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RST Engineering (jw)
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Tue Jan 18, 2005 1:10 am Post subject:
(slightly OT) Free Ham Radio Course |
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With the crossbreeding of amateur (ham) radio operators and electronics
professionals being
something on the order of 25%, this is only slightly OT.
There is a free online ham radio course being offered and sponsored by RST
Engineering at www.rstengineering.com/hamradio . It is intended to take
anybody with an interest in getting a
ham radio license from zero knowledge through at least enough knowledge to
pass the written exam. There is no practical exam for a ham license; pass
the written and you am one. The site is intended to take somebody with no
prior knowledge of the subject to be ready to pass at least one class of
license within 30 days.
There are no time limits. Study at your own pace; my college class is
taking the exam(s) on the 26th of February, but the rest of the world can
take whatever time they see fit. I will suggest that total immersion is the
best way to study this subject. If you don't want to buy the study guide
books from the sources that I recommend, most college and municipal
libraries either have them or can get them temporarily for a small fee.
While I wrote this site specifically for my college electronics class
students, with it being on the web, anybody in the USA and possessions can
use the site to study for the license. There is virtually nowhere in the
USA that there are not volunteer examiners within a short distance of your
home. (See
http://www.arrl.org/arrlvec/examsearch.phtml f or the location closest to
you.) There is a nominal fee between zero and $15 charged by the
organization that prints, mails, examines, and files the paperwork to cover
their costs of doing business.
There are three classes of license:
Technician has no code and an elementary theory and regulations exam. It
permits limited operation below 30 MHz., but grants all privileges from 30
MHz. on up.
General has a 5wpm code exam and a moderate theory and regulations exam. It
permits almost all operation on any amateur radio band, with little tiny
slices here and there reserved for the ...
Extra has a 5wpm code exam and a rather extensive theory and regulations
exam. It permits all operations on any amateur radio band.
This site is brought to you by RST Engineering, written by Jim (WX6RST), and
the website maintained by Gailla (KB9MII) who is also using the site to
upgrade from Technician to either General or Extra. Enjoy.
Jim
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John Woodgate
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Tue Jan 18, 2005 1:37 am Post subject:
Re: (slightly OT) Free Ham Radio Course |
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I read in alt.binaries.schematics.electronic that RST Engineering (jw)
<jim@rstengineering.com> wrote (in <10uo3di3o5smr58@corp.supernews.com>)
about '(slightly OT) Free Ham Radio Course', on Mon, 17 Jan 2005:
| Quote: | General has a 5wpm code exam and a moderate theory and regulations exam.
It permits almost all operation on any amateur radio band, with little
tiny slices here and there reserved for the ...
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You still have a 'coarse mode' requirement? In this digital age?
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk |
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RST Engineering (jw)
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Tue Jan 18, 2005 1:58 am Post subject:
Re: (slightly OT) Free Ham Radio Course |
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Yup. Kind of like requiring that you show how to properly hitch up the
horse to the buggy when going for your driver's license exam.
Jim
| Quote: | General has a 5wpm code exam and a moderate theory and regulations exam.
It permits almost all operation on any amateur radio band, with little
tiny slices here and there reserved for the ...
You still have a 'coarse mode' requirement? In this digital age? |
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Robert Monsen
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Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:24 am Post subject:
Re: (slightly OT) Free Ham Radio Course |
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RST Engineering (jw) wrote:
| Quote: | With the crossbreeding of amateur (ham) radio operators and electronics
professionals being
something on the order of 25%, this is only slightly OT.
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Thanks for posting this. Also, you might want to post it to
sci.electronics.basics.
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Regards,
Robert Monsen
"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis."
- Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon,
on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God. |
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RST Engineering (jw)
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Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:56 am Post subject:
Re: (slightly OT) Free Ham Radio Course |
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That's not one of the groups that I subscribe to. If you subscribe, would
you mind forwarding it for me?
Thanks,
Jim
| Quote: | With the crossbreeding of amateur (ham) radio operators and electronics
professionals being
something on the order of 25%, this is only slightly OT.
Thanks for posting this. Also, you might want to post it to
sci.electronics.basics. |
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Tom MacIntyre
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Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:23 am Post subject:
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:56:48 -0800, "RST Engineering \(jw\)"
<jim@rstengineering.com> wrote:
| Quote: | That's not one of the groups that I subscribe to. If you subscribe, would
you mind forwarding it for me?
Thanks,
Jim
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I took care of this for you...
Tom
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With the crossbreeding of amateur (ham) radio operators and electronics
professionals being
something on the order of 25%, this is only slightly OT.
Thanks for posting this. Also, you might want to post it to
sci.electronics.basics.
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RST Engineering (jw)
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Tue Jan 18, 2005 5:01 am Post subject:
Re: (slightly OT) Free Ham Radio Course |
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Many thanks...
Jim
"Tom MacIntyre" <tom__macintyre@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:iteou01evjc1adtu7u8bcvj3g4m1jdvru2@4ax.com...
| Quote: | On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:56:48 -0800, "RST Engineering \(jw\)"
I took care of this for you...
Tom |
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Greysky
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Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:47 am Post subject:
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| Is the site going to stay up for a while, or is the end of feb. the limit? |
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Rich Grise
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Tue Jan 18, 2005 12:38 pm Post subject:
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:58:35 -0800, RST Engineering (jw) wrote:
| Quote: | Yup. Kind of like requiring that you show how to properly hitch up the
horse to the buggy when going for your driver's license exam.
More like sitting through four years of PhDs spouting political advocacy |
so you can get a certificate and make the big bucks.
If you can sit there and train your brain to receive Morse Code, you're
worthy of the epithet, "Radio Amateur".
Cheers!
Rich |
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RST Engineering (jw)
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Tue Jan 18, 2005 12:51 pm Post subject:
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For a lifetime. Mine, not yours.
Jim
"Greysky" <greyskynospam@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:ax0Hd.11617$wZ2.8621@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...
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Is the site going to stay up for a while, or is the end of feb. the limit?
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Steve Rush
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Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:04 pm Post subject:
Re: (slightly OT) Free Ham Radio Course |
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:37:19 +0000, John Woodgate wrote:
| Quote: | I read in alt.binaries.schematics.electronic that RST Engineering (jw)
jim@rstengineering.com> wrote (in <10uo3di3o5smr58@corp.supernews.com>)
about '(slightly OT) Free Ham Radio Course', on Mon, 17 Jan 2005:
General has a 5wpm code exam and a moderate theory and regulations exam.
It permits almost all operation on any amateur radio band, with little
tiny slices here and there reserved for the ...
You still have a 'coarse mode' requirement? In this digital age?
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Hand-keyed CW will get through conditions that defeat anything else. It's
so slow that you can use a very narrow filter, and once the receiving
operator learns the idiosyncrasies of the sender's "fist", the
cocktail-party effect kicks in. In a pinch, you can send with anything
that generates RF; I don't know whether anyone has actually sent an SOS
with an arc welder, but it would work. |
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John Woodgate
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Tue Jan 18, 2005 3:08 pm Post subject:
Re: (slightly OT) Free Ham Radio Course |
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I read in alt.binaries.schematics.electronic that Steve Rush <steverush1
@SPAM_ME_NOT.cox.net> wrote (in <pan.2005.01.18.08.04.22.918239@SPAM_ME_
NOT.cox.net>) about '(slightly OT) Free Ham Radio Course', on Tue, 18
Jan 2005:
| Quote: | Hand-keyed CW will get through conditions that defeat anything else.
It's so slow that you can use a very narrow filter, and once the
receiving operator learns the idiosyncrasies of the sender's "fist", the
cocktail-party effect kicks in.
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I agree about the robustness of CW; it just seems odd now that most hams
use commercial equipment to insist on them learning a communication
protocol that they will never use.
Many years ago, I suggested that since humans can easily produce what
sounds like MCW Morse with no prosthetic at all, it should be used for
direct communication with computers. That would mean everyone leaning
Morse, and many would get quite fast!
| Quote: | In a pinch, you can send with anything
that generates RF; I don't know whether anyone has actually sent an SOS
with an arc welder, but it would work.
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Happens a lot in thriller novels. (;-) My experience is that most arc
welder users want to send 'War and Peace' unabridged. (:-(
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk |
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Lord Garth
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Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:49 pm Post subject:
Re: (slightly OT) Free Ham Radio Course |
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Has anybody said that the 'no code' technician license has been available
for close to 15 years now?
I you opt to take the code portion, all you must do is listen to a QSO.
Questions are then asked
to prove that you copied the communication.
The hardest thing I found on the test was reading the superscripts on the
poor quality copies the
VE's handed out. I had enough time to check every answer three times. |
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Tim Williams
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Wed Jan 19, 2005 7:14 am Post subject:
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"John Woodgate" <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote in message
news:S$ThJPB2HN7BFwX3@jmwa.demon.co.uk...
| Quote: | My experience is that most arc
welder users want to send 'War and Peace' unabridged. (:-(
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Wouldn't be me though...nope...not at all....certainly not once I build and
install the HF start unit...yup...
That should be splatterific, no? ;-)
Tim
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"I've got more trophies than Wayne Gretsky and the Pope combined!"
- Homer Simpson
Website @ http://webpages.charter.net/dawill/tmoranwms |
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John Ferrell
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Thu Jan 20, 2005 6:40 am Post subject:
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There have been a couple of times that I may have worked one on 40....
de W8CCW
I don't know whether anyone has actually sent an SOS
| Quote: | with an arc welder, but it would work.
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