One day Ham Class-North Salt Lake City

[rflistner2000]

The City of North Salt Lake (Davis County) will be hosting a one day Ham Radio class and exam on March 19th. The class will start at 08:00 and end around noon. Then there will be self study time followed by the exam. For further information or to register for the class, contact Gary Davis at KE7MQF@ARRL.NET. You must register for the class by 16 March to attend.

[northernscout]

Do you have ham upgrading classes? Just wondering because we have been running short courses for a while now, over 700 members have participated. Of those who certified, and most did, the actual participation afterward is very poor. Turnout for upgrading classes is spotty. When we have a class a few will turn out for class but then for the next class it's often mostly a different group of people and so there are a lot of holes in the educational process.

I'm comparing that to a long class that I have worked with through a local amateur radio club. There the course would start in the beginning of January and run until the first week or two of April, twice a week for two hours a night plus several Saturday morning clinics. We charged those people $200 each for their training and very few dropped out and most became active after being certified. I know it's quite a different scenario. It sure would be good to have a higher active rate among LDS members. It would be nice to see a higher percentage of church leaders take the course and become active too.

My question to all is - "is a church leader in charge of a ward or stake still a leader if they cannot communicate after some sort of disaster, natural or man made?" I think that the answer is obvious. It seems like they all assume that satellite communications will work and or cell phones will work. Not worth a persons life to trust those mediums.

[rflistner2000]

At this time, I do not offer upgrade class's. there is a General class going on now in Centerville, UT. The class is 6, two hour sessions, one each week. The first class was last week. There is still room (and time) to sign up. Contact me via e-mail (ke7mqf@arrl.net) for more info.

I will be holding another one day Tech class on 19 Nov.

[lilyloohoo]

Will there still be a one-day Tech class on Nov 19th? If so, where and what times?

[rflistner2000]

I have another 1 day Technician level class scheduled for 17 March, 2012. Class will be held at the North Salt lake City Hall, City of North Salt lake. Class starts at 08:00, and exams (open to all) will start around 1:00PM. for further info, e-mail KE7MQF@ARRL.NET.