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HacDC entry-level (Technician) Amateur License test preparation class

Dates and Times

The class will be held at the Space on two consecutive Saturdays: February 11 and 18 from 1 to 4 PM. The following Saturday: February 25 at 9 AM (sharp) will be be the exam at the Winterfest at the Northern Virginia Community College Annandale Campus.

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About

Add another tool to your Maker toolkit: an Amateur Radio License. Amateur Radio Operators (Hams) have a long history of "Homebrewing": building their own equipment and experimenting in the hopes of making it work better, and the community has grown a tremendous breadth. There is tremendous overlap between the Ham and the Maker communities.

HacDC has it's own club license: W3HAC, which we originally obtained to use ham radio for position tracking during our balloon flights using APRS (Automatic Packet Reporting System) on VHF and UHF frequencies; designing and building our own lightweight transmitter for the balloon payload. We have many Hams here, some with quite advanced licenses, and a bi-monthly meeting to discuss technical aspects of radio-based communication and build stuff.