Come Join the Technical Elmering Net
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Thursday, 7:30 pm until 9:30pm
On the following repeaters:
146.79 MHz (La Vigia Hill)
223.92 MHz (Santa Cruz Island)
224.08 MHz (La Cumbre Peak)
Minus offset, PL 131.8
Hosted by Dave Milton, K6HWN
All Amateur Radio-related topics are welcome.
Bring your questions, experiences, and/or expertise.
---Michael, NO6O
November 24, 2010
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club finds itself in need of a cameraman (or woman). Our good friend, Bill Hepp, K6TZP, has served our club well for the past several years taking nice pictures of us either posed or candidly and we have seen them in Key-Klix and wondered how they got in there! He finds that he would like to move on now and do other things for awhile.
That leaves a very fun position open for someone who loves to click photos whenever the mood strikes. Do you find yourself toting your nice digital camera around with you almost everywhere you go knowing that the perfect shot will be out there just waiting for you to take? We're not especially looking for a professional photographer. We're looking for someone who loves snapping pictures because the particular subject simply needs to be snapped either for now or for posterity.
Perhaps you have had a feeling that you are quite good at your camera skills but no one has 'discovered' you yet. Let this be your official invitation to give us a bit of your time at our club functions or those that our club serves, usually with communication services, and let us make you famous. You could be the eyes of those who missed an event or didn't catch all those wonderful scenes that one with a camera sees. You would always get full credit for your wonderful work (play) in Key-Klix and in other documents we print out.
So what are you waiting for? Simply give me a call at 805-969-2326 and let me know that you are interested. Easy.
Thank you and 73,
Darryl Widman, KF6DI
Exec. Vice President
Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club
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SBARC Wednesday Nets
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Beginning at 7:00 pm on the following linked repeaters:
146.79 MHz (La Vigia Hill)
223.92 MHz (Santa Cruz Island)
224.08 MHz (La Cumbre Peak)
Minus offset, PL 131.8
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7:00pm - 7:30pm -- Amateur Radio Newsline (www.ARNewsLine.org)
7:30pm - 8:00pm -- Weekly Club Net
8:00pm - 8:30pm -- Swap Net, hosted by Dave Milton, K6HWN
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Then, at 8:30pm, on 144.210 MHz, is the VHF Single Side Band Roundtable, typically hosted by Ken Owen, N6KTH. This popular roundtable is now in its third year. Some People start checking in early between 8:00pm and 8:30pm. For details, visit www.n6kth.com/vhf.
---Michael, NO6O
Thought some of you might be interested. Enjoy!
73,
Tony, AD6ID
ad6idham(a)gmail.com
805-264-1132
Tony Armendariz (Horn)
ad6idham(a)gmail.com
805-264-1132
Come Join the Technical Elmering Net
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Thursday, 7:30 pm until 9:30pm
On the following repeaters:
146.79 MHz (La Vigia Hill)
223.92 MHz (Santa Cruz Island)
224.08 MHz (La Cumbre Peak)
Minus offset, PL 131.8
Hosted by Dave Milton, K6HWN
All Amateur Radio-related topics are welcome.
Bring your questions, experiences, and/or expertise.
---Michael, NO6O
SBARC Wednesday Nets -- TRIVIA NIGHT!
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Beginning at 7:00 pm on the following linked repeaters:
146.79 MHz (La Vigia Hill)
223.92 MHz (Santa Cruz Island)
224.08 MHz (La Cumbre Peak)
Minus offset, PL 131.8
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7:00pm - 7:30pm -- Amateur Radio Newsline (www.ARNewsLine.org)
7:30pm - 8:00pm -- !! TRIVIA NIGHT !! Hosted by Dave Milton, K6HWN
8:00pm - 8:30pm -- Swap Net, hosted by Dave Milton, K6HWN
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Then, at 8:30pm, on 144.210 MHz, is the VHF Single Side Band Roundtable, typically hosted by Ken Owen, N6KTH. This popular roundtable is now in its third year. Some People start checking in early between 8:00pm and 8:30pm. For details, visit www.n6kth.com/vhf.
---Michael, NO6O
REMINDER FOR YOU.
DON'T MISS THIS!
SBARC's
1st Annual
Homebrew Night
by Darryl Widman, KF6DI
Early "homebrew" Amateur Radio transmitter
(Snatched from Wikipedia)
In the early years of Amateur Radio, long before factory-built gear was easily available, most hams built their own transmitting and receiving equipment, a process that came to be known as "homebrewing." In the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, hams handcrafted reasonable-quality vacuum tube -based transmitters and receivers which were often housed in their basements, and it was common for a well-built "homebrew rig" to cover all the high frequency bands (1.8 to 30 MHz).
Homebrewing was often encouraged by Amateur Radio publications. In 1950, CQ Amateur Radio Magazine announced a ''$1000 Cash Prize 'Home Brew' Contest'' and called independently-built equipment ''the type of gear which has helped to make Amateur Radio our greatest reservoir of technical proficiency.'' The magazine tried to steer hams back into building by sponsoring such competitions and by publishing more construction plans, saying that homebrewing imparted a powerful technical mastery to hams. In 1958, a CQ editorial opined that if ham radio lost status as a technical activity, it might also lose the privilege of operating on the public airwaves, saying, ''As our ranks of home constructors thin we also fall to a lower technical level as a group."
In the 1950s and 60s, some hams turned to constructing their stations from kits sold by Heathkit, Eico, EF Johnson, Allied Radio's Knight-Kit, World Radio Laboratories and other suppliers.
Today, only a minority of hams own and operate completely homebrew or kit-built amateur stations. However, there are many new ham radio kit suppliers, and the "art" of homebrewing is alive and thriving.
How true that is! There are many among us who absolutely love kit building. Many others of us love putting pencil to paper and coming up with a new idea on how to improve our stations or just design something that has never been seen before. And what a hoot that is. Building something that is unique or making something work in some fashion that it was not designed for -- that is a "kick in the head." Being able to improve or modify a piece of equipment designed by someone else to serve another purpose is really fun. Those engineers who came up with the original concept might have never considered what you might want to do with it. So what's stopping you from doing just that? NOTHING. Go for it. Just don't tell your YL or OM about what you have in mind for that lovely radio in the kitchen.
Anyway, this November 19 SBARC club meeting, in addition to having our annual election of officers, will give everyone the opportunity to bring along one of their neat homebrew gizmos, write up a short story on what they did and put it on one of the tables and show it off. We hope that this will be the first of a traditional event and even create a desire to get out there in the shop and do something novel. Do some research, come up with a new design or concept, modify someone else's model or just throw something together yourself and we'll give you a big pat on the back for doing it. You have over a year to get ready for next year's event but for the meeting next week just bring along something you made or modified and show it off.
This is going to be a lot of fun. I am looking forward to it. Your Board of Directors has even agreed to come up with a prize for the one who garners the most votes for his or her gizmo. Perhaps you will be that lucky winner. Now go write up your little article and get ready.
Oh, please bring with you some goodies for the dessert table!
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11 November 2010
To: SBARC List-server
From: Bill Talanian, Trustee K6TZ
Subject: Club station operations
A week ago, as Trustee of K6TZ, I received an email inquiry from the
FCC legal staff at the Enforcement Bureau relative to operations on
the repeater. The inquiry requested information about on-the-air
requests for donations to support the club station. The first step
was to have everyone back-off this issue until the we could get all
the facts together. An immediate response was sent to the FCC with a
return reply received in 3 days. After a review of all the facts in
this case it is apparent there was no violation of FCC rules by David
Milton, K6HWN. The FCC was satisfied that the issue is resolved by
not placing the Bureau in the position of passing judgement or
issuing a ruling. In other words the FCC is satisfied that we have
responsible people at the helm in keeping petty issues under control.
Each repeater system takes on an individual persona which is why
there is more than one system for any person or group of persons.
While the style of any one operator may not suit all the ultimate
power is within two fingers to listen or simply turn the radio off.
Like it or not David has brought back vibrant life to the K6TZ
repeater and certainly has a large following. The Board is mindful
that not everyone agrees with all styles and substance and has
offered suggestions on how to achieve better cohesiveness in daily operations.
As your Trustee for more than 25 years this is the first inquiry or
complaint we have ever received from the FCC. What is most
distressing is that an individual complaint was made directly to the
Enforcement Bureau of the FCC without knowing all the facts. As
Trustee I report directly to the Board of SBARC as well as the FCC.
My job is to resolve any differences be they operational or
technical. If an issue requires further counseling we have a 13
member Board of Directors and the Regulatory Branch at the ARRL.
Anyone is welcome to seek out an individual Board member or if
necessary bring the issue before the full meeting of the Board which
meets once per month. In this regard the complainant failed to meet
the first test. By going directly to the FCC the complainant only
get's one shot. This person has now lost all credibility in their argument.
Back to Net Control !
