General Club Meeting – February 20, 2026

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Following up on the last meeting, we are going to go deeper into how Artificial Intelligence is being used to take advantage of regular people. AI is moving so fast, that things change almost every day. Did you know that your voice can be cloned by simply saying “Hello – sorry you have the wrong number”.  We’ll explain how this works and how it can affect you, as well as a lot of new things that everyone should know.

On the fun side of things, we are going to show you how you can use AI to do all kinds of fun and productive things. And, do it all for free – and HAMs like FREE.. So be sure to bring something to take notes with!

Download AI Safety Hand-out from Meeting

Please join us this Friday!

SBARC General Club Meeting
Friday, February 20, 2026 at 7:30 PM (Doors open at 7pm)
Goleta Union School District Board Room
401 North Fairview Avenue in Goleta

Zoom Details:

Topic: February Club Meeting
Time: February 20, 2026 07:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Post expires at 1:01am on Saturday February 21st, 2026 but will still be available in the archives.

Technical Mentoring and Elmering Net – 2/12/2026

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

  • ClearNode/AllStar.
  • AllStar node numbers being reassigned?
  • Baofengs getting better?

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 – 2/5/2026

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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 Brian, K6BPM. Tonight’s topics included:

  • Commodore 64 retro conversation.
  • 5 1/4″ floppy disks retro conversation.
  • MeshCore discussion.

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 – 1/29/2026

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

  • Meshtastic vs. MeshCore.
  • AREDN.
  • Corrosion proofing antenna system (CorrosionX Spray).

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 – 1/22/2026

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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 Ken, KA6KEN. Tonight’s topics included:

  • How does linking of repeaters work, and how does AllStar work with people joining our nets from Oregon, etc.
  • Yaesu FT-991 programming?
  • SCE voltage variances at QTH.

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 – 1/15/2026

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

  • ICOM IC-7300 and “Super Antenna” (newsuperantenna.com).
  • ARRL VHF contest this weekend.
  • 3D printing.

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.

General Club Meeting – January 16 2026

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Scammers are looking for you! As artificial intelligence becomes more and more intelligent, scammers and crooks are using it to perfectly imitate legitimate services to trick you into divulging private financial or other information that will allow them to steel your identity and your money.

There are a lot of things you can do to identify and significantly reduce your vulnerability. We’ll be showing examples of some well crafted scam emails and how to determine whether they are legitimate or not.

This is a rapidly changing area and it is difficult to keep up. It is easy to fall victim to these scams and we’ll do our best to explain the things you need to know to protect yourself.

Please join us this Friday!

SBARC General Club Meeting
Friday, January 16, 2026 at 7:30 PM (Doors open at 7pm)
Goleta Union School District Board Room
401 North Fairview Avenue in Goleta

Zoom Details:

Topic: May Club Meeting
Time: January 16, 2026 07:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Meeting ID: 860 9019 4088
Passcode: 308220

Post expires at 1:01am on Saturday January 17th, 2026 but will still be available in the archives.