General Club Meeting – October 21, 2022

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The October  meeting will feature a presentation by Steve Noll, WA6EJO, on antennas and propagation. This is a MUST-SEE meeting for everyone. Steve does great presentations with lots of actual hands-on examples using his collection of 10 GHz gear and visual aids.

This will be a live demonstration exploring radiation patterns and polarization of a variety of antennas from ground planes to loop Yagis to helices, plus actual demonstrations of a variety of propagation phenomena including ducting, refraction, diffraction, knife edging, Fresnel zone, velocity of propagation, and more.

If you would like to know more about the black magic of radio waves and how to use them, you don’t want to miss Steve’s presentation. He is an expert in the field.

Steve Noll, WA6EJO, has been active in Ham Radio for the past 40 years. He pioneered 2-way Amateur Radio Laser communications in the late 1970s and operated an experimental 23 centimeter repeater and an X-Band beacon in Ventura for many years. Steve chaired several of the West Coast VHF/UHF Conferences in the 1990s where he also built and ran the antenna gain and pattern plotting range. He is a member of the Amateur Television Network and is a founding member of the MAKE Ventura makerspace. Steve retired from Advanced Photonix after 22 years as their Senior Test Engineer.

We will also be hosting this meeting on Zoom, but you won’t get as much out of the presentation as you will if you attend in person! Please try to get there, you won’t regret it!

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

Zoom Details
Topic: SBARC General Club Meeting
Time: Oct 21, 2022 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83600275793?pwd=QnBEMXVrOVozcS9BRUF0OFZFc3Bldz09

Meeting ID: 836 0027 5793
Passcode: 326930

We hope to see you all at the meeting!

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Slate of Candidates for 2023

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This year I appointed 3 members to serve on the nominating committee. The 3 members were Dave – AI6VX, Doc – W6EW, and Tom – N6YX. They completed their mission and presented a slate of nominees at the last board meeting. I want to thank Dave, Doc and Tom for volunteering for this important function.

The slate of nominees for 2023 are as follows:

Brian Milburn K6BPM President / CEO
Larry Martinez WA6MVJ Secretary
Tom Saunders N6YX Treasurer / CFO
Levi Maaia K6LCM Director at Large
Dave Schmidt AI6VX Director at Large
Wayne Beckman AF6GX Director at Large
Mike Wapner K6QD Director at Large
Matt Lechliter W6XC Director at Large

We will officially be opening additional nominations for all positions at the October 21 2022 meeting. Any member in good standing can nominate another member in good standing for any elected position above. A member in good standing is any member who is paid up on their dues. Additionally, a nominee must be a member in good standing for the period of 28 days prior to the election. This year, that day is October 21, 2022.

This year we will be allowing on-line voting, mail in voting, and in-person voting. As such, there are various cutoff dates we need to set so that we can do all our work behind the scenes. Here is the schedule:

  • October 21 – Open nominations from the floor at meeting.
  • November 6 – Nominations from the floor close at midnight.
  • November 10 – Mail-in and online voting begins at midnight.
  • November 16 – Mail-in and Online ballots close at midnight.
  • November 18 – Election night – In-person voting, tallying, etc.

There is also a bylaws change proposal on the ballot this year. The bylaw changes mostly involve the way we now handle the membership system, and the way we pay bills and expenses. Normal procedures such as auto-pay, credit card and debit card purchases, were never addressed in the current Bylaws, however it is the way we pay most bills and expenses. The proposed changes merely bring the Bylaws up-to-date with the times.

You can view the proposed changes here: https://sbarc.org/Downloads/BylawEdits_10-2022.pdf

Brian – K6BPM
President, Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club

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Technical Mentoring and Elmering Net – 10/13/2022

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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 8 check-ins plus net control Frank, K6FLD. Tonight’s topics included:

  • Brian, K6BPM sent us all an e-mail regarding a new iOS app for AllStar – “RepeaterPhone”. At $7.99 those of us that have downloaded and tried it like it so far. Finally, a substitute for EchoLink on iPhone!
  • Cell phone coverage issues.
  • Florescent bulb LED retrofit options.
  • Router manufacturer.
  • Outdoor WIFI cameras with PTZ and affordable.

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 – 10/6/2022

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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 14 check-ins plus net control Brian, K6BPM. Tonight’s topics included:

  • Tom, N6QDI in Ventura asked about electronics stores nearby.
  • AllStar, connecting faster when using a node or iOS app?

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.

EASY DIGI™ Board kit by KF5INZ / Wireless Telephone Transmitter Model WTT-20

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EASY DIGI™ Board kit by KF5INZ – $7.00  Photo
A convenient, single board, isolated, a digital interface that works for almost all of the digital modes on HF and VHF/UHF. Works with DIGIPAN, FLDIGI, MTTY, MMSSTV, and most all other sound card programs! It consists of two 600-ohm line transformers for audio input and output from your pc to your transceiver and an optocoupler push-to-talk circuit that works off of an RS-232 port on your computer.

Wireless Telephone Transmitter Model WTT-20 – $7.00  Photo-1  Photo-2
A small classic “bug” kit. Build a unique and versatile telephone transmitter on a miniature PC board. The completed project connects to a landline telephone, using line power (no battery needed) to transmit the audio from the call on 70-130 MHz.

If you are interested in both I am discounting them to $10.00 for the pair!

Contact Levi Maaia, K6LCM / Email – k6lcm@arrl.net

 

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Technical Mentoring and Elmering Net – 9/29/2022

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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 7 check-ins plus net control Dave, AI6VX. Tonight’s topics included:

  • When calculating the length of a dipole antenna, is the counterpoise included or just the radiator?
  • Contest this weekend.
  • Tuning an antenna.

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 – 9/22/2022

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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 13 check-ins plus net control Ken, KA6KEN. Tonight’s topics included:

  • Xeigu Q90 .5~30MHz meter 20 watt SDR HF radio.
  • Gene, WB9COY’s High School hot air balloon w/ham radio equipment on board.

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.