[PARC] Fwd: Radio Amateurs of Canada offers new Online Amateur Radio Courses

[Andrew Bell]

If anyone is interested in an advanced course or knows someone who is, this
just landed in my mailbox.  The Maple Leaf membership is $100, so about $50
more than a standard RAC membership.

Andrew

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From: Radio Amateurs of Canada <racgm at rac.ca>
Date: Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 4:13 PM
Subject: Radio Amateurs of Canada offers new Online Amateur Radio Courses
To: <andrew at poscomp.ca>


*Radio Amateurs of Canada offers new Online Amateur Radio Courses*

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In response to the current Covid-19 crisis, Radio Amateurs of Canada is
pleased to announce that it is introducing two new online Amateur Radio
courses so that individuals can upgrade their qualifications while
continuing to practise social/physical distancing.

*RAC Online Basic Amateur Radio Qualification Course: *

The course offers an introduction into the wonderful world of Amateur Radio
and prepares students for their Basic Qualification Examination. It will be
conducted with the assistance of the Annapolis Valley Amateur Radio Club
(AVARC) of Nova Scotia.

*RAC Maple Leaf Operator Online Advanced Qualification Course:*

The course is an excellent opportunity to upgrade your qualifications so
that you will be able to run higher power and to operate your own repeater
sites. The course is being offered at no charge to RAC Maple Leaf Operator
Members – both current and future – who already have their Basic Amateur
Radio Qualification.

*Additional information:*

*RAC Online Basic Amateur Radio Qualification Course*

This course prepares students for the Innovation, Science and Economic
Development Canada (ISED) Basic Qualification Level Operator Certificate
exam to operate on allocated Amateur Radio frequencies.

The course will use the GoToMeeting web-based service and will start on
Thursday, April 16 and will finish in mid-June. Classes will be held on
Thursday evenings from 6 pm to 8:30 (1800 – 2030) Eastern Time (1900 – 2130
Atlantic Time) and Sunday afternoons 1 pm to 3:30 pm (1300 – 1530) Eastern
Time (1400 – 1630 Atlantic Time).

The course instructor is Al Penney, VO1NO. Al was first licensed in 1977
and has been active in many areas of Amateur Radio including contesting,
DXing, VHF/UHF weak signal, satellites, emergency communications and
DXpeditioning. He has served as the President of six different Amateur
Radio clubs in both Canada and the United States and currently chairs the
International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Region 2 Band Planning Committee.
Al has taught the Basic Qualification Amateur Radio Course since 1994.

*Cost:* The registration fee for the course is $50 plus GST/HST. The cost
of the Basic Study Guide is extra and an order link will be provided upon
completion of payment.

For more information please visit: https://www.rac.ca/basic-radio-course/
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*RAC Maple Leaf Operator Online Advanced Qualification Course*

The new RAC Online Advanced Qualification Course is an excellent
opportunity to upgrade your qualifications so that you will be able to run
higher power and to operate your own repeater sites.

The course will be offered at *no charge* to RAC Maple Leaf Operator
Members – both current and future – who already have their Basic Amateur
Radio Qualification including:


   - Current RAC Maple Leaf Operator Members who have Basic certification
   - Current RAC members who upgrade their memberships to become Maple Leaf
   Operator Members
   - Amateurs who are not RAC members but who join RAC at the Maple Leaf
   Operator Member level


In order to offer maximum flexibility, we will be running two Advanced
courses so students will be able to choose one of the following two options:


   - Sunday afternoons from 3 pm to 5 pm ET
   - Monday evenings from 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm ET


The course will be 10 sessions in length and each session will be two hours
long and it will run from the week of April 5 to the week of June 14.

The course instructor is Dave Goodwin, VE9CB. Dave has been an Amateur
since 1975, is an active HF Contester and DXer and has many other interests
in Amateur Radio. Since 1975, Dave has been teaching Basic and Advanced
certification courses with the Fredericton (NB) Amateur Radio Club. He is
also RAC’s Atlantic Director.

For more information please visit:

https://www.rac.ca/amateur-radio-courses/rac-online-advanced-course/
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