Volunteers from the Alachua County ARES(R)/NFARC club and others have joined together to offer another Extra Class marathon course using Friday evening, most of Saturday, and Sunday afternoon on the weekend of Nov 19-21.

For further details and registration, please see:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfcyoOcAiWxhF7jyuM3_GhW1277cMPj5gj01JpTeW6P_3T6ag/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0&usp=mail_form_link  and register there.

We always do a “hands-on” course as much as possible.   This time we are going to have teams solder together a simple radio receiver and investigate how it works.   This little receiver uses “direct conversion” from a digitally created VFO, with a digital display and rotary encoder control, but a very stock-standard diode-ring product detector and simple audio amplifier system.   It is just great for getting new Extra Class licensees without a formal background in electronics, to understand quite a bit about the little components and circuits that go together to allow us to communicate.

We already have a healthy number of participants, including both people working on the license as well as folks just coming to “audit”.    The tentative SCHEDULE for the course is also now available at:   https://qsl.net/nf4rc/2021/TentativeSchedule.pdf