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Index
Title Page
Table of Contents
Upgrading to general class
Where do I take the test?
Can I really learn how to be an amateur radio operator using this simple study guide?
How do I use this manual?
Good luck and have fun!
Electrical principles
Reactance; inductance; capacitance; impedance; impedance matching
The Decibel; current and voltage dividers; electrical power calculations; sine wave root-mean-square (RMS) values; PEP calculations
Resistors, capacitors, and inductors in series and parallel; transformers
Circuit Components
Resistors; capacitors; Inductors; rectifiers; solid state diodes and transistors; vacuum tubes; batteries
Analog and digital integrated circuits (IC’s); microprocessors; memory; I/O devices; microwave IC’s (MMIC’s ); display devices
Practical Circuits
Power supplies and schematic symbols
Digital circuits; amplifiers and oscillators
Oscillators and amplifiers
Receivers and transmitters, filters, oscillators
Signals and Emissions
Carriers and modulation: AM; FM, single and double sideband, modulation envelope, overmodulation
Frequency mixing, multiplication, bandwidths of various modes, deviation; duty cycle
Digital emission modes
Antennas and Feed Lines
Antenna feed lines: characteristic impedance, attenuation, SWR calculation, measurement and effects, matching networks
Basic antennas
Directional antennas
Specialized antennas
Radio Wave Propagation
Sunspots and solar radiation, ionospheric disturbances, propagation forecasting, and indices
Maximum Usable Frequency, Lowest Usable Frequency, propagation
Ionospheric layers, critical angle and frequency, HF scatter, Near Vertical Incidence Sky-wave
Amateur Radio Practices
Station Operation and set up
Test and monitoring equipment, two-tone test
Interference with consumer electronics, grounding, DSP
Speech processors, S meters, sideband operation near band edges
HF mobile radio installations; emergency and battery powered operation
Operating Procedures
Phone operating procedures, USB/LSB utilization conventions, procedural signals, breaking into a QSO in progress, VOX operation
Operating courtesy; band plans; emergencies, including drills and emergency communications
CW operating procedures and procedural signals, Q signals and common abbreviations, full break in
Amateur Auxiliary, minimizing interference, HF operations
Digital operating: procedures, procedural signals, and common abbreviations
Electrical and RF Safety
RF safety principles, rules and guidelines, routine station evaluation
Safety in the ham shack: electrical shock and treatment, safety grounding, fusing, interlocks, wiring, antenna and tower safety
Commission's Rules
General Class control operator frequency privileges, primary and secondary allocations
Antenna structure limitations, good engineering and good amateur practice, beacon operation, restricted operation, retransmitting radio signals
Transmitter power regulations, data emission standards
Volunteer Examiners and Volunteer Examiner Coordinators, temporary identification
Control categories; repeater regulations; harmful interference; third party rules; ITU regions; automatically controlled digital station
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