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SBARC/WB6OBB Annual Christmas Party

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You are invited to the annual SBARC/WB6OBB Christmas Party. We will be holding this event on Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 1:00 pm at Rusty’s Pizza Parlor location at 5934 Calle Real near the Walgreen’s Pharmacy on the mountain side of Calle Real east of Fairview. This is a BYOP (Buy your own pizza) event and please bring a wrapped gag gift for the gift exchange! These parties are usually well attended so this is a chance to visit with a lot of people whom you might not see during the year. Stop by for a few minutes, or stay for the whole event! No club meeting this month. We’ll look forward to seeing you at the party! Post expires at 11:00pm on Saturday December 16th, 2023 but will still be available in the archives.

SBARC Summer Potluck Barbecue – September 10th 2023

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We’re back on for this weekend! You are invited to join us for a good old fashioned summertime potluck barbecue. SBARC will host this years get-together at Stow Grove Park on La Patera Lane in Goleta just before it intersects Cathedral Oaks Rd. We will be in Area 3 This once-a-year SBARC event will be held on September 10, 2023, from 10:00 AM until 2:30 PM.  SBARC will supply delicious 1/3 lb. hamburgers and cheeseburgers with all the fixings for all SBARC members and their immediate families. For non-members, burgers will be $5 each. You are welcome to bring your own beverages and we will have cold sodas and water available for $1. Since this is a potluck, we are encouraging everyone to bring something to share. You can bring a salad, potato chips, beans, hot dish, cookies or other desert, whatever you like and whatever you have time for. We hope you will join us for a relaxing meal and take the time to catch up with old friends. Of course, we can always use a little help setting things up before the event and cleaning things up afterwards. If you have a little time we would surely appreciate your help. Please RSVP so we know how much food to buy. Call our message line at 805-456-K6TZ (456-5689) or send a message through our Contact Us link and let us know if you are attending and how many people you will be bringing. Hope to see you there! Post expires at 1:05am on Monday September 11th, 2023 but will still be available in the archives.

General Club Meeting – July 21, 2023

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Last month we will had a presentation from Steve Waterman K4CJX about the SHARES program. The counterpoint of the SHARES program is Winlink, so this meeting we’re are going to learn a little more about it. Winlink has become the de-facto standard for emcomm groups everywhere. It allows you to send and receive email messages using HF or VHF radio. This meeting will serve as an introduction to Winlink, what you need to use it, and how it works. We’ll get into more details about operation at a later meeting. This is an in person meeting and will also be available on Zoom and YouTube. SBARC General Club Meeting Friday, July 21, 2023 at 7:30 PM (Doors open at 7pm) Goleta Union School District Board Room 401 North Fairview Avenue in Goleta Zoom Details:  Topic: SBARC General Club Meeting – July 21, 2023 Time: July 21, 2023 07:00 PM Pacific Time  Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82807008137?pwd=dzhEL1BUTnNOK3FwL0RVdnRUdzA3UT09 Meeting ID: 828 0700 8137 – Passcode: 325046   Post expires at 1:00am on Saturday July 22nd, 2023 but will still be available in the archives.

General Club Meeting – June 16, 2023

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This month we will have a presentation from Steve Waterman K4CJX. Steve is going to talk to us about the SHARES program. The SHARES (DHS CISA) high frequency (HF) radio program provides an extremely resilient means for users with a national security and emergency preparedness mission to inter-operably communicate when landline/cellular communications and the internet are unavailable. SHARES member agencies use existing HF radio resources to coordinate and transmit messages needed to perform critical functions, including those areas related to leadership, safety, maintenance of law and order, finance, and public health. SHARES provides the “E” in PACE (primary, alternate, contingency, emergency) planning for communications. About Steve Waterman: “Officially” retired (from network design/consulting company) Williamson County, TN – COMU Reserve Tennessee Emergency Management Agency COMU/ESC Active Member: FEMA RECCWG R, 4, 5, 10 FEMA R4 RECCWG AuxComm Subcommittee, Chair Co-Founder of Winlink: Immediate past president of ARSFI (non-profit that funds/runs Winlink operations) Currently on ARSFI BOD & Winlink Development Team Winlink Administrator for all services HANDOUTS – Be sure to download BEFORE the meeting! Meeting Handout: https://sbarc.org/Downloads/handout-6-23.pdf SHARES program Article:  https://sbarc.org/Downloads/shares_program.pdf For More Information, visit the SHARES Website: Click Here   This is an in person meeting and will also be available on Zoom and YouTube. SBARC General Club Meeting Friday, June 16, 2023 at 7:30 PM (Doors open at 7pm) Goleta Union School District Board Room 401 North Fairview Avenue in Goleta Zoom Details:  Topic: SBARC General Club Meeting – June 16, 2023 Time: June 16, 2023 07:00 PM Pacific Time  Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89047716328?pwd=QkNFR3hSRFdnLzFYMmMrcG8yN2NtZz09 Meeting ID: 890 4771 6328 – Passcode: 739530   Post expires at 11:00pm on Friday June 16th, 2023 but will still be available in the archives.

SBARC General Meeting – March 17, 2023

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We’re back! In person meetings are back to stay for awhile. Once again, we had a presenter lined up for this month but we had to reschedule until next month because of a conflict with other plans. But we’re on for April and I think you will enjoy the presentation. This month we’re going to talk about Artificial Intelligence, specifically ChatGPT. ChatGPT is an AI-powered chatbot that can communicate with users in natural language and provide information or assistance on a variety of topics. It is designed to simulate human conversation and provide helpful responses to users’ queries in real-time. The chatbot uses machine learning algorithms to understand user inputs and generate appropriate responses. It can be used for customer support, personal assistance, or general information seeking purposes. Like it or not, this IS the next big thing and it WILL affect you in all kinds of ways. We’ll have a presentation and some demonstrations that are sure to be interesting!   SBARC General Club Meeting Friday, March 17 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 SBARC K6TZ is also inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting if you can’t make it in person. Topic: SBARC General Meeting – March 17, 2023 Time: “Doors” open at 7:00pm and meeting starts at 7:30pm Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82745882888?pwd=TGMzVzNrTmp6eiswcU9jK0I3OEI3dz09 Passcode: 514505 Post expires at 11:00pm on Friday March 17th, 2023 but will still be available in the archives.

SBARC/WB6OBB Annual Christmas Party

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You are invited to the annual SBARC/WB6OBB Christmas Party. We will be holding this event on Saturday, December 17, 2022 at 1:00 pm at Rusty’s Pizza Parlor location at 5934 Calle Real near the Wallgreen’s Pharmacy on the mountain side of Calle Real east of Fairview. This is a BYOP (Buy your own pizza) event and please bring a wrapped gag gift for the gift exchange! These parties are usually well attended so this is a chance to visit with a lot of people whom you might not see during the year. Stop by for a few minutes, or stay for the whole event! No club meeting this month. We’ll look forward to seeing you at the party! Post expires at 11:00pm on Saturday December 17th, 2022 but will still be available in the archives.

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! Post expires at 11:00pm on Friday October 21st, 2022 but will still be available in the archives.