{"id":239,"date":"2021-03-25T16:04:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T20:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.k3nem.org\/?p=239"},"modified":"2021-03-25T16:04:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T20:04:49","slug":"operating-course-spring-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k3nem.org\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Operating Course &#8211; Spring 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The National Electronics Museum is sponsoring its well-received <strong>Operating Course a<\/strong>gain starting <span class=\"has-inline-color has-bright-red-color\"><strong>April 15, 2021<\/strong><\/span> and running each Thursday for 11 weeks from <span class=\"has-inline-color has-bright-red-color\"><strong>6:30 to 9:30 EDST<\/strong><\/span> on Zoom. \u00a0\u00a0There is no charge for participation. \u00a0The purpose of these classes is to provide information to help licensed radio amateurs to participate in the many on-the-air activities available in the hobby.\u00a0 The presenters are very experienced in their topics\u2014many are nationally known experts\u2014and they will be available to answer your questions following the presentations.\u00a0\u00a0 The exact order of presentations will be determined and published in the next few weeks.\u00a0\u00a0 These are independent presentations, and participants are free to participate in any or all of the evenings.\u00a0 \u00a0Feel free to pass this announcement along to others, but we request that all prospective attendees register by emailing Tom Christovich at\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:tom.christovich@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">tom.christovich@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0. You will receive confirmation of enrollment and the Zoom link for attendance by reply email.\u00a0 Here is a tentative list of topics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>All About Operating-an Introduction<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Amateur Radio Organizations: Local, National, and International clubs, societies and groups devoted to specific aspects of amateur radio<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ham Radio Operating Award Hunting\u2014from working Lighthouses to the DXCC Challenge<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>DXing<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>QSLing<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>VHF\/UHF Weak Signal Work<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Remote Station Control Over Internet<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>CW in the No-code Era<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Digital modes<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Imaging Operating<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Contesting<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Logging Software<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>HF Propagation<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Amateur Satellite Comms<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Portable (backpacking) Operation, including Park and Summits<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Setting Up an HF Station<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Emergency and Public Service Communications (ARES and RACES)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Traffic Handling<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Lightning Protection and Grounding<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Electronics Museum is sponsoring its well-received Operating Course again starting April 15, 2021 and running each Thursday for 11 weeks from 6:30 to 9:30 EDST on Zoom. \u00a0\u00a0There is no charge for participation. \u00a0The purpose of these classes is to provide information to help licensed radio amateurs to participate in the many on-the-air &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.k3nem.org\/?p=239\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Operating Course &#8211; Spring 2021&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k3nem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k3nem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k3nem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k3nem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k3nem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.k3nem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/www.k3nem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k3nem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k3nem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k3nem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}