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Storm restoration update
by Levi C. Maaia, K6LCM 06 Jan '23

06 Jan '23

Photos: https://www.sbarc.org/2023/01/06/systems-restoration-update/ The winter storm that blew into the South Coast during the late evening of January 4th likely precipitated the catastrophic failure of Tower #1 at SBARC’s Talanian Communications Facility that evening. Fortunately, SBARC members were on hand today to clear the debris, dismantle the fallen tower and restore many of the services that had been knocked out by the collapse. The crew was able return the UCSB remote receiver for the 146.79 repeater to service, restoring HT coverage to Goleta. However, the link to Santa Ynez Peak will need additional work to restore a reliable connection to the 145.18 repeater. The microwave data link to the Red Cross Club Station remains offline, however, a “Dishy” on loan from K6LCM is on the roof of the TCF Building 501 providing connectivity to the site courtesy of SpaceX’s Starlink constellation.

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Saw horses
by Bill Talanian 05 Jan '23

05 Jan '23

TO: All From: Bill Talanian IMMEDIATE NEED Saw horses required. But call first on 79 to see how many are required. Bring to La Vigia. 1633 La Coronilla. (Top of Carillo Hill take a left. Blind driveway 1/4 mile up the road)

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Re: [Sbarc-list] [Digital] Temporary Fix / All Star Link
by Levi C. Maaia, K6LCM 05 Jan '23

05 Jan '23

The 146.79 / 146.19 repeater is on the air and working. If you can hit that repeater directly, you should be fine. My remote base is setup only for folks who cannot reach the .79 repeater over the air. On January 5, 2023 at 18:25:16, kg6wxc Eric (kg6wxc(a)gmail.com) wrote: We're going simplex on 146.790 also? I just heard you and Dennis on there! On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 6:22 PM Levi C. Maaia, K6LCM <k6lcm(a)maaia.com> wrote: Hi Folks, We are working on resolving the connectivity issues between the SBARC Hub repeater sites. For those of you who have All Star hot spots or other access to the All Star Link network, you can access my personal remote base set to the K6TZ 146.79 repeater by linking to node # 42437. I will try to keep this up as a TEMPORARY fix during nets until we get the SBARC Hub back online. Please contact me with any issues. LCM Levi C. Maaia, K6LCM Director at Large | K6TZ Trustee Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club Santa Barbara Wireless Foundation a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public benefit corporation

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Temporary Fix / All Star Link
by Levi C. Maaia, K6LCM 05 Jan '23

05 Jan '23

Hi Folks, We are working on resolving the connectivity issues between the SBARC Hub repeater sites. For those of you who have All Star hot spots or other access to the All Star Link network, you can access my personal remote base set to the K6TZ 146.79 repeater by linking to node # 42437. I will try to keep this up as a TEMPORARY fix during nets until we get the SBARC Hub back online. Please contact me with any issues. LCM Levi C. Maaia, K6LCM Director at Large | K6TZ Trustee Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club Santa Barbara Wireless Foundation a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public benefit corporation

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Diablo down
by Bill Talanian 04 Jan '23

04 Jan '23

ATTN: All amateurs Diablo Peak is totally down due to lack of battery power. DO NOT use any systems. When systems recover please remove multicast system connects if control returns. Bill Talanian

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towers collpase in South Dakota due to ice storm
by Ken Alker 29 Dec '22

29 Dec '22

KDLO towers collapse in Garden City due to ice storm (keloland.com) <https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/kdlo-towers-collapse-in-garden-cit…>

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Re: [Sbarc-list] SBARC-list Digest, Vol 231, Issue 4
by Michael Wapner 22 Dec '22

22 Dec '22

Looks like 2X 4-1000’s for RF modulated by 2X 4–1000.; could be (2 x 2) 4-400’s; hard to tell from the photo. That’s similar to what I had when in N. Hollywood (K6SVQ) where I built w/ the help my HS electric shop teacher & a HAM neighbor RF engineer from Hughes AC. Drove the RF stage w/ a Viking II and the modulator (4 810’s); yes AM days, w/ an old Hi-Fi amp, by replacing the output transformer. The HV transformer was from a pole pig supplied by a friend of my Dad's from L.A. Dept. of Water & Power & the modulation transformer was army surplus I found in an army-navy store in San Fernando. The plate transformer (w/o oil-filled case) resided in a plastic barrel outside the shack because there was no room for it inside as the shack was a 5’ x 12’ storage room off the garage w/ the big PA & PS in a rack at one end of the room, a Viking desk KW in the middle against the long wall and the other small end was the op. stn. w/ a Gonset GSB-100, Halicraft SX-101A, borrowed Collins 75S1, etc. Yes there was room only for one person inside to sit. Antennas at that time was a HB 5-el 20M yagi @ 72’ & 5-el 15M yagi 10’ above that on an old guyed Tristao crank-up. Note the rotor has a unique story of it’s own: When 15+, I was visiting an aunt & uncle in Long Beach and there was a 60’ telephone pole w/ a 3-el 20 & a 3-el 10 yagi over a “strange looking box” on top of the pole. I knocked on the door and the woman who answered said that the pole and antennas were of the previous owner and they had no means of removing it. I asked if I removed the pole and antennas could I have it. She called her husband and they both said YES as long as we did no damage to their property. I brought my Dad (general contractor) over to look and he was skeptical but said maybe. Note, at that time I had a DX35, an HQ-100 and a Gotham 3-el 15M yagi on a telescoping push-up 30’ mast that I rotated w/ a pipe wrench. Well, the next week my Dad told me he’d supply two laborers to do the work and the following Saturday, my Dad, his two guys & I went to LB, removed the two antennas, the “strange box” (an E.F. Johnson rotor) and cut down the pole in 2’ pieces w/ a chain saw. Years later I sold that rotor for $1000 to a guy in Palos Verdes. You can see the same model rotor as you drive by on the 405 S. adjacent to Olympic Blvd; what used to be Henry Radio! The 10M yagi was 6-el on another old guyed 54’ tower w/o any mfg. identified that I had bought for $40 from a junk yard. Some of the tower guy wires were tied to the bases of LA Dept, of W & P poles. (Note: I had the W & P noise guy out multiple times who arranged for spraying of HV insulators on the poles in the area and there was never a word of complaint from anybody in the crews.) For 40M, I had two phased verticals, base loaded, elevated 10’ off ground in trees w/ relays to switch orientation from broadside to end-fire. 80M had two dipoles, each fed at the top of the 72’ tower sloping to trees w/ a NE/SW or NW/SE orientation relay at the apex. After high school & the first two years of college, I was married, lived in an apt. in Van Nuys and had sold off all the antennas, towers, the big PA & radios. After completing college, had a design engineering job @ Ocean Technology & we bought a tri-level house in Northridge, got emersed in water skiing, sailing, & 2 children. When bussing of children began we moved to SB and ultimately got re-involved w/ HAM radio. No tower but the 4’ x 4’ x 10’ deep chunk on concrete still sits in our rear yard here; another story! > On Dec 22, 2022, at 4:27 AM, 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. FREE Collins 820D-2 1kw AM transmitter - must pick up in > Wisconsin. . . (Dave Schmidt) > 2. Re: FREE Collins 820D-2 1kw AM transmitter - must pick up in > Wisconsin. . . (Ken Alker) > 3. Re: FREE Collins 820D-2 1kw AM transmitter - must pick up in > Wisconsin. . . (Jay Hennigan) > 4. Re: FREE Collins 820D-2 1kw AM transmitter - must pick up in > Wisconsin. . . (Dave Schmidt) > 5. Re: FREE Collins 820D-2 1kw AM transmitter - must pick up in > Wisconsin. . . (Jay Hennigan) > 6. Re: FREE Collins 820D-2 1kw AM transmitter - must pick up in > Wisconsin. . . (Jordan) > 7. Re: FREE Collins 820D-2 1kw AM transmitter - must pick up in > Wisconsin. . . (Jay Hennigan) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 18:04:49 -0800 > From: Dave Schmidt <dgschmidt(a)gmail.com> > To: "List, SBARC" <sbarc-list(a)lists.netlojix.com> > Subject: [Sbarc-list] FREE Collins 820D-2 1kw AM transmitter - must > pick up in Wisconsin. . . > Message-ID: > <CAD1xK9Sqp6kduD9SdEuq_Kt_zSfxayU+DtORcPT_7F87pe_7Bw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > https://antiqueradios.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=421303&p=3601514 > > in Manitowoc Wisconsin. . . > > Dave > AI6VX >

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FREE Collins 820D-2 1kw AM transmitter - must pick up in Wisconsin. . .
by Dave Schmidt 21 Dec '22

21 Dec '22

https://antiqueradios.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=421303&p=3601514 in Manitowoc Wisconsin. . . Dave AI6VX

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Satellite ARC Swapfest
by Marvin Johnston 17 Dec '22

17 Dec '22

According to their website, this year the Satellite ARC Fathers Day Swapfest will be held at the Newlove Picnic grounds! More information is on their website at: https://www.satellitearc.com/swapfest.html Marvin, KE6HTS

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Incredible rainfall rate very early Sunday morning
by Dave Schmidt 12 Dec '22

12 Dec '22

Saturday's rain for me in Ventura did not start falling at measurable quantities until 8pm. By midnight we got 0.7". Very early Sunday morning, I could hear it dumping outside for a while but I was all cozy in my bed so I didn't get up. Was very surprised to see the total of Saturday and Sunday of 3.04" !! Much higher than anyone near me on the automated rainfall website got. I have a cup style 'manual' rain gauge on a fence that I use to verify what my automated rain gauge says, and it too showed the same amount. Take a look at the rate of rain I got. 1.6" rainfall rate an hour! Incredible! Dave AI6VX [image: image.png]

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