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Field Day 2015 – UPDATED

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Field Day is an intense 24 hours of ham operations. SBARC will have the Rover set up at the Camino Real Marketplace near the movie theater. Setup will begin on Friday June 26th at 12:30 hours and operating will begin on Saturday June 27th at 11:00 hours and continue nonstop until Sunday June 28th at 11:00 hours. Operators are needed for 2 hour time slots during these times. Operation will be on SSB, CW and Digital Modes. People will also be needed to meet, greet, and explain amateur radio to the general public. Contact Tom – N6YX at 805-967-7351 or tsaund@cox.net to sign up for this fun event! UPDATE – June 10, 2015 – From Tom N6YX You are welcome to join the SBARC Field Day event. Field Day starts 11 AM, Saturday, June 27 and runs for 24 hours. We will be located at Camino Real Market Place, about 70 yards south of the movie theatre. The club will operate as a 1A station (single transmitter). We will make hundreds of short HF contacts to stations in US, Canada, Mexico, Hawaii. Contacts will be made using phone, CW, and digital modes. This is a great learning experience for new as well as old hams. We need help with setup Friday afternoon, operators, loggers, and greeters for the public. Setup involves the assembly and mounting of an antenna on the club’s Rover van. We will check out the equipment to make sure everything is working properly before we start operating Saturday morning. Loggers enter contact information into a computer. It is a very simple program that is used to log station call sign, operating classification, and ARRL section information from each contact. Technician class and unlicensed individuals can operate as long as there is a properly licensed ham as the control operator. You do not need any experience to be an operator or logger. This is a great outreach event for the public. This is why we chose the Camino Real mall for this event. We get a lot of interest from the public. Greeters answer simple questions about ham radio and get interested people to sign up for more information or to start a license class. You are also welcome to stop by and check it out. Post expires at 11:00am on Sunday June 28th, 2015 but will still be available in the archives.

KK6OYV (Haydn) Will Be Operating From The Maker Fair This Weekend

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Post from Haydn -KK6OYV follows. He will be operating from the bay area this weekend on HF. Try and make contact with him if you can! We’ve got QSL cards to mail out, too. We’ll be K6M at Maker Faire from 1:00PM to 7:00PM Pacific Time on Friday the 15th 10:00AM to 8:00PM Pacific Time on Saturday the 16th 10:00AM to 6:00PM Pacific Time on Sunday the 17th We’ll be on or around 14.250. Unfortunately, we don’t have enough volunteers to provide all day coverage on the radio, and we get tons of visitors that we provide information to, so we’ll operate as often as possible but not the whole time. We have all the volunteers we’re allowed to have, so too late to sign up. We operate on battery power with a Kenwood TS-480 and either our truck-mounted screwdriver or a Buddipole. Generally we reach to east to the Mississippi but not much further. RFI is a serious contender at Maker Faire, and we don’t have a way to get an antenna way up in the air. Please give a listen or give us a call on 14.250 — K6M Special Event Station. Post expires at 1:00am on Monday May 18th, 2015 but will still be available in the archives.

Satellite Amateur Radio Club Swap Meet and BBQ

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The Satellite Amateur Radio Club at Vandenberg will be having its annual swap meet and BBQ on Saturday, 20 June 2015, the weekend before Father’s Day. The swap meet will start at 8 am. Many south coast hams get together at Ellen’s Danish Pancake House at 272 Avenue of the Flags in Buellton around 6:45 am for breakfast the day of the event. Please check out http://www.satellitearc.com for more information.

ARRL Rookie Roundup Contest – Sunday, 19 April

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Update: The SBARC team will be operating on or around 7.225 and 14.240 during the contest. If you can’t participate, please try to contact them on these frequencies during the contest to get them more points! SBARC will participate in this spring’s Rookie Roundup contest at the club station on Sunday April 19th between 11:00 and 17:00 hours local time. During the Rookie Roundup, a “Rookie” is any radio amateur licensed within the current calendar year or in the previous two calendar years, regardless of license class. Operators exchange the call sign of the station they’re working plus their own call sign, first name, two-digit number of the year first licensed, and state, Canadian province, Mexican call area, or “DX.” The goal of Rookie Roundup is to encourage newly licensed operators in North America (including territories and possessions) to operate on the HF bands and experience competitive Amateur Radio operating. Experienced operators are encouraged to participate and help new operators — either on the air or in person. This is a terrific opportunity for new operators to get on the air and learn contesting skills. Old Timers may want to consider opening up their stations to rookies and serving as a contesting mentor. The more operators on the air, the more fun the Roundup will be for everyone. Review the rules before the event, and get familiar with logging and log submission processes too. Rookies exchange information with as many other stations as possible on the 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 meters. Rookie entrants are encouraged to read “HF Contesting – Good Practices, Interpretations and Suggestions.” For more information and to sign up for the “team” contact Theo KK6YYZ, at theohowe@hotmail.com or (805) 896-4421. Post expires at 11:30am on Sunday April 19th, 2015 but will still be available in the archives.

Audio Archive of the Barbara Ireland Walk Event

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You can listen to this past weekends event, the Barbara Ireland Walk for Cancer, in our audio archives section. You can look under the “Saturday Mornings” group and the event will be listed as “2015-03-14 Saturday Morning”. You can download it directly by clicking here. If you are thinking about volunteering for an upcoming event, and wonder what we do and what to expect, take a listen and you can see how an event is coordinated and what SBARC does to assist during these events.

Team Leaders Needed for Field Day and Hamfest

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Do you have organizational skills or want to participate and help get everything in place for a major Club event? The board of directors is looking for team leaders for the various aspects of organizing two major upcoming events, Field Day (June 26-28) and Hamfest (Aug 9). This year Hamfest and the Bazaar will be combined into one event. At this time we are planning on having this combined event at the Elks lodge. We are still finalizing plans for Field Day, but are planning on having something fun and exciting. Team leaders will have responsibility for helping to plan and execute various aspects of these once-a-year events. You will be helping to coordinate volunteers, logistics (the mighty McLeod Brock is there to save for the day!!), You can also look at this site to know more , event day activities, and working with the Board of Directors in making sure these events are well run and fun for everyone. This is a good opportunity to get to know other club members better, learn more about how the club operates, and practice your leadership skills. If you can volunteer, please go to the “Contact Us” form here on the website, complete it and let us know. We’ll get back to you right away. You can also contact us directly by email by sending an email to info@sbarc.org. We’ll make sure your email gets to the right person.

Listen to the Barbara Ireland Event this Saturday

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Listen to K6TZ this coming Saturday and follow the Barbara Ireland Walk for Cancer event from 08:00 to 12:00. We will need volunteers for upcoming events and this will give you a good idea how these fun events are organized and how SBARC supports them Post expires at 1:00am on Sunday March 15th, 2015 but will still be available in the archives.