OJAI VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB     |   home MEETING LOCATION Back   MAY 27, 2006 OVARC CLUB MEETING Chuck Evans, N7BFO presented a short video (from original 16 mm footage) and discussed the earthquake that devastated Santa Barbara in 1925. Pictured below left, ham radio was the first and only communication to get the word out to the world.                       Santa Barbara was completely cut off from the outside world. Graham George (6AIV), A. B. (Bennie) Lopez (6AAK), Brandon Wentworth (6UJ), Archie Banks (9AGD), Jim Wiley and others patched together a CW station and sent out an SOS. An operator aboard a Standard Oil tanker heard the SOS, answered it, and help was summoned.