[PPRAANet] Hands-on topics. Any suggestions?
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Thu May 17 11:45:30 EDT 2012
Are there additional topics I should add?
Hands-on
Purpose: To train hams, new or seasoned, skills necessary to perform
communications in emergencies or as a hobby, and to recover from equipment
failure.
1) Tools: Basic tools for construction and repair. Parts.
2) Test equipment: How to use and understand readings.
3) Soldering: The basics. Soldering iron and gun.
4) Feedlines: Discussing different types of feedlines and putting on
connectors.
5) Antennas: Construction, repair and antenna trouble shooting. Using
antenna analyzer.
6) Antenna mounting: How to install antennas. Lighting arrestors.
7) Equipment: How to operate your radio and recognize problems.
Programming radios.
8) Procedures: The way you operate your radio during emergencies and
non-emergencies.
9) Alternate power sources: Batteries, solar panels, vehicle, generator.
10) Mobile radio installations: On the go radio.
11) Portable operations: Emergency operations in the field. What you need
to be prepared.
12) Power supplies: The how and why.
13) Circuits: What to make of it all.
14) Schematic diagrams: Ham radio roadmap.
15) Components: Who does what.
16) Transmitter/Receiver: How they work.
17) Safety: Safety first always
18) Propagation: Getting from here to there.
19) Radio interference: We are the folks in the White hats.
20) Resonate circuits: The way they are.
21) Modes: What’s the difference?
22) Putting together your first station: What we need.
23) Zones, grid squares, regions: What they are.
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