Amateur Radio Classes and Licensing information

Talk to the World! Amateur Radio, Technician Class License Training sponsored by WWI. The FREE training sessions will be on Tuesday nights 7:00 - 8:00 starting March 21st, 2006 and ending May 9th, 2006 in time for the next Mt. Vernon VEC testing session. Invite your friends and family members to attend and get their ticket to an exciting new world of fun and adventure. For details or to volunteer to help, contact John K5VG.

Classes will be held at Grace Baptist Church, 14242 Spriggs Road, Dale City VA.

Participants need to purchase a textbook.  Textbook is Gordon West Technician Study Guide Published by W5YI.  Available at Ham Radio Oulet in Woodbridge (703-643-1063) and some Radio Shack Stores. 

Everyone - Please print out the flyer for our upcoming Technician License Training Class and place a couple of copies in public locations, such as the bulletin board or front window of grocery stores and other businesses. Click here to open the flyer

License examinations are conducted locally by the Mount Vernon VEC on the second Saturday of each month at the First Christian Church, 2723 King St., Alexandria, VA. More look up information on licensing exams in your area.

You can even take a practice exam on the Internet, or search the on-line database for your new license. If you don't know what your new callsign is yet, start by just searching on your last name. If that produces too many hits, try last name comma first name. Note that the search engine considers suffixes to be part of the last name, so to search on John Q. Public, IV, you would enter Public IV, John. Don't enter a Radio Service Code. (You can, but you'd better enter the correct one. For some reason, the FCC has separate Radio Service Codes for "Amateur" and "Vanity" callsigns. You won't get any data if you choose the wrong one; it's best left unselected.)