Back to course information

• Introduce myself (SA6JKK is my callsign, 'callsign' 'at' gmail.com, ham since 2019)
• Todays agenda
• You are licensed to transmit with >100 W using most equipment on certain frequencies. Typically it is the radio that is licensed
• Callsigns are not anonymous (google my callsign)

Why ham/amateur radio? (ham with small letters)

• SA6JKK's interests
  • Build my own radio equipment and use it legally
  • Investigate wave propagation with digital “weak signal modes”
  • amateur satellite communication
  • Microwave experiments
  • AMPRNet (ETA/SK6AB is an internet service provider)
  • Teaching and learning about radio
• Others interests
  • Talk with locals on VHF/UHF
  • Talk with the entire world using HF
  • Talk with the entire world using low power HF, QRP (<10W)
  • Morse code (CW)
  • Prepping and emergency communications
  • Contests, radio operation competitions
  • Sending QSL cards, physical cards to signify a contact has been made
  • Radio-orienteering (license not required but common)
  • Collecting diplomas for all earlier activities. (Example talk to 100 countries = DXCC award)

Course introduction

• What is the course information channel?
  • Show this wiki and the course plan
• Course material
  • SSA provides the material
    • https://www.ssa.se/ssa/dokument/utbildningsmaterial/#elf_l1_Lw
    • KonCEPT (might not be latest version)
      • http://akademin.ssa.se/files/koncept-pdf/koncept.pdf
      • https://github.com/SverigesSandareamatorer/SSA-Akademin
      • Open source course book in Swedish
    • English course book
      • TBD … no good resource found yet
    • IARU ethics
    • Test site
      • https://examen.ssa.se/
  • The license test
    • two parts, Technology + electrical safety and Regulations. Each part cost 100kr to write (TBD)
    • I will not teach 100% of what is required to pass the tests
    • Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler
    • No Morse code (CW)
    • Not a super difficult test but it requires practice. 2023 ETA had 100% success rate for the test
    • If you pass you need to pay a licence fee to SSA.
  • What does the course cost?
    • The course itself cost nothing :) but please attend the ETA-auction in December