This Hammarlund SP-600 is a 1950’s vintage military quality receiver using vacuum tube technology. This receiver is well know for its sensitivity and covers 55 Khz to 54 Mhz AM and CW (Can receive SSB).
The radio is in very poor condition and will need a lot of TLC to get it working. A good project for someone who likes to refurbish high quality older gear.
This radio is being offered for free to a good home.
Contact Darryl, KF6DI, kf6di@sbarc.org or by phone at 805-969-2326.
It’s that time again and Rick is looking for interested HAM Operators who wish to participate in the Fiesta Parade and then the ever so famous post parade Bar-B-Que. You have your choice of two tickets to the Rodeo OR the meal at the BBQ. The parade is on Friday, August 7th and it starts at noon. If you are interested please let Rick know as soon as you can. He is running behind on organizing this because of so many events going on in such a short period of time. This has always been the fun event so we hope you can join in the fun.
Contact: Rick Whitaker at rickwhtr@cox.net
Also, the Santa Barbara Triathlon is coming on August 22, so please keep your schedule open to help if you can!
Cynthia McAlexander – May 1, 2015 – With your help, ham radio may be coming to Carpinteria High School! I met with the Carpinteria High School Principal, Gerardo Cornejo, on April 21, 2015 to propose the introduction of Ham Radio to the students. Mr. Cornejo was supportive of the effort and related that a Ham Radio club or after school program could be established on campus.
To register a group as an official Carpinteria High School club, a presentation must be made to the student body at an all school assembly that is usually held at the end of September. Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club members could introduce our programs and give interested students a tour of the Rover. The Student Council must vote to accept a club.
SBARC may also register to be an after school program. Several classrooms are set aside for the afterschool program, which runs from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM. There is also a teacher coordinator who works with various programs to set hours and use resources.
Mr. Cornejo is interested in ham radio and appreciates the value of a network of radio operators for community service and emergency/disaster situations.
Club members have until September of this year to set goals for the school program, design the program and implementation and plan staffing. Please e-mail or call me with your ideas and a few meeting times in June. Thank you for your help!
Cynthia McAlexander, KK6BZU – hamradios@mail.com – 805-684-1418
The Ventura folks are always supportive and help out with Santa Barbara special events. Here’s our opportunity to help them! They have several events coming up later this summer and in the fall, and they have extended the invitation to all of us here to come down and participate!
Upcoming Ventura County ARES / Public Service Events
9 August – Arroyo-Simi Half-Marathon – Steve King KE6WEZ is calling for volunteers; Aid Station / Check-point communications. Contact Steve / KE6WEZ at ke6wez@gmail.com
22-23 August – Wings Over Camarillo Airshow – Civil / Private aircraft airshow, WWII Warbirds; we provide safety eyes and ears for the event organizers. See http://wingsovercamarillo.com/ contact Ted / KI6PTX at ki6ptx@arrl.net
12-13 Sept – Ventura-Hueneme Marathon – 3rd year running of the Pier to Pier Marathon and Bike Ride – see http://www.venturamarathon.com — contact Stewart / KG6BOV at kg6bov@arrl.net — Normally need 40 operators for this event
7 Nov – New event – Red Cross fundraiser Bike Ride Operation: Ride for the Red! This bike ride is a fundraiser and proceeds will go to support Red Cross Services to the Armed Forces. This ride is a 30 mile (50K) / 50 mile / 100 mile that starts and finishes at the Red Cross in Camarillo with loops through TO; Moorpark, Saticoy, Ventura, Oxnard, Hueneme and Camarillo. contact Stewart / KG6BOV kg6bov@arrl.net — Expect to need about 40 operators for this event
Many thanks to Rebecca Anderson of the American Red Cross for get great presentation on “Be Red Cross Ready.” Rebecca specifically focused on the types of emergencies we might face in Santa Barbara and explained how we can prepare ourselves in advance so that we can survive the first few days of an emergency on our own. No matter how well we think we are prepared, we can always learn something new. We certainly did this night. Virtually everyone walked away with additional knowledge as well as some great handouts from the Red Cross.
The full audio is available in the General Meeting Audio Archives section.
Post expires at 7:15pm on Saturday August 1st, 2015 but will still be available in the archives.
Darryl, KF6DI – Thank you to each of you good folks — Eric Satterlee, KG6WXC, from Port Hueneme; Bill Gross, W6FF, from Goleta; Bill Talanian, W1UUQ, from Goleta; Harry Rouse, K6PDQ, from Goleta; Ken Alker, KA6KEN, from Goleta; Bob Muller, KB6CTX, from Santa Barbara; Dorothy Oksner, K6DSO, from Carpinteria; Rick Whitaker, KG6VLB, from Santa Barbara and Tom Saunders, N6YX, from Goleta — we had a fun, successful and profitable Bazaar!
Starting many weeks ago with the gathering of Junque for our sale from as far away as the Satellite Amateur Radio Club’s Swapfest and Barbecue, from our Club Station at the Red Cross and from homes around the area and moving a whole lot of it from our Club’s storage container Friday afternoon and then actually taking it home with us overnight and then bright and early Saturday morning bringing it all over to the Goleta Union School District and unloading it from our vehicles and laying it all out in the rear parking lot there in a pretty orderly fashion and then continuing right into selling of much of it to our Club members and visitors so that they might enhance their collections, somehow we actually cleared around $1,250. Hey, that’s pretty good for a Saturday morning. It even outdid last year’s effort.
You know, if it weren’t for each of you pitching in and helping in whatever manner you did, this wouldn’t have happened. You were all terrific and I want you to know how much I appreciate what you did. So much of what makes a successful event is often unseen by the members. But that’s fine. I have always felt that the ones having the most fun were the ones who rolled up their sleeves and pitched in for the effort.
It was a very nice day. The weather was delightful, the doughnuts were delicious, the drinks were cold and the coffee was hot. Without naming names, you each helped out in your own way and we all appreciate what you did. I got a bit of sunshine on me which felt good. Around noontime you might have seen Mr. John Moon stuffing what looked like tons of unsold test equipment into his van to be carted off to parts unknown. For that he crossed our palms with a couple hundred bucks. Pretty good for stuff no one would want. For many years he has come to help us as well as himself at our Bazaars and it is appreciated.
When all was put away, the white tables belonging to the GUSD were returned to the Board Room and it was locked up, the parking lot given a sharp eye for evidence we had been there and swept clean, I have the feeling that they wouldn’t mind if we asked them if we could use their facility again next year!
Thank you, one and all, for helping me put on a fun and profitable Bazaar. I hope you enjoyed it. See you soon.
Darryl, KF6DI
2015 Bazaar Chm.
Post expires at 6:59am on Friday July 24th, 2015 but will still be available in the archives.
The timestamps below are best followed by downloading the Mp3 file here and listening with Windows Media Player.
The Technical Mentoring and Elmering net on Thursday, June 18th had 10 check-ins plus net control Dave (K6HWN). Discussions included:
00:12:00 Shackmaster Dave’s thought experiment/idea that of someone in Santa Barbara with a good gain antenna on the roof for 2 Meters terminated in a 50 ohm resistor or germanium diode. And, if they had the ability to feed into that diode at will when they flip the switch on or off, a signal of .81 MHz pure sine wave from an audio generator. With that set up and the .81 MHz signal was turned on, what would happen or be heard? Listen to the discussion and thoughts here.
00:24:20 Brian (K6BPM) had a question that when he is transmitting via RMS Express radio e-mail program (www.winlink.org) on 40 Meters the signal can be heard when he’s transmitting at the same time on 2 Meters, specifically the K6TZ repeater! The other hams listening to the net on 2 Meters could hear this artifact through their 2 M rigs speaker as far away from Santa Barbara as Port Hueneme while Brian was transmitting. Hear some thoughts regarding this phenomenon here.
00:35:00 I (K6FLD) asked Dennis (WB6OBB) if he had ever heard anything like my in-wall noise issue when I transmit on certain HF frequencies with my new end-fed antenna. I sounds like a loud hum emanating from the walls in the house and if the hair dryer is plugged in, the plug with GFI rattles like crazy and trips the GFI! Hear more about that here.
As I mentioned before, you can listen to the entire audio archive or go to the approximate time stamp listed at the beginning of each subject. It’s most accurate if you download the .mp3 audio file and play it in Windows Media Player or similar program.
Tune in to the SBARC Technical Mentoring and Elmering Net next Thursday at 8:00 PM or 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 Technical Mentoring and Elmering net each week and join in with questions and /or answers to and contribute the knowledge of new and seasoned amateur radio operators alike.
