For Sale Yaesu FT-847 & FT-1000MP Mark-V Transcievers

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  1. Yaesu FT-847 Transceiver with the FC-20 Automatic Antenna Tuner and the SP-8 External Speaker with filter.  This a 100 watt HF base station with 6 meter, 2 meter and 70 cm included at 50 watts.
  2. Yaesu FT-1000MP Mark-V Transceiver with filters installed. This is a high-end 200 watt HF base Station with advanced digital signal processing built in.  It includes a built in automatic antenna tuner.

Both radios are in excellent condition and the seller has all the original shipping boxes.

Contact Ed K6SHU via email: ERS@Me.Com for pricing.

Post expires at 9:32am on Wednesday February 22nd, 2017 but will still be available in the archives.

Program for General Club Meeting – February 19, 2016

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Orville K Beach W6BIOur speaker this month will be Orville Beach, W6BI. Orville was scheduled to speak last fall, but the closure if I-5 that evening created a colossal traffic jam, and he was forced to turn back. This time, hopefully, things will be back to normal and Orville will be able to make it to our meeting in good time.

Orville K. Beach, W6BI, is a member of the Simi Settlers Amateur Radio Club of Simi Valley, California. Orville claims he is now All Digital, All the Time! He earned his Novice license in 1967 with the call of WN6WEY and has held an Amateur Extra class license for the past 17 years and has acquired the vanity call of W6BI.

As an example of All Digital, All the Time, look at his operating style:

  • CW for four years
  • RTTY for 11 years (teletypes, homebrewed terminal units, then homebrewed computer interfaces and programs)
  • VHF Packet radio for about 10 years – helped build up a packet network down the California coast and east to Tucson
  • QRT off and on for a couple of years
  • Pactor for 2 years
  • PSK31 off and on for a couple of years
  • 2014..  Digital Mesh radio on the microwave bands

Although he enjoys digital more than analog radio, he says that his principal interests are technical as well as ragchewing. Orville’s  topic will be, “Digital Mesh Networking for Amateur Radio.” This should prove to be one of the more interesting topics we have had recently, so everyone should try to male the meeting. We will be hosting Orville for dinner before the meeting at Cody’s in the Turnpike Shopping Center at 5:30 PM. Everyone is welcome to join is.

We hold our Club meetings at the Goleta Union School District, 401 N. Fairview Ave. in Goleta, right across the street from the Goleta Library. Doors open at 7:00 PM and the meeting starts at 7:30 PM.

Post expires at 11:00pm on Friday February 19th, 2016 but will still be available in the archives.

Technical Mentoring and Elmering Net – February 4, 2016

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The audio archive can best 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 good net tonight with 12 check-ins including net control, Brian K6BPM and some chat room visitors! Tonight’s subjects included:

  • James, KK6ZTP and his new Heil HTH microphone ($30.00) with his Yaesu FT-60R.
  • Using stubbed ground radials for a vertical antenna.
  • Congress’ vote/sponsors of home owners associations and ham radio antennas.
  • Yaesu FT-897 & tuning increments (fast mode?).
  • Echolink Repeaters in our area and talks about AllStar, IRLP, and Winsystem.

Tune in to the SBARC TM&E Net next Thursday at 8:00 PM (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 TM&E net each week and join in with questions and /or answers to and contribute the knowledge of new and seasoned amateur radio operators alike.

Technical Mentoring and Elmering Net – January 28, 2016

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We had another good net tonight with 12 check-ins including net control (Ken – KA6KEN), and some chat room visitors! Tonight’s subjects included:

  • Amateur Radio Mesh Networks – What are they and how do they work?
  • HF Antenna building using a rain gutter.
  • Dipole Antennas.
  • Baluns.
  • Why is 455 the most used IF?
  • Monitoring of cargo ships and tracking vessels in the Santa Barbara harbor.

Tune in to the SBARC TM&E Net next Thursday at 8:00 PM (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 TM&E net each week and join in with questions and /or answers to and contribute the knowledge of new and seasoned amateur radio operators alike.

Technical Mentoring and Elmering Net – January 21, 2016

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The audio archive can best 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 yet another good net tonight with 14 check-ins including 2 new hams, net control (Levi, K6LCM), and some chat room visitors! Tonight’s subjects included:

  • What does resonant circuit mean when related to LC circuits and what has to happen to make them resonate.
  • Which HTs are available that are not too expensive and easy to use.
  • Stealth antennas for apartment, condo, townhouse and HOA considerations.
  • Alpha military antennas.

Tune in to the SBARC TM&E Net next Thursday at 8:00 PM (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 TM&E net each week and join in with questions and /or answers to and contribute the knowledge of new and seasoned amateur radio operators alike.