A report on the Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club Board of Directors meeting will occur at 0700 to 0800 during the Cuckoo Net on the normal repeaters on the Thursday following the second Wednesday of the month.
At this time, messages, suggestions, and comments will be transcribed , and these will be presented to the board at the next board meeting.
[AnythingPopup id=”7″]Sessions will take place at the Mental Health facility off of San Antonio Road on the second Saturday of odd numbered months.
Please check the club calendar for upcoming dates and times. More information is also available here.
The ARRL VE charges $15.00 for administering each test. You pay the fee for, and can take the test for as many license levels as you want in the time allotted. If you fail one test, you can arrange to take a different version of the same test for an additional $15, up to four of them !!!
Ventura County does VE sessions during evenly numbered months on the second Saturdays or Sundays.
Additional VE Sessions may take place at the end of any classes, such as for the Technician, General or Extra level licenses.
Again, contact Darryl Widman, KF6DI, at 969-2326, kf6di@sbarc.org, to pre-register for an upcoming session and to get hold of other particulars.
Also, alternate contacts are as follows:
Mike, K6QD, k6qd@cox.net, 680-2382 or
Tom, N6YX, tsaund@cox.net, 967-7351.
The Six Meter Net meets on the first Tuesday of every month.
The time is 2000 hours, or 8 PM, PT, on 50.125 MHz., upper sideband mode.
The nets starts on this frequency then after about 15 minutes it may or may not move to 50.145 MHz. USB to avoid prolonged interference on the National Calling Channel.
For upcoming dates, please check our events calendar.
All stations using the upper sideband mode (vertical or horizontal polarization) are welcome to check into the net.
Dave K6HWN conducted a great discussion on station grounding. Steve KI6HGH provided a lot of technical information as did Theo KK6YYZ who is a licensed electrician.
You can read more about the Technical Mentoring and Elmering Net here.
Listen in next week on Thursday at 8:00pm for another great discussion.
The Rover is back at the Red Cross Chapter Headquarters on Alamar Rd. The repeater can be on the air anytime the Club Station is open. The fequencies are 144.930 Mhz. output, (where you listen) and 147.585 MHz. input, (where you transmit). The PL is the standard 131.8 Hertz.
Ventura County has a similar repeater with a 127.3 PL.
Repeaters on this frequency pair are usually on the air for practice or for an event, but they will not be on the air all the time !!!
We are trying to get more members of SBARC on the Rover Repeater. The Rover is not on all the time, but can be turned on by request during regular [AnythingPopup id=”2″].
3D printer in action
The January Club Meeting featured an interesting presentation by Julianne Walsh on 3D printing. She brought along a working 3D printer to demonstrate and a couple of “home brew” printers to show. 3D printing is going to be the revolution of the decade and will soon be able to print almost everything from tools to human organs. Thanks Julianne for the great presentation!
Post expires at 11:00pm on Monday February 2nd, 2015 but will still be available in the archives.
Last nights net was very active with a lot of good discussion about antennas and lead lines. Two of the participants have recently installed new end fed antennas that have impressive all band, 6m to 160m coverage. The particular models we discussed are the DXtreme from UTILMAX Antennas.
We also operated JT65 with several of the checkins participating. Jt65 is a fun mode that works especially well with very weak signals. There are several JT65 programs available for Windows and Mac. The image below was captured last month using a JT65 variant called JT65-HF-HB9HQX Edition. Click on the image below to view it full size.
JT65 operating on 10m
We will be going on the air next week and learn more about this mode, so try to check in!
