Technician and General Class Ham Radio License Classes Starting August 27, 2025

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We will be starting Tech and General License Classes on Wednesday evenings 7PM to 8PM starting August 27th at the Bluegrass Amateur Radio shack at the Lexington Red Cross location on 1450 Newtown Pike. Enter at the left side entrance for the basement education center.

 

Prereqs: Get a book on the License level(s) you want to achieve, or log into HAMSTUDY.ORG and take a few practice lessons. (No charge to log in as a guest.) We will be using HAMSTUDY.org in the classes. Much of either license exam are rules and operations, and much of that is memorization. We will cover those in class as required, but our main effort will be on the technical stuff so that you can understand those and not have to memorize. You will understand some simple circuitry and RF theory. We will start at the Technician Licensing questions and will move on to General (and even Extra as interest remains.)

 

If you not licensed yet and have an HT. (Handy Talkie) feel free to bring it. You can't transmit on one legally, but we will cover some operational usage. (And you can always listen to the nets on the air.) We will also help you if needed to program your HT to local repeaters and frequencies.

Any questions on the above, email Jim/AI4SR at sracing@mindspring.com.