Register Now for the Fourth Series of CW Classes

Mike, ZS6MSW reports that he has established the new dates for the next Morse Code classes for 2022.

They will run from 1 July to 29 August 2022, starting at 19:00 CAT every Monday night on Skype as usual. If anything changes, Mike will let you know.

Should you know of a candidate who may be interested, the requirements are for those joining are to become familiar with the sounds of the characters at a minimum speed of 20 wpm, two months prior to the facilitation classes commence.

The cut-off date for registration will be 1 May 2022, this will avoid people joining late and then keeping the class behind.

The training programmes you will need to download are one of many, Just Learn Morse, Morse Machine and Koch Morse Trainer for Android at about R30 per download.

Mike will need your e-mail address, mobile number, call sign and name to be accommodated in the next classes on Skype. Contact Mike on zs6msw@gmail.com

Online Training for Ham Radio Exam in Spain

Online training is growing in popularity in Spain, URE Malaga has started online tutorials on the Amateur Radio Exam Book through the Jitsi Meet platform

These tutorials are open, so any interested party who is preparing to obtain administrative authorization from amateur radio can attend.

The tutorials will be held every Thursday at 7:00 pm - https://t.co/kooVmuOYjd

The URE has provided the necessary resources so that these tutorials are subsequently recorded on the URE YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/URE_Radioaficionados

Spain's HAREC exam for the Full license comprises 30 questions on Rules and Regulations and 30 on Technical Theory. The pass mark is 50% for each.

The URE has made available the 600 exam questions as exam papers for candidates to practice on, see

Registrations - https://www.ure.es/examenes/reglamentacion/

Theory Inforamtion - https://www.ure.es/examenes/electricidad-y-radioelectricidad/

Advanced Ham Radio Exam Syllabus to Match HAREC

Advanced Ham Radio Exam Syllabus to Match HAREC

Australia's regulator ACMA has announced it will update the Advanced Amateur Radio syllabus by adopting the syllabus contained in CEPT HAREC

The announcement appeared in the ACMA Amateur Radio newsletter dated 2nd March 2022, it said:

Update: a review of non-assigned amateur licensing arrangements

Following the release of the Response to submissions: Review of non-assigned amateur licensing arrangements in November 2021, we have been progressing proposals responding to a range of constructive suggestions from submitters raised during consultation. This includes international recognition of Australian amateur licensing arrangements and call sign management under a class licence.

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