[Waverley ARS] next weekends Foundation course

[Brad Crowe]

Hi everyone,

Our next Foundation licence course is happening 
next weekend (July 15-16).  Eric will be overseas 
so Raffy VK2RF, possibly Binu VK2BNG and I will 
be (first time) WIA Assessors.  Grant VK2TU is 
officiating as our experienced Invigilator.

Would all those able to help with the lecturing 
please let me know as soon as possible by 
e-mail.  Or if you are just available to help 
that is appreciated as well. The course will be 
the same format as earlier ones with various 
lecturers sharing the load.  There is no need for 
lecturers to attend the whole of the weekend, 
although they are more than welcome.  I will post 
an e-mail of the final schedule of lectures later 
on but basically the lectures closely follow the Foundation License book.

The course will be in 5 sessions, 4 on Saturday 
and one on Sunday followed by the assessments.

A DRAFT plan is as follows:
         If you have any comments or suggestions, 
please let me know!  I can't find where Eric set 
out various start times for prior courses, so I 
am certain that the below times will need to be 
fine tuned, again any comments would be 
appreciated.  Does anyone have the past schedule 
with start time for each sessions?

Session 1 (SATURDAY morning)
         8:30    Registration
         8:45    Introduction – Slides 1-10
         9:15    Nature of Amateur Radio – Slides 11-15
         10:15   Break
         10:30   Practical exercise using HTs to make contacts
         11:00   Licence Conditions – Slides 16-26

Session 2 (SATURDAY morning)

         12:00   Technical Basics – Slides 27-51

LUNCH
         1:30    Lunch - suggest next door at the Rose Bay RSL

Session 3 (SATURDAY afternoon)

         2:15    Transmitters & Receivers – Slides 52 – 70
         3:15    Break including practical HF contacts
         3:45    Transmission Lines & Antennas – Slides 71 – 93
         5:00    End of day

Session 4 (SATURDAY afternoon)

         8:30    Propagation – Slides 94-103
         9:45    Break including practical exercise using SWR and ATU
         Interference – Slides 104-118

Session 5 (SUNDAY morning)

         8:30    IRLP & Repeaters – Slides 135-136
         9:30    practical exercise using HTs for 
IRLP and tones for repeaters demonstration
         10:00   Safety – Slides 120-134
         11:00   End of lectures

Session 6 (SUNDAY afternoon)

         11:30   Written examinations commence
                 (for Foundation 10 minutes 
instruction, 10 minutes reading time and 30 minutes exam)
                 We need to make some practical 
consideration for those sitting Standard Theory 
and Reg exams as these are longer duration.  Suggestions???
         12:30   assessors commence marking
         1:00    Lunch
         1:45    Practical Assessments begin (approx 30 minutes per person)

The sessions should take around 1 – 1 ½ hour each 
with practical sessions between sessions. A break 
for lunch will be between sessions 2 and 3 with 
session 5 on Sunday morning after which the assessments will take place.

We won't have Eric to do the first session this 
time!  Would those of you who have volunteered to 
help with the lecturing please let me know which 
session(s) you would prefer to do.

Lecturers can download the slide show for their 
presentation from the WIA web site if they want 
to brush up a little on their subject.
Go to:  http://www.wia.org.au/
         EDUCATION
                 ACCREDITED ASSESSOR INFORMATION
                         FOUNDATION TRAINING SLIDES V1.1
(It is about 8Mb)

Also go to the following which is instructive 
reading summarising what we need to teach or what 
the candidates may be examined on.
         EDUCATION
                 FOUNDATION LICENSE
                         FOUNDATION LICENSE SYLLABUS
73 Brad VK2CEC