uh okay long overdue series this is a 2022 how to become a licensed amateur radio operator
certainly in the uk all right now i got a hold of a chat called uh steve at the rsgb i said steve
could you send me up a couple of foundation books intermediate and full just so i can show people
back home how they become a licensed operator and what is the foundation license particularly so
steve was kind enough to send me well hopefully this is this is it and it is not the latest
playboy magazine from america okay how to become a licensed operator in the uk and we've got the
foundation intermediate and the full license manual here but we are particularly interested
in this one here that is the the foundation license manual for amateur radio let's show
these you might do these another day who knows now this goes along with something on the internet
which you can download and have a look at as well which is foundation how do i spell syllabus
syllabus is that right foundation syllabus we're particularly after the rsgb
foundation syllabus that link there oh i'll put in the pin comment or you can find it
well look in description this is actually for me the most important thing because it's
although it's aimed probably at trainers and things like that everything in this
book is basically come out of this all right a foundation syllabus wants you to be able to recall
various things so that's why very often we will see words like recall that the amateur license is
for self training and radio communications blah blah blah so if you once you've done this book
and i'll do it all with you you can then go i mean it's only can't be that many pages
100 95. you read you skim through this and you and you could skim it in conjunction
with this book which is only 40 pages long all right let's skim over what this book is
and what the syllabus is about this man has kindly told us what the syllab what the training course
is he says this man here about the author alan betts it should take between 12 and 15
hours now the reality is i'm going to do this probably in about 90 minutes syllabus tells us
that the amateur license is for self-training all right it's a hobby basically it's for
self-training so when you get on the air you're not supposed to be an expert this is self-training
okay so i've been doing this nearly 20 years and i know about that much okay because the hobby or
the whole science of rf is an enormous topic so he tells us about the training course here
then we're going to go into i mean we're not going to cover materials information all right there's
plenty of data on the internet about that but you can buy you know if you've got if you allocate up
to a thousand pounds you get a lovely little station to set you off you could do it for 500
by the way a full station but um we'll do that another day we've got technical basics here
and particularly units and symbols all right once we get those under our belt we can move on
now there's a lot of data here in the book but don't worry about that because i've got an easy
way of taking you through it alternating current direct current we'll cover that we'll cover simple
transmitters receivers there's a couple of block diagrams that you just need to learn all right
just a couple of if because i don't know how many questions i'd say there's 25 questions as long as
you get like 18 19 right you'll pass because this is this is this is all about self-training right
we don't want to stop you getting on the air we want you on the air so just because you forget
what a block diagram looks like doesn't mean so you can't become an amateur radio approacher
we've got feeders and antennas how coax works what is um a balanced feeder what it's a piece of coax
different connector types we've got here basic antennas dbs dbs is fun we'll do one at that
one as well propagation how your signal goes from here to there license conditions
is just basically a bunch of rules all right so if you can if you took
a driving test you can drive a car then you'll easily be able to do your license conditions
so there's probably quite a lot of license conditions here but it's quite simple really
how to operate the operates practice and procedures it's easy you know how to cool
seek you how to get a contact that sort of thing the international uh phonetic alphabet you know so
i've got i've got some comments on that electromagnetic compatibility so that's all
about how things will interfere with you and how you interfere with things that you don't want to
and safety we don't want you falling off ladders or grabbing the top of a plug
you know you can get in a main shock it'll cover that as well oh look that's the man on the ladder
brilliant uh you get a copy of this the license schedule um in the exam actually
the exam's online you don't need to actually go somewhere you can do it so if you've got a webcam
and a bit of software and there's a man there and he'll talk to you you take the exam
it tells you all about the exam here so that's it ah and then we've got a syllabus cross reference
so you'll be able to look things up this page and what's on on the syllabus here
oh i didn't know they had that so this is a newer version of the foundation that i've got
lovely okay so we'll strap in and i'll kick the first one of these out in the next couple
of weeks in the meantime if you check the disc as soon as that foundation playlist is ready
i'll update the description so you can find it all right good uh if you want notified or want to put
a new one up you will have to subscribe and hit the bell blah blah blah or find a different way
in the meantime have a jolly good day you can't enjoy your radio yet
because you're not doing it but i am see you next time bye for now