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General Licensing Class

General Licensing Class. Your New General Bands. Lake Area Radio Klub Spring 2012. Amateur Radio General Class Element 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

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General Licensing Class

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  1. General Licensing Class Your New General Bands 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. Your New General Bands General class control operator frequency privileges A General Class license holder is granted all amateur frequency privileges on the following:(G1A01) 160 60 30 17 12 10 Meters • CW, RTTY, data, phone, and image

  5. Your New General Bands General class control operator frequency privileges(cont) A General Class license holder is granted all amateur frequency privileges on the following: (G1A01) 160 60 30 17 12 10 Meters USB (Upper Side Band) Phone only 5

  6. Your New General Bands General class control operator frequency privileges (cont) A General Class license holder is granted all amateur frequency privileges on the following: (G1A01) 160 60 30 17 12 10 Meters • CW, RTTY, and Data

  7. Your New General Bands General class control operator frequency privileges(cont) A General Class license holder is granted all amateur frequency privileges on the following: (G1A01) 160 60 30 17 12 10 Meters • CW, RTTY, data, phone, and image

  8. Your New General Bands General class control operator frequency privileges(cont) A General Class license holder is granted all amateur frequency privileges on the following: (G1A01) 160 60 30 17 12 10 Meters • CW, RTTY, data, phone, and image

  9. Your New General Bands General class control operator frequency privileges(cont) A General Class license holder is granted all amateur frequency privileges on the following: (G1A01) 160 60 30 17 12 10 Meters • CW, RTTY, data, phone, and image

  10. Your New General Bands General class control operator frequency privileges(recap) A General Class license holder is granted all amateur frequency privileges on the following: (G1A01) 160 meters 60 meters 30 meters 17 meters 12 meters 10 meters All of these bands…..all privileges. (answer is six bands) 10

  11. Your New General Bands General class control operator frequency privileges The following frequencies are available to a control operator holding a General Class license: (G1A11) All of these answers are correct 28.020 MHz 28.350 MHz 28.550 MHz 11 28.020 28.350 28.550

  12. Your New General Bands The maximum transmitting power a station with a General Class control operator may use on the 28 MHz band (10 Meter Band) is 1500 watts PEP output. (G1C05) A 10 meter repeater may retransmit a 2 meter signal from a Technician, ONLY if there is an active duty control operator holding a General Class or higher.(G1E02) 12

  13. Your New General Bands General class control operator frequency privileges 24.940 MHz frequency is in the 12-meter band (G1A06) 24.940 MHz 13 CW, RTTY and data … CW, phone and image

  14. The maximum transmitting power an amateur station may use on the Amateur Radio12 meter band is 1500 watts PEP output. (G1C02) Your New General Bands 14 CW, RTTY and data … CW, phone and image

  15. General class control operator frequency privileges The 21,300 kHz frequency is within the General class portion of the 15-meter phone band. (G1A10) Your New General Bands 21,300 kHz 15 CW, RTTY, data, phone and image

  16. Your New General Bands General class control operator frequency privileges The 14,305 kHz frequency is within the General class portion of the 20-meter phone band. (G1A08) 14,305 kHz 16 CW, RTTY, phone, image, and data …

  17. Your New General Bands The power output limitation on the 14 MHz band is the minimum power necessary to carry out the desired communications. (G1C04) Technically this applies to all transmissions by an Amateur Radio operator Phone operation is prohibited on the 30-meter band. (G1A02) and Image transmission is prohibited on the 30-meter band. (G1A03) 17 CW, RTTY and data

  18. Your New General Bands The maximum transmitting power an amateur station may use on 10.140 MHz is 200 watts PEP output. (G1C01) 10.140 MHz CW, RTTY and data 18

  19. General class control operator frequency privileges 7.250 MHz frequency is in the General Class portion of the 40-meter band. (G1A05) Your New General Bands 7250 kHz CW, RTTY and data … CW, phone and image

  20. Your New General Bands • An Amateur Radio operator holding an FCC-issued General Class license is authorized to be a control operator in ITU Region 2 operating in the 7.175 to 7.300 MHz band. (G1E03)

  21. Your New General Bands 60 meters is the only band with restricted communications on specific channels rather than frequency ranges.(G1A04) Five discreet, upper sideband voice channels No Morse code and no data transmissions 21

  22. Your New General Bands • 2.8 kHz is the maximum bandwidth permitted by FCC rules for Amateur Radio stations transmitting on USB frequencies in the 60 meter band. (G1C03) • Only Upper Sideband • Turn off speech processor to prevent exceeding 2.8 kHz • FCC rules require records be kept of the gain of your antenna on the 60 meter band if your antenna is other than a dipole. (G2D07) • Dipole gain is zero; • Must not exceed 50 watts effective radiated power output. • Notes kept in station logbook as permanent record

  23. Your New General Bands Recap No carrier…suppressed only. 23

  24. Your New General Bands • Move to a clear frequency when operating on 30 meters or 60 meters if a station in the primary service interferes with your contact. (G1A15) • Secondary users do not have priority use • FCC rules designate Amateur Service as a secondary user on certain bands, as such amateur stations are permitted to use such bands only if there is no harmful interference to primary users. (G1A14) • Primary users have priority use • A frequency of 3,900 kHz is within the General Class portion of the 75 meter band. (G1A07) 3.900 MHz Notice areas where there are no privileges for General Class. Generally on this band: phone operation is called 75 meters; CW operation is called 80 meters.

  25. General class control operator frequency privileges 3560 kHz frequency is within the General class portion of the 80-meter band. (G1A09) Your New General Bands 25 CW, RTTY, phone, and data … 3560 kHz

  26. General class control operator frequency privileges A General Class license holder is permitted to run up to 1500 watts of Peak Envelope Power on the 1.8 MHz band.(G1C06) 1500 watts on all bands except 60 meters and 30 meters. However, always run the minimum power necessary. Your New General Bands • CW, RTTY, data, phone, and image

  27. General class control operator frequency privileges When a General Class licensee is not permitted to use the entire voice portion of a particular band, the upper end or portion of the voice segment is generally available to them. (G1A12) Your New General Bands 27

  28. Your New General Bands • Voice privileges are usually at the top end of the band….except for 60 meters which has specific 5 channels of voice. • A portion of bands that are used in a voluntary basis called the “DX window” should not be used for stateside U.S. contacts. (G2B08) • There are NO amateur bands shared with the Citizens Radio Service. (G1A13)

  29. Element 3 General Class Question Pool Your New General Bands Valid July 1, 2011 Through June 30, 2015

  30. GA01 On which of the following bands is a General Class license holder granted all amateur frequency privileges? 20, 17, and 12 meters 160, 80, 40, and 10 meters 160, 60, 30, 17, 12, and 10 meters 160, 30, 17, 15, 12, and 10 meters 30

  31. G1A11Which of the following frequencies is available to a control operator holding a General Class license? 28.020 MHz 28.350 MHz 28.550 MHz All of these answers are correct 31

  32. G1C05 Which of the following is a limitation on transmitter power on the 28 MHz band? • 100 watts PEP output • 1000 watts PEP output • 1500 watts PEP output • 2000 watts PEP output

  33. G1E02 When may a 10 meter repeater retransmit the 2 meter signal from a station having a Technician Class control operator? Under no circumstances Only if the station on 10 meters is operating under a Special Temporary Authorization allowing such retransmission Only during an FCC-declared General state of communications emergency Only if the 10 meter control operator holds at least a General class license 33

  34. G1A06 Which of the following frequencies is in the 12 meter band? 3.940 MHz 12.940 MHz 17.940 MHz 24.940 MHz 34

  35. G1C02 What is the maximum transmitting power an amateur station may use on the 12 meter band? 1500 PEP output, except for 200 watts PEP output in the novice portion 200 watts PEP output 1500 watts PEP output Effective radiated power equivalent to 50 watts from a half wave dipole

  36. G1A10 Which of the following frequencies is within the General Class portion of the 15 meter band? 14250 kHz 18155 kHz 21300 kHz 24900 kHz

  37. G1A08 Which of the following frequencies is within the General Class portion of the 20 meter phone band? 14005 kHz 14105 kHz 14305 kHz 14405 kHz

  38. G1C04Which of the following is a limitation of power on the 14 MHz band? Only the minimum power necessary to carry out the desired communications should be used Power must be limited to 200 watts when transmitting between 14.100 MHz and 14.150 MHz Power should be limited as necessary to avoid interference to another radio service on the frequency Effective radiated power cannot exceed 3000 watts

  39. G1A02 On which of the following bands is phone operation prohibited? 160 meters 30 meters 17 meters 12 meters

  40. G1A03 On which of the following bands is image transmission prohibited? 160 meters 30 meters 20 meters 12 meters

  41. G1C01 What is the maximum transmitting power an amateur station may use on 10.140 MHz? 200 watts PEP output 1000 watts PEP output 1500 watts PEP output 2000 watts PEP output

  42. G1A05 Which of the following frequencies is in the General Class portion of the 40 meter band? 7.250 MHz 7.500 MHz 40.200 MHz 40.500 MHz

  43. G1E03In what ITU region is operation in the 7.175 to 7.300 MHz band permitted for a control operator holding an FCC-issued General Class license. Region 1 Region 2 Region 3 All three regions

  44. G1A04 Which of the following amateur bands is restricted to communication on only specific channels, rather than frequency ranges? 11 meters 12 meters 30 meters 60 meters

  45. G1C03 What is the maximum bandwidth permitted by FCC rules for amateur radio stations when operating on USB frequencies in the 60-meter band? 2.8 kHz 5.6 kHz 1.8 kHz 3 kHz

  46. G2D07 Which of the following is required by the FCC rules when operating in the 60-meter band? • If you are using other than a dipole antenna, you must keep a record of the gain of your antenna. • You must keep a log of the date, time, frequency, power level and stations worked. • You must keep a log of all third party traffic. • You must keep a log of the manufacturer of your equipment and the antenna used.

  47. G1A15 What is the appropriate action if, when operating on either the 30 or 60 meter bands, a station in the primary service interferes with your contact? Notify the FCC's regional Engineer in Charge of the interference Increase your transmitter's power to overcome the interference Attempt to contact the station and request that it stop the Move to a clear frequency

  48. G1A14 Which of the following applies when the FCC rules designate the amateur service as a secondary user on a band? Amateur stations must record the call sign of the primary service station before operating on a frequency assigned to that station. Amateur stations are allowed to use the band only during emergencies Amateur stations are allowed to use the band only if they do not cause harmful interference to primary users Amateur stations may only operate during specific hours of the day, while primary users are permitted 24 hour use of the band

  49. G1A07 Which of the following frequencies in within the General portion of the 75 meter phone band? 1875 kHz 3750 kHz 3900 kHz 4005 kHz

  50. G1A09 Which of the following frequencies is within the General Class portion of the 80 meter band? 1855 kHz 2560 kHz 3560 kHz 3650 kHz

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