ARRL Teachers Institute to Offer Four Sessions this Summer

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ARRL Teachers Institute to Offer Four Sessions this Summer

ARRL will offer four sessions of the Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology in June and July as part of its educational outreach to schools through the Education & Technology Program. The Teachers Institute (TI) is an expenses-paid professional development program intended to provide teachers with tools and strategies to introduce their students to basic electronics, the science of radio, space technology and satellite communications, weather science, microcontrollers, robotics, and amateur radio. The curriculum is designed for motivated teachers and other school staff who want to learn more about wireless technology, gain hands-on experience, and bring that knowledge to their students. Class sizes are limited to 12 teachers. The deadline to apply is May 1, 2022.

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Talk on Proposed Beginners Amateur Radio License

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The Academic Radio Club (ARK) report the annual ham radio meeting at Gardermoen featured a presentation by Torbjørn LA4ZCA on Norway's proposed new beginners license

Norwegian Hammeeting is a convention for radio amateurs in Norway to connect and where relevant organizations like NKOM [communications regulator] and NRRL [national society] present their news and information ...

When introduced, this beginner license will have lower issuance requirements in exchange for limited rights in terms of things like operating bands and output power.

Additionally, there is a plan to introduce the hobby early on in schools and make the study material more accessible. ARK has been hosting license courses for a while, so we are naturally interested in this project, considering the opportunities the new license will bring our members.

Read the ARK report on the Norwegian Hammeeting 2022 - https://www.la1k.no/2022/03/16/ark-at-norwegian-hammeeting-2022/

Register Now for the Fourth Series of CW Classes

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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