Technical Mentoring and Elmering Net – 7/5/2018

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The audio archive of this net can best be followed by downloading the .mp3 file for the appropriate date here and listening with the media player of your choice. You can move the progress slider forward or backward to the subject of interest to you.

We had another informative net tonight with 8 check-ins plus net control, Brian – K6BPM and some chat room visitors! Tonight’s subjects included:

  • Antenna analyzers.
  • Battery packs for mobile including DMR Hot Spots.
  • Back-up batteries.
  • K6TZ 440 repeater seems to be down.

Tune in to the SBARC TM&E Net every Thursday at 8:00 PM local (2000 Hrs) and see what interesting questions will arise or ask some of your own! All club members and visitors are encouraged to check in to the net each week and join in with questions and /or answers and contribute the knowledge of new and seasoned amateur radio operators alike.

Silent Key – Bud Allain AC6WR

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image1Our friend and fellow ham Bud Allain AC6WR passed away on Friday, June 22 2018. Any visitor to the club station on Saturdays knew Bud. He was our “Assistant Shackmaster” for a few years and would drive all the way down from Buellton just to open the shack at 9am and close at 12pm. He would make the coffee, clean the room and take out the trash thanklessly every week. If you had a problem with a radio, Bud would take it home and fix it. He never complained, never late, and rarely missed a Saturday. He was a great guy, and we’ll miss him.

Bud’s obituary, written by his daughter Kathy,

Bud Allain passed away unexpectedly surrounded by family, Friday, June 22, 2018. He was born July 10, 1930, in Marshfield, Wisconsin.

Bud was preceded in death by his wife Gini Allain. He is survived by his daughters Kathy Allain, Sandra (Cheryl Chyla) Allain and his son Buddy (Kelley) Allain; four grandchildren, Zackary, Travis, Megan (Nick Davy), Austin, and four great grandchildren, Brayden, Lyla, Grayson and Emersyn; his sister Delores Knight of Stillwater, OK, and brother James (Kay) Allain of Clinton, IA.

In 1972 Bud and family moved from Wisconsin to Goleta as part of a job transfer with Delco Electronics, his employer until he retired as an engineer in 1993. For the next 10 years, he volunteered for Habitat for Humanity working tirelessly on several projects in the Santa Barbara community. In 2003, Bud and Gini moved to Buellton where his passion for ham radios rekindled. He was an active member in the Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club and would drive to SB each Saturday to participate in meetings, assist with club business and just hang out with club members. Word also spread in the valley that there was an expert tube radio repairman who could fix any radio, no matter the condition or age!

You were a rare soul and you will be missed, dad.

A funeral mass will be held Friday, July 6, 10:00am, at Old Mission Santa Ines in Solvang. A committal service will follow at Calvary Cemetery in Santa Barbara.

From Darryl KF6DI

On March 16, 1998, this tall, quiet, kindly fellow named ‘Bud’ Allain came to the third session of the Technician classes I was teaching at the Goleta Valley Community Hospital and asked if he could join the class. Of course I threw him out! Just kidding. I found out later that he could have taught the class, too. BTW, the hospital allowed us to use the downstairs classroom for 10 sessions twice a year for several years. Bud asked and commented most intellectually during the classes. Later, he told me that he had previously held an engineering position at American Telephone and Telegraph Company —AT&T.

He took and passed the Technician exam and became KF6DZD. For Bud, it wasn’t too difficult a task to learn what was needed to be able to pass the General class exam and, subsequently, the Amateur Extra exam, becoming AC6WR.

If you have ever had a chance to study all the hieroglyphics on the chalk board in the Club’s outer room at the Red Cross, you might wonder whom you could credit that to. Of course, our Shackmaster – Bud! If you ever had a technical question that was difficult to find an answer to, all you had to do was save it for Saturday morning and ask Bud at the Club station. You would get your answer. Bud was always the first one there, after driving all the way from his home in Buellton, in order to make that delicious coffee that he made. And, he was always the last to leave after locking up the shack.

I will miss you, Bud. It was great having you in my class so long ago. It was also great seeing your smiling face whenever I paid a visit to the Club station. 73 my good friend. Didididahdidah

Darryl, KF6DI

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Technical Mentoring and Elmering Net – 6/28/2018

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The audio archive of this net can best be followed by downloading the .mp3 file for the appropriate date here and listening with the media player of your choice. You can move the progress slider forward or backward to the subject of interest to you.

We had another informative net tonight with 11 check-ins plus net control, Ken – KA6KEN and some chat room visitors! Tonight’s subjects included:

  • SBARC 2018 Field Day and past field days, great discussion!

Tune in to the SBARC TM&E Net every Thursday at 8:00 PM local (2000 Hrs) and see what interesting questions will arise or ask some of your own! All club members and visitors are encouraged to check in to the net each week and join in with questions and /or answers and contribute the knowledge of new and seasoned amateur radio operators alike.

Technical Mentoring and Elmering Net – 6/21/2018

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The audio archive of this net can best be followed by downloading the .mp3 file for the appropriate date here and listening with the media player of your choice. You can move the progress slider forward or backward to the subject of interest to you.

We had another informative net tonight with 11 check-ins plus net control, Chuck – K5CAW and some chat room visitors! Tonight’s subjects included:

  • With AnyTone DMR D868UV audio volume and amplitude varies from extremely low to very hot depending on who’s talking. Is there any way to adjust the mic gain?
  • New Hytera PDC-760 LTE/3G/Wifi radio & cell-phone device.
  • New BTech DMR Radio – Everything AnyTone offers plus some.
  • This weekends Field Day operating announcements.

Tune in to the SBARC TM&E Net every Thursday at 8:00 PM local (2000 Hrs) and see what interesting questions will arise or ask some of your own! All club members and visitors are encouraged to check in to the net each week and join in with questions and /or answers and contribute the knowledge of new and seasoned amateur radio operators alike.

Field Day 2018 – Saturday June 23 thru Sunday June 24

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Directions to the SBARC Elings Park Field Day site: If you are coming from the south (see map above), take 101 to Carrillo and head southwest toward the Mesa. Turn west on Cliff Drive and follow 3/4; mile (past Monrow Elementary) to the Elings Park South entrance (not well marked). If you are coming from the north, take 101 to Las Positas and head south. Turn east on Cliff Drive and continue about 1/4 mile to the Elings Park South entrance (not well marked). In either case, turn north into the park passing through a gate and then turn left at the fork, passing through another gate, and continue on the dirt road. Stay LEFT at the next fork (the dirt road becomes one way at this point) and park in the dirt parking lot (we will be sharing with the hang glider folks). Continue on foot until you see the SBARC Rover at the top of the hill. ADVISORY: There is no driving access to the site from the Elings Park main gate off Las Positas.

Directions to the SBARC Elings Park Field Day site: If you are coming from the south (see map above), take 101 to Carrillo and head southwest toward the Mesa. Turn west on Cliff Drive and follow ¾ mile (past Monrow Elementary) to the Elings Park South entrance (not well marked). If you are coming from the north, take 101 to Las Positas and head south. Turn east on Cliff Drive and continue about $frac14; mile to the Elings Park South entrance (not well marked). In either case, turn north into the park passing through a gate and then turn left at the fork, passing through another gate, and continue on the dirt road. Stay LEFT at the next fork (the dirt road becomes one way at this point) and park in the dirt parking lot (we will be sharing with the hang glider folks). Continue on foot until you see the SBARC Rover at the top of the hill.  (Lat/Long 34.410028, -119.735822) ADVISORY: There is no driving access to the site from the Elings Park main gate off Las Positas.

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This year we’re putting the “Field” back in Field Day!  We will be operating from Elings Park up on the hill where the hang gliders take off. We will be operating from 11:00am Saturday until 11:00am Sunday, and we still have several time slots to fill, so we would really appreciate your help. We need two volunteers per time slot, one to operate the station, and one to help with outreach to the public (answering questions, etc). Newly licensed (in the past year) and inactive hams – we’ll teach you how to work the GOTA station (check out the ARRL Field Day intro and the ARRL Field Day Rules for more information); so, if you are new to the hobby or just getting back into it, we have a spot for you too! We also need people to help set up before-hand, and help break-down at the end. Operating/outreach time-slots are four hours long (but if you can only do something less, we’ll still fit you in).  Your club needs you! Let’s make this a fun field day for everyone.

We will bring the Rover to just above the hang gliding area at 7:00am on Saturday, June 23.  We will need a crew of four or more to assemble the antenna and put it on the Rover’s mast, but we’ll need more people to help assemble di-poles and erect antenna masts.

We need a minimum of TEN volunteers to kick this off – six operators andarrl-field-day-2013-date-and-url-removed-by-ka four people for outreach (fewer for outreach since the public won’t be there during the dark hours). It would be awesome to get twelve operator time-slots filled (two people per time-slot) for a total of SIXTEEN volunteers so we can run two operator stations! You are more than welcome to work a 4-hour operator shift and a 4-hour outreach shift, if you so desire, or even take two operator shifts at different stations and/or times (lowering the need for as many total volunteers). Feel free to mix it up and hang out.

If you can help out in any way, please contact us immediately, and let us know what hours you are available. Ideally, we’ll be filling shifts for these six time slots: 11am-3pm, 3pm-7pm, 7pm-11pm, 11pm-3am, 3am-7am, and 7am-11am, but again, let us know when you can help, and we’ll fit you in!

Post expires at 1:00am on Monday June 25th, 2018 but will still be available in the archives.