https://worldradiohistory.com/
If you're not familiar with that site, have a look. It contains a huge
collection of books and magazines from all over the world.
Anyone in Santa Barbara/Goleta/Carp using an antenna to pick up over the
air TV? I'm wondering if the KSBY signal can be picked up around these
parts. I'm getting KEYT and (ABC and CBS) but no NBC.
I think KSBY in SLO has a DTV translator for the South Coast on Gibraltar
but I can't pick it up from the Mesa. Anyone else having any luck?
LCM
Fellow SBARC members,
Recently, SBARC applied for grant funding from Amateur Radio Digital Communications for the new K6TZ Radio Station at the Chrisman California Islands Center in Carpenteria. ARDC approved our application in the amount of $35,550! This grant funding will cover all of the budgeted costs of the CCIC Station.
This project will expand SBARC’s footprint by offering an additional physical station location serving members in Carpinteria and Ventura County. The Club plans to host Club gatherings at the CCIC Station as well as offer regular open station hours and support radiosport contests from the site.
The Santa Cruz Island Foundation is providing the 12′ x 7′ gallery space dedicated exclusively to the radio station along with a 55″ TV monitor to display a demonstration of SBARC’s various systems, including the camera and vessel tracking systems on Diablo Peak, Santa Cruz Island.
More information on this project can be found on our website.
https://www.sbarc.org/2021/04/15/k6tz-ccic/
LCM
Levi C. Maaia, K6LCM
Director at Large | K6TZ Trustee
Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club
Santa Barbara Wireless Foundation
a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public benefit corporation
www.levimaaia.com | www.k6lcm.com
+1.805.604.5384
Slowly but surely we will be getting back to normal in spite of those
opposed to it :). We are still looking at setting a date for a
championship practice up at Mt Pinos with the date TBA. Right now, I'm
planning on 2M and 80M Classic courses, sprints, and FoxOring. This will
most likely be a Friday through Sunday event with arrivals on Thursday
hopefully in early July. McGill campground is open now, so that will be
the center of the events. And of course, full color orienteering maps
will be provided along with the optional and traditional Saturday
evening Tri-tip BBQ.
Thanks!
Marvin, KE6HTS
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Lake Los Carneros Park in Goleta, CA will be the site of southern
California's next international-style on-foot foxhunt on Saturday, June
12, 2021. There is no charge for participation.
In addition to some easy two-meter 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, designed by Marvin
Johnston KE6HTS. One or more optional 80-meter fox transmitters may
also be on the air. The site area is slightly less than 140 acres. It
is relatively flat, making it a good site for foxtailers of all skill
levels. 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. There will be tools and soldering
stations for building.
If you want to build an antenna/attenuator kit, you must register in
advance. 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.
If it takes place, the building session will start at 9:00 AM. Please
be prompt. Transmitter hunting will begin about 10:00 AM. You may
start out on the courses at any time until 12 noon. Courses close at 2
PM. For those interested, we will meet at a local restaurant after all
the transmitters have been picked up for further discussion of ARDF.
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. Ham radio talk-in is on the WB6OBB
repeater, 147.000(+) PL 131.8.
73,
Joe Moell K0OV
City of Santa Barbara media release. If you are having difficulty viewing this email, please click on this link to view in a web browser.
http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/civica/press/display.asp?layout=1&Entry=2348
MEDIA RELEASE
Arson Arrest Made in Loma Fire Incident
SANTA BARBARA, CA - 5/21/2021
On May 20, 2021, around 8:55pm, numerous 9-1-1 calls started pouring into the Santa Barbara Police Combined Communications Center about a large vegetation fire on Loma Alta Drive. Multiple Officers and Fire Department personnel responded to the scene. The hillside, adjacent to Loma Alta Drive was ablaze and Santa Barbara City Fire requested assistance from allied fire agencies to help extinguish the fire.
Due to the fast-moving fire and proximity to neighborhoods, multiple off-duty Santa Barbara Police Officers were recalled to assist with evacuations. Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office assisted the Santa Barbara Police Department with evacuations and road closures. Hundreds of residents in the surrounding neighborhoods were evacuated.
Around midnight, City Fire Investigators noticed a suspicious subject scrambling down the lower portion of the hill and hiding in the brush between Loma Alta Drive and West Ortega Street. Investigators detained the suspect and called for immediate Police back-up. Officers, Detectives, and Fire Investigators detained Victor Hernandez (23 years old), a Santa Barbara resident. Hernandez has been a suspect in other recent arson cases within the city.
Hernandez was arrested on scene for being under the influence of a controlled substance and taken to the Santa Barbara Police Department while the fire investigation continued. There, Police Detectives and Fire Investigators interviewed Hernandez and established a timeline that put him at the scene of the Loma Fire. It was determined there were five separate fires in total last night. Fire Investigators believe the Loma Fire was an act of arson.
Hernandez was booked in Santa Barbara County Jail for 451(b) PC - Arson of an Inhabited Dwelling (vegetation fire caused damage to a structure), five counts of 451(c) PC - General Arson, 11550(a) H&S - Under the Influence of a Controlled Substance, and 11377 H&S - Possession of Narcotics. He is currently being held on $2,000,000 (two million) bail.
This investigation is still ongoing. At this time, the Loma Fire is 70% contained and has been determined to be 7-acres in size.
Loma Alta Drive will be closed from West Canon Perdido Street to Coronel Street for the remainder of the day and may possibly be closed until Saturday.
The Police Department would like to thank the community members of Santa Barbara for quickly complying with the evacuation order and staying away from the area.
Loma Fire Photo
Loma Fire Photo 2 - Detention of Suspect
Sgt. E. Ragsdale
Phone: 805-897-2432
Email: eragsdale(a)sbpd.com
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Live audio from City and County Fire dispatch frequencies as well as the K6TZ repeater can be found online at:
https://www.sbarc.org/live-streaming-audio-and-archives/
LCM
Levi C. Maaia, K6LCM
Director at Large | K6TZ Trustee
Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club
Santa Barbara Wireless Foundation
a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public benefit corporation
www.levimaaia.com | www.k6lcm.com
+1.805.604.5384
Hi all,
Do you know of a good radio repair person in the local area. I need repair of my Yaesu FT1000MP; (Yaesu doesn’t service this model anymore}
I have a couple of repair places in MN & CO, but would much rather have the work done locally.
All suggestions welcome. Thanks & 73
Tony Armendariz, AD6ID
ad6idham(a)gmail.com
Santa Barbara, CA 93110
805-264-1132
I’ve been hearing a lot of chatter on the repeater system about personal AllStarLink nodes. It is great that so many people are interested in this very cool linking technology. It combines a lot of the power of DMR with the simplicity and fidelity of FM signals and has much better fidelity and network beavers than EchoLink.
One issue we are having to deal with is that sometimes node users are parking their devices on the 70cm digital and amateur television sub-bands and occasionally on coorindated repeater system inputs and outputs. While there is no “FM node specific” allocation in 70cm, here is what we know directly from SCRRBA:
440.000/445.000; 446.860/441.860; 446.880/441.880 may be used as pairs for a low-power duplex node or as separate simplex node frequencies. Please listen to these frequencies with low squelch settings and no CTCSS for a few days before permanently parking your node here to see if and how these frequencies are used. FM simplex nodes are best PL/CTCSS protected, especially if they are left connected to a busy system like the WIN System.
Definitely avoid 446.000 altogether. This is the National Calling Frequency for 70cm. 446.500 and 446.520 are “General Simplex” frequencies. Others many want to use these for simplex QSOs or other itinerant purposes so please don’t park your node on any of these three frequencies.
DMR and SystemFusion nodes like the OpenSpot and ZumSpot with digital emissions may be used on frequencies in 431 MHz range (read more about that here) but these frequencies are NOT appropriate for analog FM nodes and should be avoided for this purpose. Also, please avoid 432.00-439.99 as these frequencies are allocated to weak signal, Amateur Television and digital emissions.
See the official band plans for more details:
http://www.scrrba.org/BandPlans/420-440.pdfhttp://www.scrrba.org/BandPlans/440-450.pdf
70cm is tough given the lack of simplex allocations. It’s a truly stuffed band but with your help and good operating practices, we can find a way to get along.
LCM
Levi C. Maaia, K6LCM
Director at Large | K6TZ Trustee
Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club
Santa Barbara Wireless Foundation
a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public benefit corporation
www.levimaaia.com | www.k6lcm.com
+1.805.604.5384
This information is news to me, and I thought others here might be
interested! The information comes from the latest ARRL newsletter.
Marvin, KE6HTS
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First-Time Exam Applicants Must Obtain FCC Registration Number Before
Taking Exam
Beginning May 20, 2021, all amateur examination applicants will be
required to provide an FCC Registration Number (FRN) to the Volunteer
Examiners (VEs) before taking an amateur exam. This is necessary due to
changes the FCC has made to its licensing system.
Amateur candidates who already have an FCC license, whether for amateur
radio or another service, and already have an FRN may use the same
number. All prospective new FCC licensees, however, will be required to
obtain an FRN before the examination and provide that number to the
volunteer examiners on the Form 605 license application. An FCC
instructional video provides step-by-step instructions on how to obtain
an FRN through the FCC's COmmission REgistration System (CORES).
The FRN is required for all new applicants to take an amateur exam and
is used afterward by the applicant to download the license document from
the FCC Universal Licensing System (ULS), upgrade the license, apply for
a vanity call sign, and to submit administrative updates (such as
address and email changes) and renewal applications.
In addition, after June 29, all applications will be required to contain
an email address for FCC correspondence. Applicants will receive an
email directly from the FCC with a link to the official electronic copy
of their license whenever a license is issued or changed. ARRL VEC
suggests that those without access to email should use the email address
of a family member or friend. Licensees will be able to log in to the
ULS using their FRN and password to download the latest version of their
license at any time. The FCC no longer provides paper license documents.
