[PARC] Fwd: Registration now underway for RAC Advanced Course for Maple Leaf Operators: Summer 2021

[Andrew Bell]

The RAC advanced online course is being offered again. Details below.

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From: Radio Amateurs of Canada <racgm at rac.ca>
Date: Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 10:48 AM
Subject: Registration now underway for RAC Advanced Course for Maple Leaf
Operators: Summer 2021
To: <andrew at poscomp.ca>


Registration now underway for RAC Advanced Course for Maple Leaf Operators:
Summer 2021
*RAC Advanced Course for RAC Maple Leaf Operators: Summer 2021*

*Registration is now underway for the RAC Advanced Course: Summer 2021*
https://www.rac.ca/rac-advanced-course-for-maple-leaf-operators-summer-2021/
<https://rac.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1cc2ce962688ad6bb6db0d414&id=fe272c1bd0&e=7c0232a7d3>

*Note: You need to be a RAC Maple Leaf Operator Member (present or future)
to register for this course. See below for information.*

In response to the global pandemic, Radio Amateurs of Canada is once again
offering an *online* Advanced Qualification Amateur Radio Course so that
individuals can upgrade their qualifications while continuing to practise
social/physical distancing.

With your Advanced Certificate, you can run higher power, operate a
remotely-controlled station, obtain operating privileges when travelling
overseas, set up repeaters, be the trustee for club stations and even
become an Accredited Examiner (AE).
*Course information:*

The course will be 10 sessions in length and each session will be two hours
long.

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 EDT (12 pm to 2 pm PDT) starting
   on Sunday, June 6 and ending on Sunday, August 15

Or

   - Monday evenings from 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm EDT (5:30 to 7:30 PDT)
   starting on Monday, June 7 and ending on Sunday, August 16

*Note: There will be no classes on August 1 or 2 because of the local
holidays in some areas.*
*Course Instruction:*

The course instructor is Dave Goodwin, VE9CB. Dave has been an Amateur
since 1975, is an active HF Contester and DXer and his DXpedition to Point
Amour Lighthouse was featured on the front cover of the November-December
2020 issue of The Canadian Amateur. Dave has also been a long-time
volunteer at the national level and has served as the RAC President and as
the RAC Director for the Atlantic Region. Since 2015, he has also has been
teaching Basic and Advanced certification courses with the Fredericton (NB)
Amateur Radio Club.

Course material pertaining to all topics covered in the course
syllabus will be provided to all registered students and is available
online at:

https://www.rac.ca/rac-advanced-course-for-maple-leaf-operators-summer-2021/
<https://rac.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1cc2ce962688ad6bb6db0d414&id=fe1ab4e3db&e=7c0232a7d3>
*Course Requirements:*

The RAC Advanced Qualification Amateur Radio course is being offered at no
charge to *RAC Maple Leaf Operator Members* – both current and future as
described below.
Participants in the course will need to meet all of the following
requirements:

   1. Participants must already have the Canadian Basic Amateur
   Radio Qualification and a Canadian call sign.
   2. Participants must already be a RAC Maple Leaf Operator Member
   <https://rac.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1cc2ce962688ad6bb6db0d414&id=f6605d9514&e=7c0232a7d3>
or
   become one by joining RAC at the Maple Leaf Operator level or upgrading to
   that level.
   3. Participants must have a copy of the Canadian Amateur Radio Advanced
   Qualification Study Guide provided by Coax Publications. For more
   information please visit the RAC Study Guides
   <https://rac.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1cc2ce962688ad6bb6db0d414&id=5285898a01&e=7c0232a7d3>
    webpage.
   4. Participants must have a computer and Internet connection capable of
   using the GoToMeeting
   <https://rac.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1cc2ce962688ad6bb6db0d414&id=f113bfefc2&e=7c0232a7d3>
(GTM)
   conference platform. You do not need your own account on GTM to take part
   in this course, but you will have to download an applet from the GTM site
   to participate.
   5. Participants must have a working email address to receive course
   materials and links to the sessions.

There is room on the conference server for 200 participants in each
session. Auditors are welcome to attend on a space-available basis,
provided they are RAC Maple Leaf Operator members. You can sign up by
following the instructions on the registration page
<https://rac.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1cc2ce962688ad6bb6db0d414&id=2dc43c7091&e=7c0232a7d3>
.


*Other Amateur Radio Courses:*

Amateur Radio Basic and Advanced Qualification courses are also now being
provided both online and in person by Canadian Amateur Radio Clubs and
organizations. Please visit the Amateur Radio Courses webpage for more
information at the link provided below.

https://www.rac.ca/amateur-radio-courses/
<https://rac.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1cc2ce962688ad6bb6db0d414&id=72139e1fc0&e=7c0232a7d3>




*Glenn MacDonell, VE3XRA RAC President and Chair*



*Alan Griffin*
*RAC MarCom Director*





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