SBARC May 2025 General Club Meeting

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Every year at our May general meeting we celebrate Old Timers Night. This allows us the opportunity to honor those with multiple decades of experience in amateur radio. Many of our more “seasoned” members have been SBARC members for most, if not all of their time as licensed hams. This is good opportunity to thank them for their service to the club and to the amateur radio community in general.

We are also going to look a the world of Software Defined Radio which has been posphoned for the past couple off months. While these radios can listen to amateur radio frequencies, you can also explore the radio waves that are all around you. These radios are fun to use and the software for them is generally free.

This is an in person meeting and will also be available on Zoom.

SBARC General Club Meeting
Friday, May 16, 2025 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

Zoom Details:

Topic: SBARC General Club Meeting – May 16, 2025
Time: May 16, 2025 07:00 PM Pacific Time Join Zoom Meeting

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Post expires at 1:00am on Saturday May 17th, 2025 but will still be available in the archives.

Technical Mentoring and Elmering Net – 5/8/2025

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The audio archive of this and other SBARC nets have been indefinitely discontinued. Hopefully the audio recordings will be resumed before too long by another local ham enthusiast with the technical ability and resources necessary to do so.

We had another interesting net tonight with 6 check-ins plus net control Dave, AI6VX. Tonight’s topics included:

  • Why do 1/2 wave whip antennas do better than shorter ones without a ground plane? (Carbon Fiber car body).
  • What would be a good way to implement a 162 MHz AIS antenna on my sailboat that has no ground plane available?

Tune in to the SBARC TM&E Net every Thursday at 8:00 PM local 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 – 4/24/2025

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The audio archive of this and other SBARC nets have been indefinitely discontinued. Hopefully the audio recordings will be resumed before too long by another local ham enthusiast with the technical ability and resources necessary to do so.

We had another interesting net tonight with 4 check-ins plus net control Ken, KA6KEN. Tonight’s topics included:

  • Ken working on APU from the airport.
  • SBARC Carpinteria station.
  • AllStar.

Tune in to the SBARC TM&E Net every Thursday at 8:00 PM local 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 – 4/17/2025

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The audio archive of this and other SBARC nets have been indefinitely discontinued. Hopefully the audio recordings will be resumed before too long by another local ham enthusiast with the technical ability and resources necessary to do so.

We had another interesting net tonight with 5 check-ins plus net control Warren, KN6ZZI. Tonight’s topics included:

  • Starlink
  • Warrens DXPidition to Africa.
  • 6 meter propagation.
  • General ham radio discussions.

Tune in to the SBARC TM&E Net every Thursday at 8:00 PM local 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.

April 18, 2025 General Club Meeting

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Since we assume that everyone is interested in radio, we’ll be looking at some various types of software defined radios. While these radios can listen to amateur radio frequencies, you can also explore the radio waves that are all around you. These radios are fun to use and the software for them is generally free.

 

Please join us this Friday!

SBARC General Club Meeting
Friday, April 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM (Doors open at 7pm)
Goleta Union School District Board Room
401 North Fairview Avenue in Goleta

Zoom Details:

SBARC K6TZ is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: April Club Meeting
Time: Apr 18, 2025 07:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 864 2227 4349
Passcode: 867922

Post expires at 1:06am on Saturday April 19th, 2025 but will still be available in the archives.

Technical Mentoring and Elmering Net – 4/10/2025

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The audio archive of this and other SBARC nets have been indefinitely discontinued. Hopefully the audio recordings will be resumed before too long by another local ham enthusiast with the technical ability and resources necessary to do so.

We had another interesting net tonight with 3 check-ins plus net control Dave, AI6VX. Tonight’s topics included:

  • KiwiSDR 2
  • In a tube amplifier one of the tubes has developed a black spot, does it need to be replaced?

Tune in to the SBARC TM&E Net every Thursday at 8:00 PM local 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 – 4/3/2025

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The audio archive of this and other SBARC nets have been indefinitely discontinued. Hopefully the audio recordings will be resumed before too long by another local ham enthusiast with the technical ability and resources necessary to do so.

We had another interesting net tonight with 4 check-ins plus net control Brian, K6BPM. Tonight’s topics included:

  • Satellite tape measure antenna.
  • 3D printing.
  • Purchased used IC751 and the display won’t illuminate.

Tune in to the SBARC TM&E Net every Thursday at 8:00 PM local 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.