Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club site agreement ends, and an urgent search for a new location is underway (California)

It’s not exactly cutting the cord, but the Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club will now have to leave its location on the Santa Barbara Mesa this summer.

The club has been dialed in for decades to transmit communications within their members but in several other ways to be a vital link in the community.

One of their primary sites since the 1970s has been on the Mesa at the Vic Trace Water reservoir, a city property, and the site is used with a city agreement.

It’s been a solid location and it has served the club and the public far and wide.

Levi Maaia is a Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club director. He said the building is, “a modular structure, it’s built on a concrete slab, bolted to the ground for earthquakes and inside it is climate controlled. It allows us to have all the equipment and allows us to have the impact that we have on the community.”

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