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NEWINGTON, CT, Apr 12, 2002--The ARRL Certification and Continuing Education (C-CE) Program soon will introduce its newest on-line course--HF Digital Communications (EC-005). Registration for the new course opens Monday, April 15. This will be the fifth course in the growing list of continuing education offerings from ARRL.
"Students will understand the scope of HF digital Amateur Radio communications as they exist today," said ARRL C-CE Program Coordinator Dan Miller, K3UFG. "This course will develop your awareness and skills for the HF digital modes and assist you to use and benefit from them."
Students who plan to take HF Digital Communications should have a Pentium PC or Mac PowerPC (200 MHz minimum processor speed) running Windows 98 or above, MacOS or Linux and equipped with a 16-bit sound card. Students also must have the ability to download and install applications from and be able to purchase or construct the necessary audio cables and transmit/receive switching interface.
Students taking the course will become familiar with the scope of HF digital Amateur Radio communication modes available and learn how to use all of them. The curriculum was developed by QST Editor and digital enthusiast Steve Ford, WB8IMY, the author of ARRL's HF Digital Handbook.
"Having a resident expert like Steve Ford is a definite plus!" Miller said. The course covers many of the topics contained in Ford's book as well as some new material. In addition to authoring the HF Digital Handbook, now in its second edition, Ford has demonstrated digital techniques at hamfests and conventions.
Early in the ARRL HF Digital Communications Course, students will learn how to configure a station for HF digital work, then learn about such topics as chasing digital DX and HF digital contesting. Students will become acquainted with RTTY, PSK31, MFSK, Hellschreiber, PACTOR, PACTOR II, WinLink 2000, Clover and HF packet, and they will need no prior experience with any of them.
Registration for the first on-line class opens Monday, April 15, at 4 PM Eastern Daylight Time, and there's a 50-seat class limit this month. Registration will remain open through the following weekend or until all seats are filled--whichever comes first. As with most other ARRL on-line classes, students will have up to eight weeks to complete the course of study.
Tuition for HF Digital Communications (EC-005) is $60 for ARRL members and $90 for nonmembers. Miller points out that ARRL members are offered a discount, because membership dues offset a small portion of the development costs for this and other ARRL Certification and Continuing Education courses. More course information is available at the C-CE Course Listing Page.
The ARRL Certification and Continuing Education offered its first on-line class--in Amateur Radio Emergency Communications--in December 2000. Since then, the highly successful emergency communications series has expanded to three levels and benefited hundreds of amateurs. In February of this year, the program added its first technical offering, a class in Antenna Modeling (EC-004) that also has proven very popular.
Additional details about the ARRL
Certification and Continuing Education Program can be found at the ARRL Certification and Continuing Education
Web page. To learn
more, contact C-CE Program Coordinator Dan Miller, K3UFG, cce@arrl.org.
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