WANTED
Aggressive person and one assistant with a good chain-saw to trim
trees at the TZ Mesa site. Should take about 2 hours. Get in touch
via email so I can schedule you in.
Thanks
Bill Talanian
Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club
2014 Annual Bazaar on Saturday, July 12
This is the event that many of us have been waiting for. The Bazaar is where we play a great game of Musical Garages.
Everyone has a chance to finally clear out all that wonderful junque that has been piling up. Even with all of our good intentions, we just never got around to building it, repairing it, modifying it or getting rid of it. Here is our chance. This event is a once-a-year happening and it is going to take place on Saturday morning, July 12, at the Santa Barbara Elks Lodge, 150 No. Kellogg Ave. in Santa Barbara, 93111. Here is a link to a Google Map for you to easily find how to get there, from no matter where you live.
https://www.google.com/search?q=150+N.+Kellogg+Ave.,+Santa+Barbara,+CA+9311…
So, just what sort of stuff can you expect to find at the Bazaar? How about just about every kind of radio related thing you can think of -- things like antennas, tower parts or complete units, radios that work, radios that almost work or used to work, all sorts of parts to build things with such as electronic components, wire, coax, insulators, telephone equipment, semiconductors, vacuum tubes, test equipment, computer related stuff, software, printers, memory, books and magazines, hardware, surplus military equipment, power supplies, soldering irons, older amateur radios and on and on.
There is also a Red Tag table where you may bring along a piece of gear that you don't particularly want to just toss on the pile but would prefer to ask a price for. The rules are that you or someone you appoint must be near your goodie to sell it for you and remove it after the event or any time before. Also, you get to keep 90% of what it sells for and SBARC gets to keep 10% of it. Hey, that's a pretty good deal.
The Bazaar runs from 8:00 am to 11:30 am. Be advised that the earliest bird gets the longest worm. So here is your chance to keep the little woman happy. Either she will be delighted that you have finally decided to clean out all that wonderful junque or she will be dancing up and down when she sees that trinket you have brought home with you!
Oh yeah, sure.
Bring all your friends. The club needs the money. Speaking of which, we will have several of our favorite people acting as salesmen and you can make such a deal with them. Go ahead, insult them with a ridiculous offer. They'll bargain with you. Bring lots of green or checks. We're not set up to take plastic at the Bazaar.
It's probably going to be a hot morning so we will also have cold drinks and donuts for sale. And another thing, don't be shy about taking home a whole bunch of stuff. What you don't use you can always bring back to next year's Bazaar. That just enhances the Musical Garages idea.
Now, don't tell anyone, but at some point in time that morning, if you listen carefully, you can hear announced that everything there is just half price! It gets crazy. But wait there's more -- as the clock approaches a certain hour, you can hear announced that everything is FREE! Of course these price reductions do not pertain to anything on the Red Tag table or the refreshments. If you wait for the price reductions, someone will probably buy what you want. You've been warned.
I plan on getting all the good stuff so if you really are thinking of taking home something special, better get there early. In the beginning of the event, you can look it all over and keep in mind what you can't live without. Then when the bell rings, run over to it and grab it and take it to one of our salesmen. They'll be obvious there. Another thing, after you pay for your item and get your receipt, take it over to your vehicle and lock it up in there and come back and shop some more. It's a terrible thing when something you paid for is then bought again by someone else and taken home!
See you all on Saturday morning, July 12. Put it on your calendar now.
73, Darryl Widman, KF6DI
2014 SBARC Bazaar Chairman
Hams and future hams,
SBARC will be holding amateur radio licensing classes in preparation for
a VE session at the August Hamfest. The session is on August 10,
classes to be held during the prior two to three weeks, so beginning in
late July.
Primary interest so far is for the Technician entry level class. Please
reply if you would like to attend and the dates and times that work best
for you, or any dates/times that will NOT work. Replies to the list or
in private are fine.
No specific schedule has been defined yet, your input will determine
that and we will try to accommodate everyone.
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Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay(a)impulse.net
Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/
Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV
The monthly SBARC meeting will be held tomorrow June 20 at the usual
location, 401 North Fairview Avenue.
This month's speaker will be Rachael Cline from the Red Cross with a
program on emergency preparedness.
In addition, we'll have discussion about the upcoming Field Day and a
raffle giving away a brand new VHF/UHF dual-band handheld radio.
Please join us at 7:30 PM, thanks!
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Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay(a)impulse.net
Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/
Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV
*[image: Inline image 1]Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Operators Demo
Emergency Communications*
*Local 'hams' to participate in national Field Day exercises from Camino
Real Marketplace*
*JUNE 18, 2014 - SANTA BARBARA, CALIF.*
Despite the proliferation of Internet access, cell phones and other modern
communications, each year whole regions find themselves in the dark.
Wildfires, earthquakes, floods and even the occasional cutting of
fiber-optic cables leave people without the means to communicate. In these
cases, the one consistent service that has never failed is Amateur Radio.
Amateur Radio operators, often called "hams," provide backup communications
for everything from the American Red Cross to FEMA and even for the
International Space Station.
Santa Barbara's "hams" will join with thousands of other Amateur Radio
operators showing their emergency capabilities on the last weekend of June.
Over the past year, the news has been full of reports of ham radio
operators providing critical communications during unexpected emergencies
in towns across America including the California and Colorado wildfires,
winter storms, tornadoes and other events world-wide. When trouble is
brewing, Amateur Radio operators are often the first to provide rescuers
with critical information and communications.
On the weekend of June 28-29, the public will have a chance to meet and
talk with Santa Barbara's hams and see for themselves what the Amateur
Radio Service is about, as operators across the United States and Canada
will be holding public demonstrations of emergency communications
abilities. This annual event, called "Field Day" is the climax of "Amateur
Radio Week."
Using only emergency power supplies, ham operators will construct emergency
stations in parks, shopping malls, schools and backyards around the
country. Their slogan, "when all else fails, Amateur Radio works" is more
than just words to the hams as they prove they can send messages in many
forms without the use of phone systems, the Internet or any other
infrastructure that can be compromised in a crisis. More than 35,000
Amateur Radio operators across the country participated in last year's
event.
"The fastest way to turn a crisis into a total disaster is to lose
communications," said Allen Pitts of the American Radio Relay League
(ARRL), the national association for Amateur Radio and the sponsor of Field
Day in the United States. "From the earthquake and tsunami in Japan to
tornadoes in Missouri, ham radio provided the most reliable communication
networks in the first critical hours of the events. Because ham radios are
not dependent on the Internet, cell towers or other infrastructure, they
work when nothing else is available. We need nothing between us but air."
Amateur Radio is growing in the United States. There are now more than
700,000 Amateur Radio licensees in the United States, and more than 2.5
million around the world. Through the ARRL's Amateur Radio Emergency
Services program, ham volunteers provide both emergency communications for
thousands of state and local emergency response agencies and non-emergency
community services too, all for free.
The Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club (SBARC) will be demonstrating Amateur
Radio at Camino Real Marketplace, 7410 Hollister Avenue on Saturday, June
28 from 11:00 AM through Sunday, June 29 at 11:00 AM. SBARC invites the
public to come and see ham radio's new capabilities and learn how to get
their own FCC radio license before the next disaster strikes. For more
information visit www.sbarc.org. The public is most cordially invited to
come, meet and talk with the hams. They can even help you get on the air!
See what modern Amateur Radio can do.
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A number of 2.2 volt cells are available with steel rack assembly.
Batteries can be arranged in any configuration up to 48 volts.
Charger rack is available but unknown condition. Condition of the
batteries is unknown with no guarantee of specific Amp Hour capacity.
May be able to deliver locally. If there is no request from any
source then the batteries will be scrapped.
