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SBARC WebCam on Santa Cruz Island
by Bill Talanian 07 Oct '13

07 Oct '13

Folks: I inadvertently left off a key person in this release, Shaw Takeuchi, AE6BL. That's what happens at 0600 :-) :-[. Bill NEW SBARC WEBCAM MAKES IT'S DEBUT Three months ago the UCSB-SBARC WebCam at Diablo Peak failed after several years of operation. The fragile wireless link from Diablo to the home of Thorsten von Eicken, N6TVE, was also on its last legs. The nearly 30 mile hop was something that many said could not be done consistently over water at 2.4 GHz but it did. However, it was time to boost ourselves into the next level of technology. The opportunity arose when Channel Islands Aviation and Aspen Helicopters sponsored a new camera and provided the transport trips to Diablo via helicopter. A second chance opportunity occurred when we learned about a wireless link that was being established by the UC Natural Reserve System to support their west end operations on the Island. This was the start of a crash program to link Diablo with another hilltop in the central rift called Centinela via a 5.8 GHz link. This project took four helicopter trips and hundreds of man-hours of planning, design, engineering, procurement and installation by a great team of dedicated technology minded individuals. On 26 September 2013, everything came together. The 360 degree panoramic picture view is taken every 10 minutes. To receive the current weather at Diablo click on the APRS link provided on the web page. <http://diablo.voneicken.com/imageview.cgi> The core team by call sign prefix: Shaw Takeuchi, AE6BL Bill Talanian, W1UUQ Kevin Browne, KB6IDY Adam Houser, KK6AXY Thorsten von Eicken, N6TVE Andy Seybold, W6AMS Matt Lechliter, W6KGB Bill Theeringer, W8PEY

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SBARC WebCam on Santa Cruz Island
by Bill Talanian 07 Oct '13

07 Oct '13

NEW SBARC WEBCAM MAKES IT'S DEBUT Three months ago the UCSB-SBARC WebCam at Diablo Peak failed after several years of operation. The fragile wireless link from Diablo to the home of Thorsten von Eicken, N6TVE, was also on its last legs. The nearly 30 mile hop was something that many said could not be done consistently over water at 2.4 GHz but it did. However, it was time to boost ourselves into the next level of technology. The opportunity arose when Channel Islands Aviation and Aspen Helicopters sponsored a new camera and provided the transport trips to Diablo via helicopter. A second chance opportunity occurred when we learned about a wireless link that was being established by the UC Natural Reserve System to support their west end operations on the Island. This was the start of a crash program to link Diablo with another hilltop in the central rift called Centinela via a 5.8 GHz link. This project took four helicopter trips and hundreds of man-hours of planning, design, engineering, procurement and installation by a great team of dedicated technology minded individuals. On 26 September 2013, everything came together. The 360 degree panoramic picture view is taken every 10 minutes. To receive the current weather at Diablo click on the APRS link provided on the web page. <http://diablo.voneicken.com/imageview.cgi> The core team by call sign prefix: Bill Talanian, W1UUQ Kevin Browne, KB6IDY Adam Houser, KK6AXY Thorsten von Eicken, N6TVE Andy Seybold, W6AMS Matt Lechliter, W6KGB Bill Theeringer, W8PEY

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KEYT Parent Company to Co-Own KCOY
by Darryl Widman 26 Sep '13

26 Sep '13

This from the Sept. 24, 2013 edition of edhat KEYT Parent Company to Co-Own KCOY Also Purchasing Stations in Monterey and San Luis Obispo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, September 23, 2013 By Tyler Hayden (Contact) The parent company of KEYT announced Monday that, pending final approval from the Federal Communications Commission, it will soon co-own Santa Maria's CBS affiliate KCOY and purchase FOX affiliate KKFX in San Luis Obispo. News-Press & Gazette Company (which is based in St. Joseph, Missouri, and has no relation to The Santa Barbara News-Press) will also buy up KMUV and KION in Monterey. According to a statement from News-Press & Gazette Company, current KCOY owner Cowles Media will continue to take care of management and programming duties while News-Press will provide news, back office, engineering, and sales support services. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2013. News-Press and Cowles Media representatives were not immediately available for comment. The announcement comes around a year after the News-Press & Gazette Company bought KEYT from Smith Media for a reported $14.25 million. Since then, KEYT has added high-definition broadcasts, hired a number of new reporters, upgraded equipment, and launched a new website. During the transition, Mark Danielson took over the general manager position. News-Press & Gazette Company owns or co-owns 23 television stations and 4 radio stations throughout the country.

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Carpinteria Triathlon- Need Hams
by Rick Whitaker 14 Sep '13

14 Sep '13

If anyone is interested in helping out at a radio position for the upcoming Carpinteria Triathlon there are plenty of good positions to be filled. The event is Sunday, September 29th and it starts at 0700. Please contact me and give me your T-shirt size so you can get a free T-shirt for working the event. The Carpinteria Triathlon People have always welcomed us with much appreciation for our skills and support. Please get back to me if you can make it. 73 Rick Whitaker rickwhtr(a)cox.net

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Reminder of ARDF Practice at Lake Los Carnaros Saturday
by Marvin Johnston 13 Sep '13

13 Sep '13

Southern California's next international-style on-foot foxhunt will be this Saturday, September 14 at Lake Los Carneros Park in Goleta, CA. Besides some easy fox transmitters just to help you learn and test your equipment, there will be a beginner-level international-rules course on the two-meter band, set by Marvin Johnston KE6HTS. There will also be a foxoring course on the 80 meter band. You can try either or both courses as your available time allows. 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 at finding transmitters, just ask. Full-color orienteering maps will be available. For those who want to build RDF gear for use with their own two-meter hand-held radios or scanners, Marvin will have kits for measuring-tape yagis and active attenuators for the two-meter band. Also available is an assembled and tested assembly that includes the power switch, BNC connector, housing and battery, ready to install as the tape measure beam is built. There will be tools and soldering stations for building. If you're not an electronic technician, don't worry because there will be experts to help you. We want you to succeed! Send e-mail to Marvin (marvin(a)west.net) to pre-register and get more information about equipment. If you already have equipment and just want to hunt transmitters, you don't need to pre-register. The building session will start at 9:30 AM. Please be prompt. Beginner transmitters will be on the air at that time. The main 5-fox hunts on both bands will start about 10:30 AM. Hunters may start the courses at any time until 1 PM. Courses close at 3 PM. There is no charge for participation. If you have receivers, scanners, directional antennas, attenuators, or other equipment suitable for on-foot RDF, be sure to bring it. Make sure all batteries are fresh. A limited amount of RDF gear will be available for loan. 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 probably be in the parking lot. If that is too crowded, we will move to a nearby picnic area. Ham radio talk-in is on the WB6OBB repeater, 147.000(+) PL 131.8. 73, Joe Moell K0OV

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ARDF Practice This Weekend at Lake Los Carnaros
by Marvin Johnston 09 Sep '13

09 Sep '13

Hi all, First a thank you for a job well done at the convention in Buellton. Everyone I talked to, including myself, had a great time up there. This Saturday (Sept 14), we will be having another ARDF practice session at Lake Carnaros. In addition to our usual ARDF 2M practice, we will be doing a short FoxOring course. FoxOring is a combination of orienteering and 80M DFing. Basically you navigate to the circle shown on the map. And from within that circle, you can hear a very low power transmitter with an 80M receiver. Since it is unlikely that many people will have an 80M receiver, we will have some to loan out. As usual, you can see more information on the HomingIn website at: http://www.homingin.com/ Thanks! Marvin, KE6HTS

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ARRL 2013 Southwestern Division Convention in Buellton is next week!
by Darryl Widman 31 Aug '13

31 Aug '13

Ladies and Gentlemen, Just in case you have planned on coming to our great ARRL 2013 Southwestern Division Convention in Buellton and have not yet sent in your registration, you have just moments left before the chance to get in on the Early-Bird Prize Drawing slips through your fingers. Your registration must be received by SBARC at its mailing address on or before September 3, 2013. That is just next Tuesday. Here is where you can fill out the Registration form: https://www.swhamcon.com/page.cfm?id=80 The Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club is putting on a Big, Exciting, Fun, Educational, Challenging, Fantastic, Best Ever Ham Radio Convention right over the hill at the Santa Ynez Valley Marriott Hotel and Convention Center in the City of Buellton, just across the 101 Fwy. from Anderson's Pea Soup Restaurant. This great event will be on Friday, September 6 through Sunday, September 8. Our club has been working with the fine folks at the Marriott Hotel and Convention Center and have taken over a large portion of the place in order to put on a wonderful program of Amateur Radio activities for you. Typical scene at the Flea Market We have Seminars; Work Shops; a huge Flea Market with Tailgating; 3 Transmitter Hunts with prizes; Marvin, KE6HTS, is putting on another one of his famous antenna clinic/workshops followed by a Transmitter hunt with 5 hidden transmitters; 2 large rooms dedicated to the use of our Vendors; on Friday from 6pm - 9pm a Pizza/Prime Rib feast in the Patio Lounge (no host); Saturday Night Banquet and so many Prizes you will have a great chance of winning something of value -- in addition to all of the Hourly Prizes. Of course, guests of the Marriott Hotel and Convention Center are invited to use the beautiful swimming pool. Typical exciting and educational seminar You can drive from your home each day to the Convention or stay at the Hotel where all the action is (contact the Marriott Hotel and Convention Center right away -- 1-800-638-8882 or 1-805-688-1000) or stay at one of the neighboring hotels/motels. Our webpage is nearly complete and you will see how much planning has been going on behind the scenes. Please visit http://www.swhamcon.com/ and see what it's all about. Our thanks go to Al Soenke, WA6VNN; Tom Saunders, N6YX; Rod Fritz, WB9KMO, and many, many others of the Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club for putting this great Convention together. I plan on seeing you there. I sure hope you plan on seeing me there, too! 73, Darryl Widman, KF6DI SBARC Executive Vice President

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SBARC
by Tom Saunders 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

SBARC I am sure that you are aware that all clubs have problems. This is an example of why SBARC has problems. Members such as John Reeside create significant problems. I have included the dialog from John Reeside without editing. Judge for yourself what is going on. Tom Saunders Mobile (805) 452 - 0840 Home (805) 967 - 7351 FAX (805) 308 - 0347 tsaund(a)cox.net From: Tom Saunders [mailto:tsaund@cox.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 5:45 AM To: Alan Soenke; aseybold(a)andrewseybold.com; Bill Talanian; Bruce Gordon; Darryl Widman; Dorothy Oksner; k9kbx(a)hotmail.com; Mike Wapner; Rod Fritz; Tom Saunders; Walt Harasty; Whitaker, Rick Subject: FW: SBARC ROVER Tom Saunders Mobile (805) 452 - 0840 Home (805) 967 - 7351 FAX (805) 308 - 0347 tsaund(a)cox.net From: John B. Reeside [mailto:jbrpet@cox.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 3:32 AM To: Jordan Cc: Tom Saunders; Al Soenke; K6QD(a)cox.net; w1uuq(a)cox.net Subject: Re: SBARC ROVER Tom, Either Saunders was not listening at the board meting or he is purposely obstructing the board's decision. There is no need to spend money at the shop when he was not only told to let you at it but steadfastly refused to relocate the vehicle to the Red Cross---where we had people ready to test their HTs with it. He should be removed immediately from all responsibility for this vehicle. JBR On 19/8/13 19:26 , Jordan wrote: Tom, I am at a loss as to why you would take the rover to the shop when we just spoke two days ago about me handling all the mechanical issues it has this week. You now have a $605 bill for transmission/diff/cooling system diagnosing that I could have handled in half a day for less than $150 in parts. The $900 radiator issue can most likely be handled for a small fraction of this cost as well since most of this comes down to labor and over priced parts. I offered up my time, tools and space to keep this rover maintained and in shape as my way of giving back to this club and promoting Amateur Radio in Santa Barbara, but maybe I am wasting my time by offering my services since there seems to be no interest. Why was the rover taken to the shop in the first place? I thought it was extremely clear that the first course of action was to have me take a look and determine what needed to be done and then make a time to handle it this week. Already it seems $600-1000 just got thrown away for no reason, money that could have been used where it will most likely be sorely needed (specialty parts for the mast), or creating the portable repeater or fixing wiring or any number of other valid items. I have CCed Al, Bill and John. My offer still stands to help with the truck but we clearly need to determine where to go from here. You all have my contact info and I am readily available and easy to reach. Kind regards, Jordan Sideris 805-350-4287 On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Tom Saunders <tsaund(a)cox.net> wrote: Jordan We could use some help this week with the Rover. The service shop wants $975 to repair the cooling system. I think it could be done for a lot less if we get the old radiator repaired instead of paying $660 for a new one. I told the service shop to continue with other things and I would get back to them tomorrow. Please contact me if you are available for this. Here is some of the recent news on this vehicle: I took the rover back to Automotive Service Center. This is the same place that Bill took it to in June. The Rover still has a problem with overheating. It went overtemp at freeway speed even during a cool evening. If the temperature gauge is correct, it would probably blow another hose if it was driven up a hill. I am also having the Automotive Service Center do preventative maintenance on the transmission and differential according to Bill's recommendation and the fact that we have not had performed maintenance in these areas since we got the vehicle. I also noticed a water leak from the windshield. I will get this fixed also. If the Rover was taken back to the Red Cross, we would have had another breakdown disaster like we did in June. Also, water leakage from rain would have damaged the drivers VHF/UHF radio. I will return the Rover to Red Cross or to Andy as soon as maintenance is finished. I just got a call from Richard at Automotive Service Center about the Rover. He confirmed my suspicion that the radiator was bad. He indicated that they tested it and noticed that only half the radiator was warm after running the engine. His diagnosis was that the radiator was 50 % blocked. Richard recommended a new radiator. A new radiator will cost $ 660 with $218 for labor and $97 for hoses for a total cost of $ 975. I told Richard that I would notify him later. I had hoped that the radiator could be removed and cleaned. $ 660 for a new part is more expensive than I had expected. Is there a less expensive way to get the radiator repaired ? Richard also said that he would replace the radiator hoses. The repair work in June only replaced the heater hose. I asked him to : check cooling system $ 109 transmission service $311 differential service $169 total of $ 605.49 I initially requested a tuneup to replace plugs, wires, rotor, distributor cap, fuel filter, etc., but the price was over $ 500 so I declined this work for now. Shall I have them replace the radiator or is there another alternative ? I don't want to spend $ 1580 without board approval. Thanks Tom Saunders Mobile (805) 452 - 0840 <tel:%28805%29%20452%20-%200840> Home (805) 967 - 7351 <tel:%28805%29%20967%20-%207351> tsaund(a)cox.net From: emperorjordan(a)gmail.com [mailto:emperorjordan@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jordan Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 8:19 AM To: tsaund(a)cox.net; tsaunders(a)cox.net Subject: SBARC ROVER Tom, This is Jordan KJ6YVJ just sending over contact info. My phone is 805 350 4287 <tel:805%20350%204287> and email is j(a)madtorq.com Jordan

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Santa Barbara Triathlon- August 24. 2013
by Rick Whitaker 16 Aug '13

16 Aug '13

Guys, I realize this may be a little out of you neighborhood, but.. If you are interested in helping out for the Santa Barbara Triathlon, I can locate you on the Carpinteria part of the Race and you won't have to come into the city. Please think about it. T-shirts will be included for volunteering for this event. 73 Rick Whitaker SBARC, VP of Operations rickwhtr(a)cox.net

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SB Triathlon is August 24th
by Rick Whitaker 16 Aug '13

16 Aug '13

I am still looking for Ham Operators who would like to support eh Santa Barbara Triathlon. This is a big race and it goes into areas that have no cell phone reception. The organizer of this is always eager to get our help. It is Saturday, August 24th from 0730 until about 1300. If you are interested please get back to me as I have only a few stations open. Thanks, Rick Whitaker VP of Operations, SBARC rickwhtr(a)cox.net

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