Amateur Radio Licensing Class

Amateur radio is a great way to learn and practice signal processing and communications. The first license is Technician, and it gives you full access to all the amateur bands from VHF on up.

The amateur radio club will be running a course to help you get your Technician and General licenses. There will be a class winter quarter.

The test will be available on-line.

PDFs of the course notes from the Winter 2026 Technician class are below:

• Overview
• VHF/UHF FM, simplex, repeaters
• Regulations
• Propagation and antennas
• Radios, power, RF interference, safety

These will be revised as we go through them.

Course Books

The class will take you through the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) book for the Technician Class license:

ARRL Ham Radio Technician License Manual
Amazon link

If there is interest, we'll also cover the material for the General Class license:

ARRL Ham Radio General License Manual
Amazon link