Technical Mentoring and Elmering Net – 5/6/2021

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We had another interesting net tonight with 11 check-ins plus net control Brian, K6BPM. Tonight’s topics included:

  • iPad storage issues.
  • Anti-virus software, yes or no?
  • Laptop Battery Conditioning.

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.

HF Antennas

HF antenna project.

2 classics available: Cushcraft A4S 4 element tribander with 40 m add-on and A3WS 3 element duobander for WARC bands with 30 m add-on. Both are in need of rehabilitation. Some small parts like pieces of capacity hats may be missing but should be available from Cushcraft / MFJ or sourced locally. This is a good, cheap project to get great HF antennas that may not look great but will perform well for sunspot Cycle 25. Either one $50 or both $85. 

Details from Paul W1PR – 805-69-GUD-DX (805-694-8339) or w1pr@arrl.net.

Expires 8/03/2021  Mike Williams, W0JFB

Technical Mentoring and Elmering Net – 4/29/2021

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We had another interesting net tonight with 11 check-ins plus net control Dave, AI6VX. Tonight’s topics included:

  • How efficient are Discone antennas on HF?
  • Are digital HF modes dependent on propagation and and can they be predictive of propagation for other modes?
  • Any hints on decommissioning an antenna tower and large Yagi antenna?
  • Interference/noise coming off LED lights power supplies.

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 – 4/22/2021

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We had another interesting net tonight with 8 check-ins plus net control Ken, KA6KEN. Tonight’s topics included:

  • 224.08 repeater linking to K6TZ (146.79) and what do the hams in Santa Barbara use 220 for these days?
  • New FCC regulation requiring hams to do RF measurements.
  • Antenna analyzer.

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.

Replay Club Meetings on YouTube

Care to revisit one of the awesome presentations from our socially distant streaming club meetings? We’ve assembled a YouTube playlist with our 2020-2021 General Club Meetings. Relive the action and catch up on anything you may have missed. From Amateur TV to Earth-Moon-Earth operations to SBARC telecom site tours, our meetings on archived on the SBARC channel.

Technical Mentoring and Elmering Net 4/15/2021

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We had another interesting net tonight with 7 check-ins plus net control Frank, K6FLD. Tonight’s topics included:

  • Troubleshooting RFI emanating from HP monitor given free with radio purchased from Yaesu.
  • General discussion and thoughts.

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.

April General (Zoom) Meeting – Solar Cycle 25

It you received last months issue of QST magazine, you may have noticed that Solar Cycle 25 is here!

After some regular club business is taken care of we are going to share a video about operating during a solar cycle that we think will be especially interesting to newer hams that have never experienced solar cycle operating before.

It is an “exciting time” for hams, and bands that are usually dead will come alive with activity. Even Technicians can get in on the action.

So please join us on Friday, April 16, 2021 on ZOOM! The virtual doors will open at 7:00pm and thee meeting will begin at 7:30pm.

SBARC K6TZ is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: SBARC General Club Meeting
Time: Apr 16, 2021 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87986436135

YouTube feed is here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfrkJ7zO58g

 

Post expires at 10:00pm on Friday April 16th, 2021 but will still be available in the archives.