TRAINING ANNOUNCEMENT
The Capital
Area Chapter of the American Red Cross (ARC) as an
extension to the Citizen
Corps, the Amateur Radio
Emergency Service and the Tallahassee Amateur Radio
Society sponsors periodic Amateur Radio License classes.
The Red Cross has scheduled the next Technician License
class to start on January 9, 2008, and will run for 3 -
4 sessions. As it stands now, we will meet
Wednesday's from 6pm to 9pm with
testing the first Tuesday in February.
You can sign up for classes
on-line at
http://www.tallytown.com/redcross/training.html.
Additional information for the
classes can be found at
http://www.tallytown.com/redcross/faqs/
AmateurRadioLicenseCourse.pdf
The classes usually cover the
necessary FCC rules & regulations, electronic
theory, and operating practices for
the Technician Class Amateur Radio License. The
Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL)
publication
The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual, first
edition, will
be used as the study guide, and should be purchased
before the class starts. The cost of the book is around
$25, plus tax and shipping. You can order the
text
directly from the
American Radio Relay League (1-888-277-5289).
You can also order the text from your favorite book store.
Books
might be available free of
charge for class attendees, courtesy of the Capital
Area Chapter of the American Red Cross.
You can get more details about
the class by looking at the Adobe Acrobat file located
here.
Click me to see me
full-size, and/or print me! (24K)
The specific objective of these
classes is to promote interest in Amateur Radio, and strengthen the emergency response
capabilities of both the Tallahassee Amateur Radio
Society, and the
Capital Area Chapter of the ARC.
Even if you're not interested in emergency response
communications, and just want to get an amateur radio
license, or are intrigued by how radio works, you are
more than welcome to attend the classes.
The training will be geared toward
the entry-level Technician class amateur radio license,
which has no Morse Code requirement. Class time
will be partitioned, however, and the Morse Code will
be presented in the first portion of each class day.
The classes are open to the
public, and are free of charge.
The Technician class license
examination consists of 35 questions, and a 75% score
or better is the passing grade. You can also find
the entire Technician class question pool, and
associated diagrams further down the page.
There is a testing fee of $14 at
the conclusion of the training, to cover the costs of
examination materials and postage for sending in the
results. Attendees will be able to sit for an
exam at the next regular testing session.
Information on testing sessions
can be found here.
If you would like to get a head
start on the the material, feel free to download
this primer. It is a Microsoft PowerPoint
presentation. OK, so you don't' have PowerPoint?
Then
click here to view the presentation via your
Internet
Explorer browser. Going through all the
slides in one sitting will probably take a few
hours. The presentation consists of 240+ slides,
so feel free to come back whenever you want, if you
don't have PowerPoint installed on your computer.
The following question pools
should also help you study for your exams. These are Adobe Acrobat
Reader files. If you need the free Adobe Acrobat
Reader software, follow the link from our Newsletter
page to download it.
Technician
Class Question Pool
General
Class Question Pool
Extra
Class Question Pool
Extra
Class Graphics (for use with Question Pool)
Good Luck from all of us in TARS,
on passing your exam and getting your
"ticket."
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