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Sprint PCS
by Bill Talanian 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

Building can have cell phone antennas, Goleta council rules THOMAS SCHULTZ, NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER [] February 8, 2006 12:00 AM The Goleta City Council on Monday night unanimously approved four cell phone antennas for a commercial building on Calle Real, denying an appeal brought by neighbors concerned about aesthetics, health effects and the prospect of still more transmitters being "co-located" at the site housing offices and a Spectrum Health Club. Because they comply with national standards for acceptable levels of radio frequency radiation, federal law prohibited the council from ruling on the basis of safety. Hidden in a wall and faux pipe vent, the devices' appearance did not amount to visual blight, the council decided. "Our hands are pretty much tied," said Mayor Jonny Wallis, who joined colleagues in urging Sprint PCS to find another location in the face of public outcry. "This is not good for your business." Sprint agent David Thornburgh, of InfraNext Inc., said the antennas are safe and needed to improve cell reception along Highway 101. The devices will produce roughly 5 percent of the maximum radiation exposure allowed under federal law, according to Sprint. Mr. Thornburgh said the company investigated other locations, including the Fairview Shopping Center and a nearby church steeple, but none panned out. Opponents suggested putting the antennas atop the Fairview Avenue freeway overpass, but that is too difficult due to Caltrans restrictions, Mr. Thornburgh said. "To allow a maintenance vehicle to enter and exit here is not permissible." Andrew Seybold, a Santa Barbara wireless consultant supporting the project, noted Cottage Hospital has two rooftop cell sites with a third likely on the way. Hospital spokeswoman Janet O'Neill confirmed this Tuesday, describing a total 18 existing antennas from various companies, some dating back 10 years. Sprint attorney John Boat told the council it could not legally overturn the city zoning administrator's November approval of the Calle Real project based on fears of an "antenna farm" sprouting there. "Sprint cannot control who is going to show up next." Led by Verdura Avenue resident Bob Wignot, opponents of the project from the Fairview Avenue and Los Carneros Organized Neighborhoods (FALCON) complained of being caught in a bureaucratic time warp. Based on a rule inherited from Santa Barbara County when Goleta incorporated in early 2002, the antennas must be 50 feet or more from the closest residence. The county has subsequently made placement of a cell site within 300 feet of a home more difficult. Goleta is expected to strengthen its ordinance as well, though a change would come too late to affect the Sprint project. Among the most vocal opponents was Malva Avenue resident Jackie Chapman, who gathered 200 signatures from like-minded neighbors. "The whole situation brought our community together," she said Tuesday. "It made me really proud. Even the City Council members would have definitely voted for us. I'd like it known that it's pretty sad that you get lawyers in there and this big company and they can pretty much push a little town around." Even before the decision, Mr. Wignot offered a similar David-versus-Goliath portrayal of the situation. "FALCON was going to use the same attorneys at 'Dewey, Cheatem & How,' but they weren't available," he told the council. At least one health-conscious member plans to abandon the Spectrum fitness center for either another branch or a new gym. Brian Lee said he works out up to 18 hours a week, and noted the Calle Real club has a child care center. Ted Ontiveras, general manager of the Spectrum branch, said company executives attempted to communicate concerns about the project with the property owner. "It doesn't seem to have done much good." Sprint has permission through a conditional use permit for two arrays of two antennas each, in addition to a nine-inch global positioning system rooftop antenna and a rooftop air conditioning unit, plus associated equipment. An antenna array proposed for the roof will be in a cylinder designed to resemble a pipe vent, the other recessed into the wall of the southwest corner of the building. The off-white roof cylinder will be 12 feet tall and set back 25 feet from the nearest roof edge. e-mail: tschultz(a)newspress.com

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Suit Sat - no good here
by W1PR 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

According to http://science.nasa.gov/Programs/Pagebuilding/trackJPass.asp?zip=93111&lati… there will be no local Santa Barbara fly-overs of ISS and SuitSat during the couple of days the batteries are expected to last. In fact, ISS won't be over us again until Feb 14! 73, Paul, W1PR

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CCC Hearing
by Bill Talanian 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

HEARING NOTICE The planned Hearing by the California Coastal Commission at Chula Vista on February 8, 2006 will impact those Amateurs living within the boundaries of the Coastal Commission if the Commission votes in favor of the Amendment.

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SuitSat
by kc6nah＠juno.com 26 Jan '06

26 Jan '06

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/26jan_suitsat.htm?list845911 ___________________________________________________________________ Try Juno Platinum for Free! Then, only $9.95/month! Unlimited Internet Access with 1GB of Email Storage. Visit http://www.juno.com/value to sign up today!

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International Space Station info
by kc6nah＠juno.com 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

>From Ed Cifelli <kc7mwp(a)yahoo.com> Tue, Jan 17, 2006 11:50 AM In case someone is interested EdC Hi all, Not sure if you are interested in listening to the International Space Station. Enjoy 73 De Don KA9QJG The Space Station has been very active on weekends taking to Amateur Radio operators on 145.800 FM voice and data and 437.550 FM. In about 2 weeks they will be launching a Space Suit stuffed full of Amateur Radio equipment. It will be transmitting on 145.990 MHz FM 5k deviation. Voice Telemetry and A slow Scan TV image (a JPG). Here are some tips on the upcoming projects. ISS Amateur Radio Status: January 16, 2006 International Space Station ARISS SuitSat project status By Miles Mann WF1F, MAREX-MG News www.marexmg.org Manned Amateur Radio Experiment ARISS to activate a new hand launched educational satellite project from the International Space station. The new educational experiment is called SuitSat. The SuitSat project is onboard the International space station and is being prepared for activation very soon. The SuitSat project has a tentative activation date of February 2, 2006. The SuitSat activation will take place during the ISS crew space walk. SuitSat will be a hand launched by the ISS crew during the SpaceWalk. ALL NOTE !! Since we have just determined that the batteries in SuitSast may last only a few days, suggest prepare now to receive the 1st transmissions so as not to miss out on this Historical event !!! What is SuitSat: In short, the crew will toss an Old spacesuit out the airlock and let fly away as its own satellite. The Space Station crew have attached an Amateur Radio beacon transmitter to the spacesuit. The SuitSat project as it is called will broadcast telemetry and voice messages to earth for as long as the batteries last. Anyone with a simple FM receiver or police scanner should be able to hear the signals from SuitSat as it orbits around the earth 15 times a day. For more specific details on the SuitSat project, please review the AMSAT and related links below. Additional information on SuitSat at the AMSAT web pages. http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/articles/SuitSat/ ARISS SuitSat Details http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/articles/BauerSuitsat/index.php ARISS video on SuitSat September 2005 mms://media.wmfd.com/amsat/SuitSat.wmv http://www.rac.ca/ariss/Suitsat%20Rev%20D.pdf SuitSat project Duration: The Reason it is important for people to get ready to Monitor the SuitSat project is because this is a short duration experiment. This is the first version of this type of project, and it will be running on Batteries only. The current expected life of the SuitSat project is approximately 2 to 6 days. If you delay in setting up your station you may miss out on this educational Experiment. Voice Telemetry: The SuitSat project will be transmitting on 145.990 MHz FM and will consist of: Voice Telemetry, giving Mission Time, Suit Temperature and Battery Voltage Voice Greeting messages in multiple languages One SSTV image The whole process will repeat every 9 minutes until the batteries discharge. It is recommended that you have an audio recorder handy to record the telemetry information. The ARISS team may be collecting some of the data from individuals to help monitor the status of the project. Schools and Science: School systems with existing out side VHF antennas or the ability to set up a temporary out side receive antenna are welcome to listen in and collect telemetry data. The students will enjoy listing to the voice telemetry and tracking the position of the unique satellite. They may even hear one of the ISS crew talking to amateur radio stations on 145.800 MHz FM. SuitSat Transmitter: The SuitSat transmitter is a small hand held radio, similar to a WalkiTalki. The Kenwood TH-K2 will transmit a 1 watt FM signal from SuitSat. The current frequency for SuitSat is 145.990 FM Downlink only (There is no uplink for this satellite). With a simple out side antenna and a simple VHF receiver or police scanner, you should be able to hear SuitSat when the satellite passes over your state. ARISS is also planning on using the Kenwood D700 Transceiver on ISS to Rebroadcast the SuitSat signal on 437.800 MHz FM. This will allow you to hear SuitSat while ISS is in range of your station. If you have already have been successful in working the Packet station or talked to the ISS crew on 2-meter voice, than you already have most of what you need. SSTV (Slow Scan TV ): SSTV is a way Amateur Radio stations send JPG still images around the world. We use an audio format we call SSTV. The SuitSat project will transmit Telemetry, Pre-Recorded Voice messages and one SSTV image. The whole process will repeat approximately every 9 minutes. (Robot 36 format). What's left is to connect your computer to the speaker of your radio and some SSTV decoding software, such as ChromaPix http://www.barberdsp.com/ or similar software. Here are just two of the many Share-Ware SSTV applications on the market. There may be many more. W95SSTV by Silicon Pixels http://www.barberdsp.com/w95sstv/w95dload.htm MMSSTV http://mmhamsoft.ham-radio.ch/ There are also many High quality pay software applications that offer many more features, such as multiple windows that allow you to simultaneously receive an image while preparing your next image that you want to transmit. CPIX http://www.barberdsp.com/ What is Slow Scan TV? On this web page you will find many links to help you learn more about Slow Scan TV http://www.marexmg.org/fileshtml/sstvlinkpage.html Tips on how to use ISS, SSTV, Packet and Voice http://www.marexmg.org/fileshtml/howtouseiss.html Location of Hardware on ISS This link will show you images of some of the amateur radio hardware already installed on ISS http://www.marexmg.org/fileshtml/radiohardware.html Marexmg Web page http://www.marexmg.org ___________________________________________________________________ Try Juno Platinum for Free! Then, only $9.95/month! Unlimited Internet Access with 1GB of Email Storage. Visit http://www.juno.com/value to sign up today!

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US Tower For sale
by Andrew Seybold 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

Folks, being a club member (W6AMS), but not knowing if this is the appropriate place for this posting I will post it here and if I should not have done so I assume that someone will let me know. I have a US Tower Model TX-455 crank up tower for sale (55' high when fully extended). It is virtually new and I modified it to have cross braces at both the bottom and mid-levels, see photo. It comes with a brand new base assembly, all manuals, and the tower. I put it up about six months ago, but never got it into service. My neighbors were upset about it and they have purchased a new motor driven version of the same tower for me. This tower is sitting on the ground, ready for transport. The list price for this tower is: just about $2K, Texas Tower is selling it, today for $1899. plus shipping. I am asking $1000. obo, you come get it. If you are interested please all me at 805-898-2460, the tower is located near Cliff and Las Positas in Santa Barbara Tower in the lowered position showing side arms: Andy Seybold, W6AMS

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Amgen Tour of California
by mkwan＠silcom.com 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

I was recently at a meeting of the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition and was told they're looking for volunteer course marshalls for the inaugural "Tour of California" sponsored by Amgen in late February. There will be professional bicycle racing teams on this tour. I don't have Hubert's email address so I'm sending it to the list to see if SBARC is able to help. Here is the website for the tour: http://www.amgentourofcalifornia.com/route.html Michael Kwan

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Free tower
by Jay Hennigan 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Spotted this on Craigslist. http://santabarbara.craigslist.org/zip/123711424.html -- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Administration - jay(a)west.net NetLojix Communications, Inc. - http://www.netlojix.com/ WestNet: Connecting you to the planet. 805 884-6323

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antenna party washout
by W1PR 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Last weekend's rain and wind forced a postponement of the antenna party. If anybody who couldn't make it last weekend because of the holiday would like to help me for a half hour or so (I hope that's all) to get antennas up on the tilt over mast I would sure be appreciative! We can do it either Saturday or Sunday around 1 PM, wx permitting. Please email or call (967-4867). MNI TNX & 73 de Paul, W1PR

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Diablo video
by Bill Talanian 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Inspiring New Year picture from Diablo Peak, Santa Cruz Island, after the stormy weather this weekend. Picture shows the 5.8 GHz grid antenna installed by Thorsten von Eicken, N6TVE, on our Dec 17 visit to Diablo. To view 10 minute updates of 9 camera positions from Diablo Peak go to: <http://www.diablo.sbarc.org/imageview.cgi> Camera globe has cracks, hopefully it will be replaced this month. Emacs!

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