General Club Meeting – April 21, 2023

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Our speaker for our April meeting will be Gene Swiech WB9COY. Gene will tell us how a team of STEM Ham Radio mentors have taken NOAA Sondes and re-purposed them for Amateur Radio use, adding cameras for high altitude JPEG photos. He will walk us through the modifications performed on a Sonde, and how to build out an infrastructure to receive the streaming data that creates a JPEG photo. Gene does this  in conjunction with high school students who are performing the launches, building receiving ground stations and antennas.

We will be having our meeting in the regular place – in person – and we’ll also Zoom the meeting for those than can’t make it in person.

SBARC General Club Meeting
Friday, April 21, 2023 at 7:30 PM
Goleta Union School District Board Room
401 North Fairview Avenue in Goleta

Doors Open at 7:00pm and the meeting will start at 7:30pm

SBARC K6TZ is also inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting if you can’t make it in person.

Topic: SBARC General Meeting – April 21, 2023
Time: “Doors” open at 7:00pm and meeting starts at 7:30pm

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Technical Mentoring and Elmering Net – 4/13/2023

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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 interesting net tonight with 5 check-ins plus net control Frank, K6FLD. Tonight’s topics included:

Tune in to the SBARC TM&E Net every Thursday at 8:00 PM local (2000 Hrs) and see what interesting ham radio questions might arise or ask some of your own! All club members and visitors are encouraged to check in to the net each week.

Double Fractional Loop Antenna

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Hand built by Richard K8NDS (sk). These rare antennas offer incredible performance in limited space.

This model provides coverage from 15m to 40m and will take full legal limit power. Super high Q and works well in areas close to, or even underneath power lines. Only needs 6 feet of elevation between the bottom loop and the ground and needs no ground plane. There were only a limited number of these made. Asking $2000 and includes rotator and tuner.

Information on these antennas can be found here: https://www.qrz.com/db/K8NDS

Contact Bruce KG6NRW – 805-683-2743

Post expires at 6:40am on Friday September 8th, 2023 but will still be available in the archives.

Technical Mentoring and Elmering Net – 4/6/2023

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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 interesting net tonight with 5 check-ins plus net control Brian, K6BPM. Tonight’s topics included:

  • Light attendance, general discussion not necessarily Ham radio related.

Tune in to the SBARC TM&E Net every Thursday at 8:00 PM local (2000 Hrs) and see what interesting ham radio questions might arise or ask some of your own! All club members and visitors are encouraged to check in to the net each week.

Technical Mentoring and Elmering Net – 3/30/2023

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We had another interesting net tonight with 9 check-ins plus net control Dave, AI6VX. Tonight’s topics included:

  • AREDN Mesh Mail (Ventura County).
  • 10 meter net.
  • System Fusion.
  • Meatballs or Sausage?

Tune in to the SBARC TM&E Net every Thursday at 8:00 PM local (2000 Hrs) and see what interesting ham radio questions might arise or ask some of your own! All club members and visitors are encouraged to check in to the net each week.

Technical Mentoring and Elmering Net – 3/23/2023

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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 interesting net tonight with 9 check-ins plus net control Ken, KA6KEN. Tonight’s topics included:

  • What’s the difference between a balun and unun?
  • How to choose the balun step-up ratio (4:1, 9:1, etc.) for my antenna system?
  • 10 meter FM and SSB this last weekend?

Tune in to the SBARC TM&E Net every Thursday at 8:00 PM local (2000 Hrs) and see what interesting ham radio questions might arise or ask some of your own! All club members and visitors are encouraged to check in to the net each week.