All sounds good to me. At some point we need to make sure all of our testing
materials are up to date. If we come up short 1 VE we could always invite
someone from another club such as RANVY to assist with our testing.
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On Apr 24, 2016, at 9:05 PM, Catherine James <catherine.james@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Here are my thoughts on plans and schedules for licensing classes and exams.
This is all just pie in the sky at this point, sent out to invite comment.
Nothing is fixed yet.
Extra class:
Designed to help General hams upgrade to Extra. Taught one evening a week
over a period of weeks this summer, probably starting around July.
Exams:
First offering of (Tech, General, Extra) exams would be timed 1 - 2 weeks
after the Extra class ends. One option would be to hold it on or near the
last full weekend in September, which ARRL treats as a sort of national
licensing day(s).
Tech/General class:
Designed to take hams from zero up to General. While they could choose to
take just the Tech license exam and then drop out, the intent would be to
encourage them to stay all the way through and go straight to General. There
is far more activity on HF than on VHF+ these days, so we would reduce the
risk of hams getting bored with the lack of local activity.
Those already licensed as Techs would also be encouraged to join. It would
be a refresher of Tech material and an introduction to General material.
This class would probably start in late fall and run through the winter,
one weeknight per week.
Exams:
We would offer all exams again at the end of winter after the Tech/General
class ended.
Feedback welcome!
73,
Cathy
N5WVR