Welcome

For the past 15 years I have been the instructor for the Basic Licensing Class at the Peel Amateur Radio Club. My class has evolved considerably in that time. The first class was given as a series of weekly lectures over ten weeks. My only "audio visuals" were chalk and a blackboard. Since the first class, I have created a massive slide deck, first in PowerPoint, then in Keynote when I graduated from PC to Mac. I have photographed antennas, repeater sites, ham stations, and have recorded videos. And I have retooled the class from weekly lectures to a weekend crash course.

Ham Radio has alway been an "open source" community, sharing ideas and resources. It occurred to me that the blogosphere might be a good place to share some of my ideas about teaching the basic class, and to encourage other instructors to share.

While the focus of this blog is on the requirements of the Canadian Basic Amateur Radio License, much of the licensing requirements cover basic concepts about electronics and radio theory, so readers from the US, the UK and other english speaking countries should also benefit from materials posted on the blog.

So keep reading, share your ideas, and enjoy.