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by auditron 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

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Take the Space Out of Our Call Signs
by auditron 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Take the Space Out of Our Call Signs by Darryl Widman, KF6DI By now, most of you have heard about Sacramento's inserting a space between characters of our Amateur Radio call signs on our license plates. If you care anything about how your call sign appears on your license plates, please do as I have done and contact our Governor and let him know what is on your mind. Another to contact is Senator Alan Lowenthal, California State Senate, 27th District, Chair, Transportation & Housing Committee 115 Pine Ave, Suite 430, Long Beach, CA 90802, Phone: (562) 495-4766 Fax: (562) 495-1876 Another very important person to contact is Assemblyman Pedro Nava, 35th Assembly District, Chair, Assembly Transportation Committee, Chair, Joint Legislative Committee on Emergency Services and Homeland Security District Offices: Santa Barbara County 101 W. Anapamu Street, Suite A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Tel: (805) 564-1649, Fax: (805) 564-1651 As you can tell by the letter below that I faxed to the Governor's office in Los Angeles, there are good reasons for us to be disturbed by what the DMV has been doing lately. Please be my guest and write a letter to the Governor and others, based upon my letter if you wish, and give them a piece of your mind. Sitting there doing nothing will result in exactly the same thing. If you have ham license plates now, please drive very carefully and don't lose them. If you wished to have them replaced you will be very surprised with what you receive. If you are expecting new ham plates for your vehicle, guess what you will be receiving! The Governor's fax number in Los Angeles is (213) 897-0319. Faxes have much more impact than e-mails. Please do it now. Thanks. Please visit the blog begun by Cliff Cheng, WW6CC, www.nospacehamplates.blogspot.com, for the complete story on this fiasco. January 8, 2008 Santa Barbara, CA 93108 Re: DMV putting a space in middle of Amateur Radio call signs on license plates Dear Governor Schwarzenegger, With all due respect, I feel that some of your department appointees are not carrying on in the best interest of your constituents, namely, the thousands of federally licensed Amateur Radio operators throughout our State of California. Like every other state in our country, California recognizes the fine service given by its Amateur Radio operators in times of disasters and emergencies by permitting them to display their FCC assigned call letters on their vehicle license plates, both front and rear. These specially assigned plates are instantly recognized by those who depend on the special talents of the "hams" to get the signal in and out when no other service is able to do it. They know that when all else fails, Amateur Radio gets through! Now, unlike every other state in the Union, California has made a decision that our assigned call letters are too difficult to work with where the state's DMV computers are concerned. For instance, my call sign is KF6DI. The DMV would break up my call sign and make it look like KF6 DI. Yes, the DMV has inserted a space somewhere between some characters and has destroyed the appearance of my call sign so that those who would instantly recognize it will now not recognize it for the importance that it holds. It appears that one gentleman in charge of the DMV is adamant about correcting his mistake and has gotten the entire Amateur Radio community up in arms! There is really no excuse for his behavior. The Red Cross, the Offices of Emergency Service, law enforcement and many others recognize our Amateur Radio call signs on our license plates with the call letters we were issued by the Federal Communications Commission. What gives this man the right to distort, confuse and destroy the integrity of a well-recognized identification? Please, Governor, use the powers of your good office and see to it that the Amateur Radio call sign license plate identification remains as it should and remove the inserted spaces the DMV computers are inserting. I know you can do it. Very sincerely, Darryl Widman, KF6DI Santa Barbara, California Director, Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club

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Re: [Sbarc-list] Homemade Vacuum Tubes
by Bob 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Beautiful! Thanks Michael. Years ago I was a glass blower doing lampwork like in the video, so I really enjoyed seeing his work. Bob KI6IEE At 11:05 AM 1/9/2008, Michael Reynolds wrote: >Perhaps others already know about Claude Paillard, F2FO. I found a link >to his web site, that includes a video showing him making his own vacuum >tubes. He makes the electrodes and other parts from scratch, molds and >fits the glass, and tests the performance. > >The URL is: http://paillard.claude.free.fr/ > >The video is near the bottom of the page. > >---Michael, NO6O > > >_______________________________________________ >SBARC-list mailing list >SBARC-list(a)lists.netlojix.com >http://lists.netlojix.com/mailman/listinfo/sbarc-list

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La Vigia weather
by Bill Talanian 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

The NWS predicted high winds last night. The interesting surprise was La Vigia Hill (Vic Trace Reservoir) had a peak gust reaching 50 mph from the NE. La Vigia is 470 ft high overlooking Santa Barbara and is the site of the K6TZ weather station. Most Recent Observations at January 13, 2008 - 7:03 PST Wind Gust 2 mph 18 at 0:06 2 at 7:03 50 at 23:03 0 at 7:35

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Homemade Vacuum Tubes
by Michael Reynolds 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Perhaps others already know about Claude Paillard, F2FO. I found a link to his web site, that includes a video showing him making his own vacuum tubes. He makes the electrodes and other parts from scratch, molds and fits the glass, and tests the performance. The URL is: http://paillard.claude.free.fr/ The video is near the bottom of the page. ---Michael, NO6O

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Free Tower and Antenna
by Michael Reynolds 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

My wife, Sue (KG6SZI), found an posting on CraigsList for a free tower and antenna. The text is below. The posting and pictures can be found here: http://santabarbara.craigslist.org/zip/514943725.html ---Michael, NO6O ====================================================== Free for pickup in santa barbara. Ham radio tower and antenna: - Tower is a crank-up Tri-ex, 30 feet tall, I have the tilt-over bottom bottom mounting plate. Biggest piece is 15 feet long (you need a big trailer). Likely needs recabling, at the least needs to be checked out before using. - Antenna is (I think) for 10, 15, and 20 meters. - Includes rotor motor, but no remote controller. I picked everything up disassembled, I have all the major pieces but no guarantees on anything - I've never used it, and you may need to do some work to get it all working, but the price is right.

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K6OYY SK
by Jay Hennigan 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

It is with great sadness that I report the passing of Jim Shepherd K6OYY. Jim had been a very close friend for many years. He passed away while walking his dog near Ellwood on Wednesday November 14. According to his wife Mary, no services are immediately planned. -- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay(a)impulse.net Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/ Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV

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SBARC Special Interest Group meeting November 16
by auditron 07 Nov '07

07 Nov '07

SBARC Special Interest Group Night November 16, 2007 A week from this coming Friday night, the Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club will be holding its annual election of officers. And as is the recent custom, we use that evening to put on display the favorite "stuff" of our Special Interest Groups (SIGs). Whether your interest is DX chasing, Amateur Television (ATV), Transmitter Hunting, communicating through Amateur Satellites, PSK-31, Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES), Antenna Construction, Automatic Position Reporting Systems (APRS), Weak Signal Communications (QRP), Microwave Mountain-Topping, or any other part of our great hobby that you just can't get enough of, bring over an example of it or an entire system and put it on display for the rest of us to look at and try to understand what it is all about. Grab a table in the room and use all of it or part of it to display your gear. Don't forget to make a little write-up about your equipment and place it near your things and don't forget your name and callsign on it as well. Tell about whether it is commercially made or you designed/built it, how old it is, where you have used it, what you have accomplished with it, etc. This should be a lot of fun. It always is. The SBARC meeting begins at 7:30 P.M. and is held at the Goleta Union School District, 401 N. Fairview Ave. and is directly across the street from the Goleta Library. Come early, set up your gear and shake some hands. If you are able, please bring some kind of refreshments for the group. Oh, do check out the Free-to-Good-Home table -- and bring some of your junque to add to it. Remember, if nobody takes what you brought, please remove it after the meeting. See you there! Darryl Widman, KF6DI Director, SBARC

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2007 US ARDF Championships Article
by Marvin Johnston 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

Here is a link to an article by Joe Moell about the Championships on the ARRL website: http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2007/10/23/1/?nc=1

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Fire Incident Websites
by kc6nah＠juno.com 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

http://www.sbcfire.com/er/incidents.html http://63.196.254.151/WildWeb/WCCALPF.htm http://www.inciweb.org/ http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_current http://38.101.117.146/fireline/ http://sat.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/satloop.php?wfo=lox&type=vis&size=1 _____________________________________________________________ Click to get a free auto insurance quote from top company at discount http://track.juno.com/s/lc?u=http://tagline.untd.us/fc/Ioyw6iifSLnuHefN1OkA…

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