The Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club's Contest SIG (Special Interest Group) will be operating in the ARRL September VHF QSO Party this coming weekend, Sept. 9 & 10.

We will be moving Equipment on site and setting up late Friday Afternoon Sept. 8. On contest starts at 10:00 local time on Saturday September 9 an goes through Sunday evening. We will be operating 6 meters, 2 meters, 220 MHz, 432 MHz, 900 MHz?, 1296 MHz, 10 GHz and 24 GHz. There will be three operating positions two in F.D. tents and the 6 meter station in the SBARC Van.

We will be back at "Ham Hill" in Elings Park. Directions to the site are as follows: - Take Las Positas Road off of Highway 101and head toward the Ocean or South/East. - Las Positas ends at Cliff Drive, make a left at the stop sign and head up the hill. - Before you get to the top of the hill, the first turn off on the left is a dirt road that goes through a chain link fence. - Take the dirt road and keep to the left and head up the hill where the Hang Gliders or Parasails will be flying from - Drive past the upper parking lot and turn left toward the top of the hill, you will see the the towers, tents and SBARC Van. Anyone wanting to help set up and operate one or all of the VHF/UHF many bands just show up and/or get in touch with myself, Dick W6DNN or Rod WB9KMO.

Hope to see you all there.

73, gud luk in the contest

George Richardson K6HOZ SBARC V.P. Emergency Service 208 Via Sevilla St. Santa Barbara, CA 93109 Tel: (805) 965-9896 Fax: (805)965-1026 e-mail: k6hoz@sbarc.org