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Serving
K-W Radio Amateurs Since 1922
updated
November 15, 2011
Amateur
Radio Classes
HAM RADIO
The Kitchener-Waterloo Amateur Radio Club is sponsoring a ten week training course that prepares a person to write and pass the Industry Canada exam for an Amateur Radio Operators Licence. Here is your chance to participate in one of the most interesting and fun hobbies. Talk across town or around the world. Communicate by voice, morse code, computerized packet radio, via ham built satellites, or world wide using ham radio to access the internet.
Many hams have two way radios in their cars. Ham radio operators are often needed to provide emergency communications in times of disaster when normal communications are disabled.
WHEN: Tuesday & Thursday evenings,
7:30 -10:00 p.m.
STARTING: Thursday, April 12 th, 2012.
WHERE: Stirling Ave Mennonite Church
57 Stirling Ave. North, Kitchener.
MORE INFORMATION: Visit the club website, http://www.kwarc.org. Select “Ham Course” for registration information.
What's Ham Radio All About Anyway
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
More info?? Email: rongim@sympatico.ca
COURSE FEETotal course fee per the following is $25.00 payable at the first session. This includes a one year membership in KWARC, a $25.00 value.
INCLUDED
Free parking Twenty sessions One year Associate Club Membership NOT INCLUDED
Course Material: RAC Study Guide for Basic Qualifications and an Optional Basic Question Bank. Both are available for less than $50.00 through most Ham Radio Stores
Industry Canada Question Bank you can download the question bank (updated 2001) CLICK HERE
Basic
Licence Qualification Course
Instruction
twice weekly (Tues and Thur) for ten weeks during which we will prepare
interested students with adequate training to write the Industry Canada
Basic Certification Exam.
Topics to be covered include:
Basic Electronics
If adequate interest, we offer an Advanced course during which we will prepare the students to write the Industry Canada Advanced Certification Exam.
Covering such topics as:
What's
it all about anyway
Amateur
Radio is a hobby. It's a hobby that deals with a wide variety of different
types of communications. Everything from local voice radio conversations
to voice and data conversations via satellite and even by bouncing the
radio waves off the moon.
Hams have set up a world wide "internet" of sorts using wireless "packet" radio technology. This allows our computers to route mail and news between each other to almost anywhere on earth. There is a large contingent of Hams that specialize in Morse Code and voice conversations over long distances.
In fact this is where the hobby has it's roots, it's called HF or DX'ing. Other Hams use their radios to control RC models. Still others specialize in Amateur television broadcasting. Analog and digital microwave communications is becoming more and more popular too.
Remember 9-11 in NYC or the the San-Francisco Earthquake or any other catastrophic event? After all telephone service is lost the Hams in the area are always the only available method of communicating with the outside world.
Anyway if your interested in Hamming read some of the other screens for more details.
Go back to the home page KW Amateur Radio Club Inc.