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Amateur Radio

Training information

Amateur Licenses

The license syllabus's found here have everything you need to study for the Technician, General, and Extra amateur licenses. All possible questions and the answers are covered with additional explanation of the answer, if needed, to enhance your understanding of the answer. These syllabus can be used for self study or in an instructor led class. They will be updated when the question pool changes. Click the button below for the training you are interested in.

Technician Syllabus

General Syllabus

Extra Syllabus

Training materials are available at no cost for self study or as the text for teaching a formal classroom license class. Additional materials are available if you plan to teach a license class including power point slides that follow the syllabus for Technician, General, and Extra licenses, and EMCOMM classes.

The materials provided have been copyrighted by the author but can be freely downloaded and used providing it is not sold or incorporated into other materials or web sites. If you wish to reference these materials on your website, please use a link to this page so you will have the latest revisions.

EMCOMM Training Class

The EMCOMM traning class is based on the ARRL 4th edition of Introduction to Emergency Communication Course ©2011 first edition (ISBN 976-0-87259-730-3). This is a vary large presentation, also available in PowerPoint format by request, for Instructors to use when preparing students to take the ARRL EMCOMM exam. This class is usually taught with multiple instructors over three 8 hour days with the last half of day three for the exam.

Emcomm Training Class

EMCOMM Vulnerability of Electronics and Communications

This Power Point presentation explains how EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse) and CME (solar Coronal Mass Ejections) can affect our infrastructure. It also suggests precautions amateur radio operators should take to protect their gear.

This presentation is not available to download at some of the authors' request. You can still obtain it by contacting AD7FO directly.