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Posted: **Mon May 26, 2008 5:02 pm**

slipknot wrote:How oftern do these courses or exams come around in perth?

Some info here http://hamcollege.com.au/wordpress/?page_id=3

Posted: **Mon May 26, 2008 5:09 pm**

VK6ZMS wrote:My spies tell me you passed the exam this week .... well done !

Damn those spies - can't keep anything quiet around here

I did ... Standard Theory and Regs down, and with a truckful of luck, Advanced Theory by the end of the year

If ACMA are kind to me, I'll be VK6LAN in a few weeks once they process my Standard paperwork.

Posted: **Mon May 26, 2008 5:15 pm**

slipknot wrote:How oftern do these courses or exams come around in perth?

Courses:

Saturday & Sunday, 19 â€“ 20 July 2008
Saturday & Sunday, 20 â€“ 21 September 2008
Saturday & Sunday, 22 â€“ 23 November 2008

The courses are two full days (9am to 5pm on the Saturday 10am to 5pm on the Sunday) and will teach you everything you need to know to get on air as a Foundation licensee.

Exams are run once a month - if you've done a Foundation course, the exam will be the following weekend. People wanting to sit their Standard or Advanced theory, or Standard/Advanced Regs can also book in for one of the exam dates ... which are:

Saturday 31st May
Saturday 28th June
Saturday 26th July
Saturday 30th August
Saturday 27th September
Saturday 25th October
Saturday 29th November
Saturday 20th December

Posted: **Mon May 26, 2008 5:54 pm**

THANKS! - how many watts can you transmitt on with foundation licence?

All i know is that with the advanced get 400 watts ssb
and about 130 on AM and FM.

Posted: **Mon May 26, 2008 6:02 pm**

slipknot wrote:THANKS! - how many watts can you transmitt on with foundation licence?

deja vu

10 watts.
More info here
http://www.wia.org.au/licences/foundation/about/

Posted: **Mon May 26, 2008 6:16 pm**

Damn, Becuase im trying to get a mobile radio that can be set to 10 watts. There was a radio that a saw that was good but unfortuneatly only has the presets of 5 - 15 - 50 watts. 5 is too low, 15 is too high.

THANKS!

Posted: **Mon May 26, 2008 9:58 pm**

What are you after ive got a 2m mobile radio in the box been used twice its a yaesu ft1802 m/e its power settings are 5w 10w 25w 50w if your interested in buying it let me know.Cheers Grant vk6ngs

Posted: **Tue May 27, 2008 6:59 am**

slipknot, I can preset the power of any radio for you to ensure compliance.

Posted: **Tue May 27, 2008 8:56 am**

I found one! Its a Yeasu radio (if thats how you spell it) Has the presets of 5 10 15 and 50 i think, Definatly has 10 so thats great. Now i just have to work out how to get the training and exam all the way down where i live.

Thanks anyway Nick, i do appreciate it.
And thanks for your help also vk6ngs.

Posted: **Tue May 27, 2008 11:12 am**

Posted: **Tue May 27, 2008 4:19 pm**

10 watts in Karrinyup is more than enough power. Make sure your antenna is a couple of meters above the roof line.

Posted: **Tue May 27, 2008 9:12 pm**

do you think so? I hopefully should be able to hit the joondalup repeater , That is , if it has irlp, can anyone confirm this.

thanks mate

Posted: **Wed May 28, 2008 7:42 pm**

http://hamcollege.com.au/wordpress/

Looks like Ham College gets some nice looking people attending their courses too...

Cheers, CC

Posted: **Wed May 28, 2008 8:14 pm**

Thanks guys.

Posted: **Thu May 29, 2008 4:46 pm**

slipknot wrote:the only thing im worried about is that im going to be moving to karrinyup soon an od setting up my base there and im a bit worried that I wont be able to hit any repeaters on that have IRLP on VHF or UHF at only 10 watts. As of now living in bunbury, its a bit hard to attend a foundation theory course living in a remote area.

The weekend I did my Foundation course, we had a husband and wife join us from Collie. I think they came up and stayed with relatives or friends for a couple of nights, so that might be something you could do if you have people up here you can stay with ...

The exam for the Foundation licence is normally the next Saturday after the course, but if you talk Ham College, perhaps they can suggest an alternative to having to come back to Perth again...

As for repeaters and IRLP, if you look at the website of the WA Repeater Group (WARG), you'll see that there's a few 2m and 70cm repeaters around the place. The list shows that VL6RLM in Lesmurdie in on EchoLink and VK6RVP in Vic Park and VK6RFM in Freo are both on IRLP. From the Northern Corridor Radio Group, VK6RNC in Wanneroo also has an IRLP node number.

You shouldn't have any trouble hitting at least one of those repeaters from Karrinyup. Heck, if I can get into Roleystone on a 5 Watt handheld from Neerabup, anything's possible

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