Hi everyone,
Just a reminder that we will be having a Hamfest planning meeting tonight at
Rusty's Pizza on upper State Street next to Burger King. We will start at 6:30PM
and plan on ending by 8:30PM.
As I said earlier, these are my goals:
* Build a Hamfest team that will continue into the future.
* Make the content of our Hamfest spectacular so people WANT to attend as
opposed to attending only because of tradition.
* Provide a means to follow up on people interested and get them involved in ham
radio.
I would also like to find someone interested in online market research that can
find the interest level in what we come up with. This will be a great learning
experience for anyone interested in Internet Market Research!!! A couple of us
have some experience with marketing, both online and offline, so you won't be
left out in the cold as to how to do the research. The online research will
mainly involve using Google and the many tools they provide.
Please be thinking of what activities/demonstrations/speakers will attract
people. Since we will have the Earl Warren Showgrounds sign to help with
exposure, we need to also consider people not in ham radio but would be
interested in finding out more.
Thanks, and see you tonight at Rusty's upper State Street!
Marvin, KE6HTS
2009 Hamfest Chair
EVERYONE is welcome to join us for the:
One Year Anniversary Breakfast
Santa Barbara Two-Meter Single Sideband Net!
Saturday December 6, 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Codys Cafe
4898 Hollister Ave, Goleta (at Turnpike)
Door prizes:
Two MFJ Three Element Beams!!
Yes, brand new beams FREE to two lucky winners!!
Even if you have NOT been part of the SSB net, you are welcome to join us to
socialize and celebrate the one year anniversary of this fabulous net. We
have held the net EVERY Wednesday for a year, and 58 individuals have check
in during that time. We would like to share our success and show you how
easy it is to join us on two-meter SSB. By the way, Cody's has great food!
Please RSVP to Ken, N6KTH (n6kth(a)n6kth.com or 448-5726)
We need to know how many will be attending!
Directions:
>From the north:
Take highway 101 south to the Turnpike Exit
Turn right on Turnpike
Enter the Turnpike Center at the end of Turnpike/Hollister intersection
Cody's is at 4898 Hollister (see map below)
Phone: (805) 683-5141
Directions:
>From the south:
Take highway 101 north to the Turnpike Exit
Turn left on Turnpike
Enter the Turnpike Center at the end of Turnpike/Hollister intersection
Cody's is at 4898 Hollister (see map below)
Phone: (805) 683-5141
EVERYONE is welcome to join us for the:
One Year Anniversary Breakfast
Santa Barbara Two-Meter Single Sideband Net!
Saturday December 6, 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Codys Cafe
4898 Hollister Ave, Goleta (at Turnpike)
Door prizes:
Two MFJ Three Element Beams!!
Yes, brand new beams FREE to two lucky winners!!
Even if you have NOT been part of the SSB net, you are welcome to join us to
socialize and celebrate the one year anniversary of this fabulous net. We
have held the net EVERY Wednesday for a year, and 58 individuals have check
in during that time. We would like to share our success and show you how
easy it is to join us on two-meter SSB. By the way, Cody's has great food!
Please RSVP to Ken, N6KTH (n6kth(a)n6kth.com or 448-5726)
We need to know how many will be attending!
Directions:
>From the north:
Take highway 101 south to the Turnpike Exit
Turn right on Turnpike
Enter the Turnpike Center at the end of Turnpike/Hollister intersection
Cody's is at 4898 Hollister (see map below)
Phone: (805) 683-5141
Directions:
>From the south:
Take highway 101 north to the Turnpike Exit
Turn left on Turnpike
Enter the Turnpike Center at the end of Turnpike/Hollister intersection
Cody's is at 4898 Hollister (see map below)
Phone: (805) 683-5141
QRP Dinner this Friday before the SBARC meeting
Guess what!
The QRP Special Interest Group (SIG) will be going to dinner together this Friday night before the October SBARC club meeting. Come and join us. We always have a very nice time, talk QRP, and down some of the best Italian food in Goleta.
We go to Presto Pasta, which is at 5764 Calle Real. We start showing up there at 5:30 PM. We hams wait until all have arrived before starting to eat, just like one pig waits for another!
After dinner, we will drive over to Fairview Ave., turn right and go less than 0.25 mile to the Goleta Union School District facility, which is right across the street from the Goleta Library. That is where we hold our monthly club meetings.
Our guest speaker for the evening will be Dr. Michael Barber, W6MRB, our very own Membership Chairman. Did you know that Michael is the CEO of the Santa Barbara Instrument Group which specializes in Astrophysical Photographic equipment that is famous the world over? SBIG is the manufacturer of a variety of CCD Cameras that have become the instruments of choice for most astro imagers. Michael will discuss CCD imaging for beginners and intermediate users, show some incredible outer-space photos and answer your many questions about CCD imaging. Michael's Power Point presentation promises to take your breath away!
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0809/ncg.346_hst_big.jpg
You will not want to miss this! Bring a guest with you.
Don't forget to bring your quality junque to deposit on the "free-to-good-home" table as well as take home your share of what others have deposited thereon.
Consider renewing your dues for next year. This will be the last meeting of this year, except for November, and would be a good time to get ready for 2009. You can bring your membership application along if you haven't already sent it in. You can download it from our SBARC website.
Be sure to get your share of raffle tickets for the drawing and, if you get a chance, please bring along some refreshments to put alongside the coffee pot.
See you Friday.
Darryl Widman, KF6DI
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Hi everyone,
Just a reminder that tomorrow evening will be the kickoff meeting for the 2009
Hamfest.
Who - Anyone interested in seeing our hamfest continue to grow and prosper
Where - Sizzler's Restaurant in Goleta approximately at the corner of Kellogg
and Hollister
When - Tuesday 10/14/2008 at 6:00 PM
Next year will be a great opportunity to continue the building of our hamfest,
and taking it up to the next level. As some of you already know, we are planning
on having the 2009 Hamfest at the Earl Warren Showgrounds. The day is also being
changed to Saturday as traffic should be lighter allowing people attending from
out of town an easier trip. This will be primarily a brainstorming and planning
meeting to set goals for what we want to do next year. We can figure out how to
accomplish those goals in a later meeting :)!
Please let me know if you will be attending so we can plan accordingly.
Thanks!
Marvin, KE6HTS
I have a Schumacher SE-520MA battery charger, that seems to be having
problems.
Here is a link to a picture and information:
http://www.batterysales.com/schumacher-detail.cfm?model=SE-520MA
I have been using it to charge my 105Ah deep cycle AGM battery, as well as
a 7Ah battery. When things were working properly, an LED would indicate a
full charge, afterwhich the charger would switch into a maintenance mode.
Over time, the LED would go on and off at various intervals, indicating
that the battery was being kept charged. However, now the LED no longer
indicates a full charge. I know the LED is working, because it will light
up if I unplug the charger and connect the terminals to the battery. There
is also voltage at the terminals while the charger is powered up.
In addition, the batteries appear to be mostly drained. I am unable to
transmit on my IC-7000 while connected to the 105Ah battery, which is a few
years old, and has been charged only a few times.
Does anyone have experience with this charger, who might know what is wrong
with it?
---Michael, NO6O
Hi everyone,
The board last night approved the change of our Hamfest venue from the Elks to
Earl Warren Showgrounds. Since this is a jump in the scale, we are starting
early to build the event. I volunteered to be the Hamfest Chair for next year,
and we need to start now in building the team to put it on. It is also possible
that this could be a section wide Hamfest as well.
I've always had a vision of what we could do with Hamfest and this change was
something I had in mind when I chaired my first Hamfest back in 1995. And now as
back then, I am promoting the thought that we are not only working on the 2009
Hamfest, but also on future hamfests. I have several goals in mind:
* Build a Hamfest team that will continue into the future.
* Make the content of our Hamfest spectacular so people WANT to attend as
opposed to attending only because of tradition.
* Provide a means to follow up on people interested and get them involved in ham
radio.
The kickoff dinner will be Tuesday, October 14 at 6:00PM at the Sizzler's
Restaurant in Goleta, and will be a brainstorming/planning session. A number of
changes are in the works to expand what we have done in the past, and the first
will be weekly dinner meetings to work on and keep everything on track.
I was told many years ago that the more people that are involved in an event,
the more successful that event will be. So please give me a call at 687-8881 if
you can attend or if you want to participate but can't make the dinner meeting.
Together, we WILL make a difference!!!
Thanks!
Marvin, KE6HTS
Folks,
Steve Fossett aircraft found in the area of the Minarets.
As you recall I was invited by the search team for Steve Fossett to
set up the air-ground communications. I spent several days at the
Hilton Ranch search base in Nevada building up the mountaintop
communications repeater that was used for more than 30 days. No one
on our team ever speculated as to where Fossett went down. After
several weeks the official search was called off. We all knew that
someday he would most likely be found by a hiker or back-packer. The
air search was very extensive and was very thorough in both Nevada
and California. To show the contrast of this rugged region I submit
two photos. The first picture below was todays release from the
search team and the second picture was one I personally took as we
flew along the edge of the Minarets near Mammoth Mountain. There
would be no way one could see the strewn wreckage from our clearance
altitude in the fixed wing.
I want to thank all of you who sent me late breaking stories with pictures.
Bill Talanian
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