FARS - General Class Amateur Radio License Course


Dear Students,

This page provides a course syllabus showing what is being taught on each class date. Use this as your guide on where you should be in the reading. Also, you may want to bring a copy of each presentation with you to the class session to help you follow along. We plan to put each of the presentations on-line a few days before it is presented.

This page contains resources for presenting a course on the General Class Amateur Radio License. There are 9 hours of training material here to be used to teach teach the course presented by FARS in the spring of 2011. 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/classes/class2011.

Promotional PDF flyer and sign-up form for the Spring 2012 FARS General Class.

Questions to: kn6qi AT arrl.net.

The following syllabus is subect to change.

Date Session Title Chapter Instructor Updated
May 19th Session 1 Introduction / Strategies / Motivation 1 Kevin Weiler, K6XXX 05/19/11

Session 2 Procedures and Practices 2 Mikel Lechner KN6QI 05/19/11
May 26th Session 1 Rules and Regulations 3 Michael Pechner NE6RD
06/22/11

Session 2 Components and Circuits - pt 1 4 Kristen McIntyre K6WX 06/02/11
June 2nd Session 1 Components and Circuits - pt 2 4 Peter Chow AF6DS 06/02/11

Session 2 Signals & Emissions 5 Phil Hawkins KA6MZE 06/02/11
June 9th Session 1 Antennae and Feedlines 6 Mikel Lechner KN6QI 06/10/11

Session 2 Electrical and RF Safety 8 Phil Hawkins KA6MZE 06/10/11
June 16th Session 1 Propagation + CW 7 Kristen McIntyre K6WX 06/16/11

Session 2 After Your License / Wrap Up
All

Session 3
Kevin Weiler K6XXX 06/22/11
June 23rd TEST !!



Session 1 starts at 7pm; Session 2 starts at 8pm.

You may get a sneak preview of the class presenations at the 2011 class resources page. This page shows the syllabus, instructors, and presentations used for the 2011 class. The 2012 presentations have been updated to reflect changes in the question pool for the General Class License Examination, so they are somewhat different from the 2011 versions. Check the 2012 General Course presentations.

Online Test Resources

Where to get Tested Ahead of Time

  • Silicon Valley VE Group (ARRL VEC)
    • Saturday, May 5 @ 8:00am, Saratoga
    • Saturday, May 19 @ 8:00am, Saratoga
    • Saturday, June 2 @ 8:00am, Saratoga
  • Sunnyvale VEC
    • Saturday, May 12 @ 10:30am, Sunnyvale
    • Saturday, May 19 @ 10:30am, Redwood City
    • Saturday, June 9 @ 10:30am, Sunnyvale

ARRL Bandplan Chart

Students should acquire a copy of the textbook for the class: The ARRL General Class License Manual 9th Edition ($33) - available from HRO (Oakland) or ARRL (shipped).

Register on-line or Sign up by US mail.

Additional information and links for sign-up.

de Mikel, KN6QI filling in for our regular training officer Kevin, K6XXX.