Licence Tuition

Scarborough Amateur Radio Society

A society Affiliated to the Radio Society of Great Britain

Licence Tuition

Updated 22 November 2008

Advanced course well under way see details below

No morse training courses available at present. Details will be put here when one is organised.

Morse

A sufficient number of the successful candidates expressed an interest in learning to operate in morse code (referred to as c.w. by radio amateurs) and this was arranged..

It was in the capable hands of Geoff Pritchard G4ZGP and commenced in February 2008 The course was successful and thanks go to Geoff for his work..

Non radio amateurs believe that cw is an outdated mode of transmission. Amateurs however often find that morse can penetrate noise and interference from powerful stations and so can be a worthwhile method of "getting through" while useing small amounts of power

The Intermediate course which began in late September, with a practical project based on the US DCkits 40m FET oscillator ended on 15 January with the exam taken on 22 January. Twelve students were successful.

M3TLY Ian from Whitby
M3UNY Luke (Ian’s son)
M3MEO Daniel
M3NVL Stuart
M3XYD Jim
M3SWQ Alan
M3SXX Sam (Alan’s son)
M3YAE Gary
M3SQZ Nigel
M3XLS Leslie
M3ZMS Matthew
M3JJB John

The practical project, the DCkits oscillator proved problematical, the pcb being rather small for this level of ability, and in several cases during fault finding parts of the copper track lifted. However all of the students completed the project satisfactorily, with the oscillators tuning over some 50kHz of the 40metre band. The completed project included a power indicator, RIT switch and 9v battery, the whole housed in a plastic project box.

Licence Training.

An advanced course is currently running with eight students, who will take the examimation in April 1st. Some time later a Foundation course will be run. applications for places are welcome

Training Group

Members provide a warm welcome for anyone wishing to visit the Club and obtain more details of the Courses available.

The Training Group and the Instructors, who are licensed, registered and approved by the Radio Society Of Great Britain are available.

The necessary practical work required as well as the Examinations at an approved centre form part of the course.

Further information can be obtained from Bob Wilkinson.

e-mail bob.g4yko@virgin.net

Note: - There is no Foundation Course available at the present time but personal supervision of home study and the necessary practical work and homework can be made available.

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