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ETA313-01 Introduction
- 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
- KonCEPT (might not be latest version)
- Open source course book in Swedish
- English course book
- TBD … no good resource found yet
- IARU ethics
- Test site
- 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
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