival Marathon Start Location: Dos Pueblos High School, 7266 Alameda Ave, Goleta, CA 93117 Start Time: 7:15 a.m. Parking Location: For those who wish to park their cars, Please park at UCSB, 522 University Rd, Santa Barbara, CA in Lot #18 off Mesa Rd and Ocean Rd and then board the shuttle busses to the start. Please note drop offs will be allowed at Glenn Annie and Cathedral Oaks intersection. Relay Start Location: Dos Pueblos High School, 7266 Alameda Ave, Goleta, CA 93117 Start Time: 7:15 a.m. Parking Location: At Dos Pueblos High School, in the dirt lot just east of the main driveway. This is the same driveway that is used to get to the baseball fields. ½ Marathon Start Location: Page Youth Center, 4540 Hollister Ave, Santa Barbara, CA, 93110 Start Time: 7:45 a.m. Parking Location: For those who wish to park, please park at UCSB, 522 University Rd, Santa Barbara, CA in lot #18 off Mesa Rd and Ocean Rd Please note drop offs will be allowed at the start of the Half Marathon. Age Groups & Awards Marathon & ½ Marathon Participants will compete in the following Male and Female Age Groups: 19 & Under, 20-29, 30-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, 75 and over. Custom Awards will be presented to the top three finishers in the above Age Groups Elite Rehab Health & Fitness Relay Team Competition Awards will be presented to the top 5 Health & Fitness relay teams. Finish Line Festival As soon as you cross the finish line, celebrate your achievement at the Finish Line Festival located at the gorgeous Santa Barbara City College. The outdoor celebration features live entertainment, food and beverages (some available for purchase) from 8:45 a.m. 1:30 p.m. provided by Santa Barbara's own unique, cool, hip and delicious Food Trucks. _____ From: JimRAllen(a)aol.com [mailto:JimRAllen@aol.com] Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 10:24 AM To: Selected Recipients Subject: Radio operators for Santa Barbara International Marathon 11-4-2011 Fellow Hams, I hope you can help us with this: On Saturday, November 12, 2011 the Santa Barbara International Marathon will be held. Rick, KG6VLB, and I are working on communications staffing. FIVE THOUSAND runners are expected, including those from all 50 states and 10 countries! A full marathon, half marathon and relay are involved. This is a big event and the more Ham operators we can place the better. Starting time on station is expected to be at 6:45am. The event organizers appreciate the real-time and wide-area coverage Amateur Radio provides and it gives us a chance to show one aspect of our usefulness to the community. A course map is included or you can visit http://www.sbimarathon.com/ for a map and more details. Please let me know by return email if you will be able to help with this important event. Thanks, Cheers & 73, Jim Allen, KF6HHX P.S. If I have emailed you before about this event please excuse the intrusion.

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Reminder of ARDF near Santa Barbara this Saturday
by Marvin Johnston 11 Nov '11

11 Nov '11

This email was sent by Joe Moell to the ARDF-SoCal listserver, and I'm reposting here in case anyone on this list is interested. The kits talked about are primarily the tape measure beam kit (if you already have an attenuator) and the complete tape measure beam kit (if starting from scratch) on my webpage at: http://www.west.net/~marvin I just checked the weather forecast, and it looks like the chances of showers are primarily before 10AM. Since this is primarily for people to get an introduction to transmitter hunting on foot, I'll have a short three transmitter course set out where I'll go out and show people the proper techniques to finding the transmitters. I won't be finding them myself (I know where they will be) but rather helping people to learn how to find them on their own. The frequency for the 3 transmitter course will be on 144.525 MHz, and the 5 transmitter course on 146.565 MHz. Thanks! Marvin, KE6HTS **************************************** The forecast is for a 30% chance of a few showers in the Santa Barbara are on Saturday, but we're still planning to have our ARDF session at Lake Los Carneros Park in Goleta. 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. If you need some one-on-one help to get started, just ask. Full-color orienteering maps will be available. If you don't already have the antenna/attenuator system for on-foot foxhunting on two meters with your ham radio handi-talkie or scanner, you can easily make it during this session. There will be a workshop for building kits for measuring-tape yagis and for 90 dB offset-type attenuators. If you're not an electronic technician, don't worry because there will be plenty of experts to help you. Kitbuilding and transmitter hunting is planned to 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. 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. The Santa Barbara marathon takes place on this day, so Los Carneros Road and its exit from the freeway may be closed until 10 AM or so. If that happens, we'll just start a little later than planned. Ham radio talk-in is on the WB6OBB repeater, 147.000(+) PL 131.8. A map to the location is at www.homingin.com 73, Joe Moell K0OV

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Stuff for Sale
by Marvin Johnston 11 Nov '11

11 Nov '11

Hi everyone, I'm starting (well, continuing) to clean house and sell off things that I no longer use. Included today are: $60.00 - Wilderness Radio QRP Transceiver SST, 30M w/KC1 Keyer $40.00 - Wilderness Radio PSK-80 Warbler, 80M PSK-31 Transceiver These are fully built with enclosures. The SST kit w/enclosure sells for $90.00 and the KC1 Keyer kit sells for $45.00. The Warbler kit has been discontinued, but sold for $45.00 without the enclosure. More about them at: http://www.fix.net/~jparker/wild.html http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/1137 Other misc. stuff includes: $75.00 - Kenwood TS-700G II, SSB/FM/CW/AM, w/manuals. Not tested but it appears to receive okay. $2 ea - N connector Bulkhead fitting, female both ends (10 avail.) Under the classification of What? $500 - Datastroyer CD-101, a NSA approved device to destroy CDs. It does this by removing the layer containing the data and converting it to a powder. Currently sells for $2241.65 and a used one on Amazon is listed for $799.00. If interested, give me a call at 687-8881. Thanks! Marvin, KE6HTS

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SBARC Wednesday Nets
by Michael＠NO6O.com 09 Nov '11

09 Nov '11

SBARC Wednesday Nets -------------------- Beginning at 7:00 pm on the following linked repeaters: 146.79 MHz (La Vigia Hill) 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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ARRL - Palm Springs Hamfest January 28, 2012
by Peter Reinzuch 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

Please pass on this info and attachment along to your Club's newsletter Editor for your next publication and mention it on your Net or the next meeting : ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ *ARRL sanctioned Palm Springs Hamfest!* January 28, 2012 opens 9:30- 4:30 PM --Entry fee only $2 RAFFLES all day long Over 25 Commercial Vendors such as HRO, CQ Magazine and Manufacturers like Elecraft, Alinco and others TBA; Swap Meet, Consignment sales bring your surplus gear and we'll sell it off for you, Food Concession, various how to Demos. no charge for Vendor or Swap Meet space ...we have a few commercial spaces and lots of swap meet space still available book early! --setup time for Swap Meet sellers 7-9 AM Special Events Station 7.2517 & 14.251 or check http://www.dxsummit.fi to spot us Presented by the Desert RATS Club of Palm Springs **see our Forum at http://desertrats.am for up to date information Ratpeater Talkin 146.940- PL 107.2 in Palm Springs or 146.520 (convoy frequency) Convoy of RV's from Quartzfest on January 27th headed by Gordon West! Last year over 700 happy Hams rendezvous at Palm Springs Hamfest hope to see you on January 28, 2012 Hours from 9:30AM to 4:30PM for more information go to our website http://desertrats.am email: PalmSprings.hamfest(a)gmail.com 4193 Mathew Drive, Palm Springs ARRL - Palm Springs Hamfest 2012 January 28, 2012 hosted by the Desert RATS Club , Palm Springs,CA --go to the Forum section at http://desertrats.am for up to date information or call Gary or Susie Boskovich at 760-321-6012

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Re: SBARC-list Digest, Vol 100, Issue 4
by mst56 05 Nov '11

05 Nov '11

Darryl, My attachment was scrubbed so I don't know what you said. Is this something that I can read on the club page? Michael Taylor WA6RQV On 11/4/2011 5:45 PM, sbarc-list-request(a)lists.netlojix.com wrote: > Send SBARC-list mailing list submissions to > sbarc-list(a)lists.netlojix.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.netlojix.com/mailman/listinfo/sbarc-list > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > sbarc-list-request(a)lists.netlojix.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > sbarc-list-owner(a)lists.netlojix.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of SBARC-list digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Electricity: Net Energy Metering bill (Darryl Widman) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 17:37:33 -0700 > From: "Darryl Widman"<auditron(a)juno.com> > Subject: [Sbarc-list] Electricity: Net Energy Metering bill > To:<sbarc-list(a)lists.netlojix.com> > Message-ID:<BBAFF247CED24EA29F3659962CECEDE9@precision330> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Skipped content of type multipart/alternative

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Electricity: Net Energy Metering bill
by Darryl Widman 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Perhaps you remember our guest speaker from our September 2010 SBARC club meeting. That would be Laura Rudison, Program Administrator, Net Energy Metering - Interconnection, Customer Solar & Self Generation with Southern California Edison. She was so kind as to forward the above attachment to me regarding what our dear California legislature has come up with. I thought it would be interesting to you. I don't expect many of you to read the whole thing, as I haven't, but you may find parts of it do pertain to your use of and billing for electricity in California. There will not be an exam so don't worry. Just enjoy some casual reading! 73, Darryl, KF6DI ____________________________________________________________ Penny Stock Jumping 3000% Sign up to the #1 voted penny stock newsletter for free today! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4eb4855a2e60d147166cst06duc

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Breaking the Amateur Radio Balloon Altitude Record
by Rod Fritz 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hello SBARC members and friends, Check out the following ARRL link for a California balloon news story... http://www.arrl.org/news/view/breaking-the-amateur-radio-balloon-altitude-re cord Mark Caviezel, who made an excellent balloon presentation at the September SBARC meeting is a member of Stratofox, the team that supported this launch. Congratulations on a new altitude record! Rod Fritz, WB9KMO wb9kmo(a)sbarc.org

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