[KYHAM] REMINDER: ARRL ECC Registration Opens Tomorrow

[Ron Dodson]

:Registration opens Tuesday, October 1, 4 PM Eastern
Daylight Time (2000 UTC), for the
ARRL Level I Emergency Communications course (EC-001)
supported by the recent federal homeland security grant from
the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS).
This class is reserved for up to 200 ARRL members who now
hold an official ARRL field appointment (ie, ACC, ASM, BM,
DEC, EC, LGL, NM, OBS, OES, OO, OOC, ORS, PIC, PIO, SEC,
SGL, SM, STM, TC or TS).  All active Ky AEC's known to
myself or the SM have also been entered into the database to
be eligible to register for this course.  Registration will
remain open until Monday, October 14, or until all 200 seats
have been filled--whichever comes first. Seating is on a
first-come, first-served basis and seats are expected to
fill quickly.

Mentor/instructor assignments will be made and course
welcome letters go out October 15, followed shortly by
access codes. Students taking advantage of Level I emergency
communications training under the CNCS grant program will be
asked to pay for the course via credit card during
registration. Upon successfully completing the training and
certification, students will be reimbursed the $45 fee.

The Level I online course runs for eight weeks after the
opening day, and students can work at their own pace. The
course requires mastering the material in each lesson,
completing online exams, and completing some activities for
each lesson. Each student is assigned an online mentor (a
fellow ham who has taken the class and is knowledgeable in
emergency communications).

Anyone considering signing up for the Level I course is
urged to review the syllabus and activities available on the
ARRL Certification and Continuing Education Course Syllabi
Web site http://www.arrl.org/cce/syllabus.html . The average
completion time is 25 hours over the eight weeks, and
prospective students should carefully consider their ability
to devote enough time to complete the course.