[Sderby] Amateur radio licences

[Mike Hemstock]

Folks,

A while a go a few of you expressed an interest in getting an amateur radio 
licence.  I have spoken to Frank Whitehead (the last person in Derby to teach 
TV and radio repair!) today who advised me that he plans to run all three 
courses at Nunsfield House provided that he can get the numbers.

The courses will start in September starting with the Foundation, which runs 
for four weeks for three hours each Saturday morning.  Following on from that 
is the Intermediate and Full RAE.  They are a little (read: quite a lot) more 
involved and run for quite a while!  As I understand it (and maybe Paul or 
Stuart could confirm or deny this) you can start with any course you like, so 
if you think you might be interested, try the foundation and if you know your 
interested go for the RAE.

There are currently 6 people signed up for the foundation, so that course will 
run and you are welcome to join it.  The RAE currently has one person signed 
up, so I'd like five others to sign up so that the course will run!!!

The foundation is £25 and the others are a little more.  If anyone has any 
questions please email me.  If anyone would like to sign up, email me for 
more info.  If anyone thinks this info is inaccurate, it probably is!

If anyone would like an example question off the former Novice exam, here it 
is:

Q. Smoke can be seen coming from the vents of a piece of electrical equipment.  
Should you:

A) Have a bucket of water ready in case the equipment catches fire.
B) Allow the smoke to continue until the equipment catches fire.
C) Turn it off.
D) Make a note of the event in the station log book.

Once again, five people need to volunteer for the RAE, otherwise I will pick 
five!

Mike.