FARS - General Class Amateur Radio License Course

This page contains resources for presenting a course on the General Class Amateur Radio License. There are 10 hours of training material that was used to teach teach the course presented by FARS in the spring of 2010. Also included is a course syllabus and some guidance on taking the General Class License Examination.

We make this material available to other non-profit amateur radio groups to use to put on similar courses, but we ask that credit be given to FARS for developing these presentations. Please include a link to this page http://k6ya.org/class2010spring.

FARS General Class License Course

Course Syllabus
Kevin Weiler, K6XXX

April 15th

Introductions and Testing Strategy
Kevin Weiler, K6XXX
Procedures and Practices
Mikel Lechner, KN6QI

April 22nd

Rules and Regulations
Kevin Weiler, K6XXX
Components and Circuits (part 1)
Kristen McIntyre, K6WX

April 29th

Components and Circuits (part 2)
Peter Chow, AF6DS
Radio Signals and Emissions
Phil Hawkins, KA6MZE

May 6th

Antennae and Feed Lines
Mikel Lechner, KN6QI
Propagation and CW
Kristen McIntyre, K6WX

May 13th

Electrical and RF Safety
Phil Hawkins, KA6MZE
Followup
Kevin Weiler, K6XXX
Final Questions and Answers

May 20th

Test Night

The examination was handled by Silicon Valley Volunteer Examiner (VE) Group.

Of the 29 students in the class, 21 opted to take the test on test night and 18 of them passed the test. The 3 who have not passed were very close and plan to retake the test in a few weeks.

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