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General Licensing Class

Learn about FCC rules, emergency communication protocols, voice and digital operations, HF transmitters, proper distress call frequencies, and more in this comprehensive amateur radio class presentation.

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General Licensing Class

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  1. General Licensing Class In An Emergency Lake Area Radio Klub Spring 2012

  2. Amateur Radio General ClassElement 3 Course Presentation • ELEMENT 3 SUB-ELEMENTS(Groupings) • 1 - Your Passing CSCE • 2 - Your New General Bands • 3 - FCC Rules • 4 - Be a VE • 5 - Voice Operations • 6 - CW Lives • 7 - Digital Operating • 8 - In An Emergency • 9 - Skywave Excitement

  3. Amateur Radio General ClassElement 3 Course Presentation • ELEMENT 3 SUB-ELEMENTS(Groupings) • 10 - Your HF Transmitter • 11 - Your Receiver • 12 - Oscillators & Components • 13 - Electrical Principles • 14 - Circuits • 15 - Good Grounds • 16 - HF Antennas • 17 - Coax Cable • 18 - RF & Electrical Safety

  4. In An Emergency • An amateur station is allowed to use any means at its disposal to assist another station in distress at any time during an actual emergency.(G2B12) • If you find yourself in an emergency situation, you should send a distress call on whatever frequency has the best chance of communicating the distress message. (G2B11)

  5. In An Emergency • The first thing you should do if you are communicating with another amateur station and hear a station in distress break in is to acknowledge the station in distress and determine what assistance may be needed.(G2B02) • Before amateur stations may provide communications to broadcasters for dissemination to the public, the communications must directly relate to the immediate safety of human life or protection of property and there must be no other means of communication reasonably available before or at the time of the event.(G1B04)

  6. In An Emergency • Only a person holding an FCC issued amateur operator license may be the control operator of an amateur station transmitting in RACES to assist relief operations during a disaster. (G2B09) In an emergency, authorized hams participating in a RACES organization may communicate from a police helicopter.

  7. In An Emergency • If the situation is really dire, more specifically when the President’s War Emergency Powers have been invoked, the FCC may restrict normal frequency operations of amateur stations participating in RACES. (G2B10)

  8. General Licensing Class In An Emergency Your organization and dates here

  9. G2B12 When is an amateur station allowed to use any means at its disposal to assist another station in distress? Only when transmitting in RACES At any time when transmitting in an organized net. At any time during an actual emergency. Only on authorized HF frequencies

  10. G2B11What frequency should be used to send a distress call? Whatever frequency has the best chance of communicating the distress message Only frequencies authorized for RACES or ARES stations. Only frequencies that are within your operating privileges Only frequencies used by police, fire or emergency medical services

  11. G2B02 What is the first thing you should do if you are communicating with another amateur station and hear a station in distress break in? Continue your communication because you were on frequency first Acknowledge the station in distress and determine what assistance may be needed Change to a different frequency Immediately cease all transmissions

  12. G1B04 Which of the following must be true before an amateur station may provide communications to broadcasters for dissemination to the public? The communications must directly relate to the immediate safety of human life or protection of property and there must be no other means of communication reasonably available before or at the time of the event. The communications must be approved by a local emergency preparedness official and conducted on officially designated frequencies. The FCC must have declared a state of emergency. All of these choices are correct. 12

  13. G2B09Who may be the control operator of an amateur station transmitting in RACES to assist relief operations during a disaster? Only a person holding an FCC issued amateur operator license Only a RACES net control operator A person holding an FCC issued amateur operator license or an appropriate government official. Any control operator when normal communication systems are operational

  14. G2B10When may the FCC restrict normal frequency operations of amateur stations participating in RACES? When they declare a temporary state of communication emergency When they seize your equipment for use in disaster communications Only when all amateur stations are instructed to stop transmitting When the President’s War Emergency Powers have been invoked

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