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OES Test Wednesday
by Bill Talanian 21 Aug '17

21 Aug '17

QST Folks This coming Wednesday, 23 Aug., there shall be a County wide OES exercise starting at 0845 until 1130 AM under the auspices of the Office of Emergency Management. We ask that the 146.790, 145.180 and 224.08 repeaters be free of itinerant traffic during the traffic periods. The 146.790 and 145.180 repeaters shall remain Unlinked during this period. Following the 0845 check-in there will be two traffic periods. One at 0915 and one at 1030. In any interimperiod please contact Net Control for short contacts. Thanks all for your cooperation. Bill Talanian

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Eclipse photo from Idaho
by Levi C. Maaia - K6LCM 21 Aug '17

21 Aug '17

Total eclipse photo from Sun Valley Idaho. You can see the star Regulus at 7 o'clock from the Sun in the bottom left. Levi, K6LCM

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Solar Eclipse Info
by Levi C. Maaia - K6LCM 19 Aug '17

19 Aug '17

Monday 8/21 is the Great 2017 Solar Eclipse. While Santa Barbara won't be in the path of totality, viewers throughout California will be treated to a partial eclipse of at least more than 50%. Attached is a graphic showing the timeline for the start and peak of the eclipse in SB. If you do go out there to view it on Monday morning, be certain that you have proper eye protection. Santa Barbara Electronics Supply may still have some NASA-approved eclipse glasses in stock locally. A #14 welder's glass is also appropriate protection but this dark shade is not very common and likely not what is in that welding helmet in your garage unless specifically ordered. If you are not sure, don't risk it. It may be tempting to look at the sun given it will be significantly dimmer than normal however you will damage your eyes without proper protection. NASA Television will air a four-hour show, Eclipse Across America, with unprecedented live video of the celestial event, along with coverage of activities in parks, libraries, stadiums, festivals and museums across the nation, and on social media. Read more about the Eclipse at eclipse2017.nasa.gov including more information about how to safely view it locally and streaming online.

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I Recommend This Noozhawk Article (fwd)
by Ken Alker 17 Aug '17

17 Aug '17

>From Noozhawk.com: Crews Respond to Rescue Man from 120-Foot Radio Tower Near Orcutt http://www.noozhawk.com/article/crews_respond_to_rescue_man_from_120_foot_r…

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New FCC form 605
by Bill Talanian 11 Aug '17

11 Aug '17

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: New FCC form 605 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 22:07:39 +0000 From: Andrew Seybold <aseybold(a)andrewseybold.com> To: Now to be used for ship, Aircraft, Amateur, Restricted and Commercial Operator and General Mobile Radio Services (GMRS) WOW one form for all https://blog.npstc.org/2017/08/07/fcc-amends-applicant-form/ cid:image001.jpg@01CA5969.2F1EB460 aseybold(a)andrewseybold.com <mailto:aseybold@andrewseybold.com> PLEASE NOTE NEW ADDRESS AND CONTACT INFORMATION Andrew Seybold, Inc. 16402 N. 40^th Place Phoenix, AZ 85032 Office Phone: 602-788-1530 Fax: 602-992-0814 Cell phone remains the same www.andrewseybold.com <http://www.andrewseybold.com/>

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SBARC Whittier Fire Update
by Levi C. Maaia, K6LCM 10 Jul '17

10 Jul '17

Whittier Fire Update By Levi K6LCM | https://www.sbarc.org/2017/07/09/whittier-fire-update/ | Club News, Featured Live camera view from UC San Diego’s High Performance Wireless Research & Education Network (HPWREN) looking west from Santa Ynez Peak As a reminder, all amateurs are welcome to participate in ongoing discussion about the Whittier Fire on SBARC repeaters. Please keep transmissions short (less than 10-15 seconds) unless you have urgent traffic. Always yield to stations with urgent traffic and leave long pauses between transmissions for breaking stations. Whittier Fire PDF incident plans distributed at the 1400 press conference on Sunday. Includes frequencies to be used: 070917_iap_day | 070917_iap_night The County of Santa Barbara is posting official updates on the Whittier Fire on its website. Look for the live streams at these You Tube channels (option 1 or option 2), from UC San Diego cameras atop Santa Ynez Peak as well as more still imagery. Additionally, this unofficial source has more images as well as weather data and more links to useful fire information. Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club repeaters on Santa Ynez Peak have power at this time. The 145.180 MHz repeater on Santa Ynez Peak remains linked via a microwave path to 146.790 MHz on the Santa Barbara Mesa and is functioning as the club’s main channel for communications related to the fire. The WB6OBB 147.000 repeater on Broadcast Peak is off the air along with most broadcast stations at that location. It is unknown as of this update if those outages are due solely to the availability of power at that site or because of damage to the actual facilities there. Many photos of the fire can be found on Twitter searching the hashtag #WhittierFire. I am suggesting that members of our community with photos to share via Twitter tag them with this hashtag for easy searching. For live updates from radio amateurs observing the fire and monitoring emergency frequencies around the county, listen to a live audio stream of SBARC’s linked repeaters. Air Command tactical frequencies with local air tanker traffic: These frequencies are simplex so an external antenna will help with reception. Air Tac 02: 169.150 MHz FM Air Tac 05: 167.950 MHz FM Levi C. Maaia, K6LCM www.levi.maaia.com +1.805.604.5384

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SBARC July General Meeting: DMR Radio Presentation
by Levi C. Maaia 05 Jul '17

05 Jul '17

*SBARC General Club Meeting* *Friday, July 21, 2017 @ 7:30 PM* *401 N. Fairview Ave. in Goleta* Imagine sitting in your living room using an inexpensive hand-held radio and making crystal clear, static free contacts throughout California, the United States, and the WORLD! This is not only possible, but it’s easy to do using Digital Mobile Radio (DMR). And, we’re doing this now, right here in Santa Barbara! This month, SBARC hosts a special presentation by *Michael Rickey, AF6FB* on the new and quickly growing DMR digital voice mode. Michael will give us a demonstration on how DMR works and explain how the PAPA system is supporting a build-out of DMR repeaters in Southern California, making it easy to stay connected to the network throughout our region. DMR is unlike most other digital voice modes used on VHF/UHF FM in amateur radio as it is supported by several major radio manufacturers including several low-cost imports commonly used by amateurs. DMR networks can be accessed from repeaters here in Santa Barbara and also through home-brew and *professionally built hotspots* <http://www.grapevineamateurradio.com/store/?model_number=Openspot1>. You can get on the air with DMR with a *Tytera MD-380 HT for as little as $80* <https://www.gigaparts.com/tyt-md-380.html?&utm_source=EMAIL&utm_medium=MD38…> and access thousands of talk-groups around the world and even chat with fellow SB hams dabbling in digital on our very own SBARC DMR talk-group. Most DMR repeaters can access the same talk-groups available on any other repeater. So no mater where you travel, you can radio home. DMR also uses TDMA to support multiple users per FM repeater pair and at 12.5 kHz wide, it is far more efficient than traditional analog wide-band FM. *SBARC General 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 7:00 PM and the meeting starts at 7:30 PM. Put the date on your calendar and bring a guest!* *[image: Inline image 2][image: Inline image 1]* *Michael Rickey, AF6FB*

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The AllStar & EchoLink Playground is Now Open!
by Levi C. Maaia, K6LCM 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

The SBARC Telecommunications Services Committee has been hard at work rebuilding the club’s Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) repeater systems. As part of the completion of the second phase of this project, the 70cm repeater VoIP playground is now open! Both AllStar Link and EchoLink systems are supported for incoming and outgoing link connections on the K6TZ 446.400 repeater. Local amateur stations can control the node over using DTMF commands to link to repeaters around the globe. Many hams may be familiar with EchoLink and IRLP, two mature ham radio VoIP systems that permit node-to-node and node-to-conference server connections. AllStar Link is a newer and very powerful radio linking system based on the open source telephone PBX software Asterisk. The AllStar network has grown tremendously over the past few years and lends itself very well to experimentation. There is a new section on the SBARC website with a short primer on the new VoIP system including complete documentation of the DTMF commands used to control the 70cm node. Read more and start experimenting in SBARC VoIP playground! Thanks in particular to Ludo, K6LUD for his work to become our resident AllStar Link and Asterisk guru! Levi C. Maaia, K6LCM Co-Chair, SBARC Telecommunications Services Committee www.levi.maaia.com +1.805.604.5384

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New System Fusion Repeater Frequency
by Levi C. Maaia, K6LCM 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

SBARC has a new open Yaesu System Fusion (YSF) repeater on a digital repeater test pair located at the Club’s La Vigia Hill Mesa site in Santa Barbara! You need not be a member of SBARC to use this digital-only repeater. Anyone with access to a System Fusion radio available may tune to the K6TZ YSF test pair: YSF Repeater Transmits / You Listen: 449.46250 YSF Repeater Listens / You Transmit: 444.46250 Signal and coverage reports are welcome. Please email the telecom team using the form at: https://www.sbarc.org/contact-us/ Please note: the WB6OBB 449.400 repeater (formerly testing System Fusion) is presently offline and will return soon as an analog FM-only repeater atop Broadcast Peak. Levi C. Maaia, K6LCM Co-Chair, SBARC Telecommunications Services Committee www.levi.maaia.com +1.805.604.5384

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Valves
by Bill Talanian 19 May '17

19 May '17

If anyone is still collecting tubes let me know. I know of a local source. Bill Talanian

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