cockpitbob
NES Member
Once again, the Gloucester ham club is holding its 1 day study and test class.
Cost: $20
When: Sat 4/23/2016
Arrive: 8:00am
Finish: about 5:00pm
Location: Gloucester, MA
No need to pre-study. Just arrive rested and ready for a bit of a tedious day. You'll study for 45 minutes, then walk around and clear your head for 15, then repeat. You'll do 3 of these hours before lunch (BYOL or eat at local Gloucester eatery), then 3 hrs after lunch, then take the test. I think coffee and snacks are provided free.
Usually all the adults and all the kids older than 13 pass. My son passed when he was 11! After you pass, it will take the FCC 1-3 weeks to issue you a call sign, then you'll be a licensed ham radio operator. Start by getting one of those $35 Baofeng ham radios and get on the air.
Many NESers have gotten their licenses at this class. Three years ago about 15 got their tickets on the same day.
MORE INFO:
Cape Ann Amateur Radio Association (CAARA) Tech-in-a-Day web page
Ask me (and others) questions in this thread. Lots of us have done it.
Ask the guy running it questions. Email: [email protected].
See post #3 in this thread.
Here's the thread from when about 15 of us got our tickets 3 years ago.
One word of caution about after you get your license. It may cost you more time than you expect. Ham radio isn't a hobby, it's 99 hobbies:
Community service. Prepper related. You build it. Just being social chatting with people on other continents or just on the local repeater with a $35 hand held. Contesting. Simple geek stuff like talking to someone 1,000 miles away by bouncing off a ham satellite in orbit with a $35 handheld radio with a $80 antenna. Super geek stuff like bouncing off the moon with a high power station and big antenna. Morse code. Digital modes. Sending emails thousands of miles over the airwaves with no internet on your end.
Something for everyone.
Cost: $20
When: Sat 4/23/2016
Arrive: 8:00am
Finish: about 5:00pm
Location: Gloucester, MA
No need to pre-study. Just arrive rested and ready for a bit of a tedious day. You'll study for 45 minutes, then walk around and clear your head for 15, then repeat. You'll do 3 of these hours before lunch (BYOL or eat at local Gloucester eatery), then 3 hrs after lunch, then take the test. I think coffee and snacks are provided free.
Usually all the adults and all the kids older than 13 pass. My son passed when he was 11! After you pass, it will take the FCC 1-3 weeks to issue you a call sign, then you'll be a licensed ham radio operator. Start by getting one of those $35 Baofeng ham radios and get on the air.
Many NESers have gotten their licenses at this class. Three years ago about 15 got their tickets on the same day.
MORE INFO:
Cape Ann Amateur Radio Association (CAARA) Tech-in-a-Day web page
Ask me (and others) questions in this thread. Lots of us have done it.
Ask the guy running it questions. Email: [email protected].
See post #3 in this thread.
Here's the thread from when about 15 of us got our tickets 3 years ago.
One word of caution about after you get your license. It may cost you more time than you expect. Ham radio isn't a hobby, it's 99 hobbies:
Community service. Prepper related. You build it. Just being social chatting with people on other continents or just on the local repeater with a $35 hand held. Contesting. Simple geek stuff like talking to someone 1,000 miles away by bouncing off a ham satellite in orbit with a $35 handheld radio with a $80 antenna. Super geek stuff like bouncing off the moon with a high power station and big antenna. Morse code. Digital modes. Sending emails thousands of miles over the airwaves with no internet on your end.
Something for everyone.
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