Category Archives: Club News

Voting is now open for our 2025 election for the 2025 year.  Online voting is available and you can also download and deliver your ballot. Ballots will also be available at the meeting for in-person voting. You may vote online until midnight November 13, 2024. Click Here to Visit the Official SBARC Election Page Online ballot is at the bottom of the page. Thank you for participating! Post expires at 11:58pm on Wednesday November 13th, 2024 but will still be available in the archives.

Bob Tangel WD6ESU became a silent key on October 23, 2024 in Medford Oregon. Bob was a past president of SBARC and was very active in ARES, Search & Rescue support,  and many other SBARC activities. Bob worked at Delco and retired in 2008 to Medford. His obituary is available on Noozhawk. Post expires at 10:12am on Thursday December 5th, 2024 but will still be available in the archives.

We’ll have a lot to talk about this meeting! First, we have news about the status of the Vic Trace / TCF site you will want to hear. As most of us know, we have been under a deadline of October 31 to remove our equipment and relocate the building. We’ve been busy and we’ll bring you all up-to-date. Every November SBARC holds its annual elections. The election will be held at the November Club Meeting. One of my jobs as president is to appoint a nominating committee to provide candidates for the club officers and directors at large. This year Dorothy K6DSO and Larry (WA6MVJ) comprised the nominating committee and we’ll present the slate of candidates at this meeting. This year we’ll also be proposing some organizational changes that will require a vote by the membership. We’ll be discussing these thoroughly, explaining everything and answering any questions. Some of the changes are ones we have worked on for several years. Bill W1UUQ will also provide us some background that will help to define the issues we hope to address and how SBARC can position itself to reestablish our community relevance moving forward. Additional election information and schedule will go live on the website immediately after this months meeting. As we have done for the past few years, you will be able to vote in person, by mail, or using online voting. You will definitely want to attend this meeting or listen in on ZOOM. SBARC General Club Meeting Friday, October 18, 2024 at 7:30 PM (Doors open at 7pm) Goleta Union School District Board Room 401 North Fairview Avenue in Goleta Doors open at 7pm, meeting starts at 7:30pm Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87896497627?pwd=noXxHmQeFAWaaVIclEw31nRYweaEDF.1 Post expires at 11:59pm on Friday October 18th, 2024 but will still be available in the archives.

We had a great turnout for the annual SBARC picnic this year. Dave AI6VX handled the cooking again this year and many others brought food to share. No one went away hungry. Of course Darryl held a transmitter hunt as is his custom. Many people helped to put this together. Dorothy K6DSO picked up the burgers, hotdogs, and all the fixings. Mike K6QD brought the new popup tents (they we didn’t use). Larry, WA6MVJ brought water and ice. Big thanks to everyone who helped out and helped clean up afterwards.   Post expires at 7:02pm on Thursday October 10th, 2024 but will still be available in the archives.

We’re going to break with the format of the past few meetings and show a video provided by Darryl KF6DI. The FT5ZM Amsterdam Island 2014 International DXpedition. It became known as the DXpedition of the year 2013-2014. Where is Amsterdam Island? Little Amsterdam, also known as Amsterdam Island and New Amsterdam, is an island of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands in the southern Indian Ocean. We’ll still be bringing everyone up to date with our repeater relocation efforts, and with any luck, the new 440 repeater will be in operation at its new location by meeting time. If you don’t have 446.40 in your radios, you will want t add it. You can also bring your HT to the meeting and I’ll program it for you if there’s time. If you have a programming cable, be sure to bring that along. We hope to see you this Friday! SBARC General Club Meeting Friday, September 20, 2024 at 7:30 PM (Doors open at 7pm) Goleta Union School District Board Room 401 North Fairview Avenue in Goleta Doors open at 7pm, meeting starts at 7:30pm Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82648150046?pwd=Xgys9KTbsEVTEtjaWmiLcLLwipkD7V.1 Topic: General Club Meeting – September 20, 2024 Time: September 20, 2024 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Post expires at 1:00am on Saturday September 21st, 2024 but will still be available in the archives.