Technical Mentoring and Elmering Net – 1/6/2022

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We had another interesting net tonight with 9 check-ins plus net control Brian, K6BPM. Tonight’s topics included:

  • Deleepow Li-Po (Lithium Polymer) AA/AAA rechargeable batteries maintain 1.5 Volts from 100% to 0% charge.
  • Is it okay to power up a Ubiquiti M5 Rocket without an antenna?
  • West Mountain Radio emergency power products.
  • Diablo Peak repeater.
  • Lock picking.

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.

Holiday Rover Repairs

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Rovermaster Bob, Jim, Wayne, and I installed a new 100 watt solar panel and charge controller on the Rover. This was an upgrade from the very old 20 watt panel. Took about 3 hours. Ended up taking the Rover to Wayne’s house to be closer to really great tools and a killer machine shop.

– Michael K6RQV

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Technical Mentoring and Elmering Net – 12/30/2021

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We had another interesting net tonight with 8 check-ins plus net control Dave, AI6VX. Tonight’s topics included:

  • ICOM 2000 mobile rig having problems transmitting on Santa Barbara repeaters (receives fine). Hint: Needs 131.8 PL tone programmed.
  • Ken’s (KA6KEN) Raspberry Pi Shari DTMF commands and feedback issues.

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 – 12/23/2021

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We had another interesting net tonight with 4 check-ins plus net control Frank, K6FLD. Tonight’s topics included:

  • WB6OBB was able to obtain a Raspberry Pi 3B in this time of limited quantities to have his new ClearNode for AllStar built to have in his auto while traveling.
  • Discussion about local rainfall.
  • This year’s SBARC Christmas party.
  • Mike, W0JFB’s affiliation with the International Brotherhood of Real Bearded Santas.

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.

Merry Christmas from SBARC

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On behalf of myself and the SBARC Board of Directors, I would like to wish all our members a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Last year at this time we all thought that the dreaded virus would be behind us by the time Christmas 2021 rolled around. I guess not!

In a few days, we’ll be entering the third year of pandemic pandemonium. We’re not going to let it stop us though, and we are going to try to resume some sense of normalcy in the coming year.

Last year I wrote that I had hoped we would celebrate our 101st year as a club. It didn’t happen mostly because of in person committee meetings and difficulties planning a dinner given the restrictions in place. We can still make up for it next year and celebrate out 102nd year.

We plan to resume in-person monthly club meetings next year. We may do it on January 21st, however there has been some behind the scenes talk about having a co-club meeting with an amateur radio club in Arizona. That would require us to do a Zoom meeting. We’ll post something when we know more.

Once again, you all have our best wishes for this holiday season and the coming year. One way or another, we’ll see you all next year at the January 21st club meeting.

Brian Milburn – K6BPM
President – Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club

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Technical Mentoring and Elmering Net – 12/16/2021

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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:

  • Does SBARC have a digital (DMR) Net?
  • What is the frequency for the SBARC morning cuckoo net?
  •  2 meter single sideband net.

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.