Category Archives: Club News

We can’t see it from town, but the back mountain range is covered with snow! This is the view from the Diablo Peak live stream today. The camera is pointed at the City of Santa Barbara and you can see it in the foreground. Click on the picture to view it in a larger format. Post expires at 1:00am on Wednesday February 13th, 2019 but will still be available in the archives.

The rainstorm over the weekend brought us a nice little surprise when we opened up last Saturday. The outer doors to the club station are apparently not too waterproof! When the storm came through around dawn, it brought with it some high winds that hammered that side of the building with rain, and we had quite a bit of water come in covering most of the main room floor, and extending into the inner radio room a bit. Bill W1UUQ led the mop-up crew since he had the most experience swabbing decks! No damage done and the club station floor got a much needed mopping. Post expires at 8:00am on Monday February 11th, 2019 but will still be available in the archives.

Thanks to many generous donations via our GoFundMe campaign, the SBARC Telecommunications Services Committee is happy to announce that we have an operational  live webcam on Diablo Peak on Santa Cruz Island! Diablo is the tallest mountain on an ocean island in the lower 48 and a strategic location for gathering all types of scientific data including ship and aircraft traffic, weather and cloud patterns and amateur radio linking. Live video feed from Diablo Peak on Santa Cruz Island In September 2018, the legacy standard-definition camera stopped functioning. While we have raised enough funds to install this new HD camera, there continue to be ongoing expenses necessary in order to keep it operational. We continue to raise funds to support this impressive high-definition replacement unit. The camera allows aviators, mariners, researchers and public safety teams to ensure the safety of their island missions by providing a glimpse of the conditions in all directions around the island, in the channel and out to sea. It is an especially important asset for fire watch both on the island and looking back toward the Santa Barbara South Coast.  Unlike many strategic webcams, this live camera is available to anyone interested in taking a virtual trip to this remote, secluded promontory and peering off into the deep blue yonder! Levi C. Maaia, K6LCM Co-Chair, Telecommunications Services Committee Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club, Inc. a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public benefit corporation

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. We have excited grandkids coming to our house and will have a house full of family all weekend. Hopefully you will all enjoy your holidays as much as I hope to. In a few days, we’ll be starting our 99th year as a club. And, in just one year, SBARC will be celebrating its’ 100th anniversary. There are not many organizations of any kind that can claim that. We’ll be adding a new continuing agenda item for board and general meetings in 2019 for planning our 100th anniversary activities. We already have several ideas and will be soliciting ideas from our members. One of our ideas is to resurrect Key-Kilx for a special 100th Anniversary Edition. We’re hoping we can get a lot of our members to contribute stories or articles about notable members or events from the days of SBARC past. This will be a time for honoring and remembering all those that have contributed to SBARC’s success and longevity over its’ long history. So please think about some way you can contribute in the coming year! Once again, you all have my best wishes for this holiday season and the coming year. We’ll see you all in January! Brian Milburn – K6BPM President – Santa Barbara Amateur Radio CLub Post expires at 6:07am on Wednesday January 2nd, 2019 but will still be available in the archives.