Anyone in the Loja area interested in taking the test for an Ecuadorian Amateur Radio license PM me.
There will be (tentative plan) a five day course the first week of December. On five successive days, 6pm to 8pm at the LRC (Loja Radio Club) the knowledge needed for the subsequent test will be covered.
The LRC is near the bus terminal, up above the Sandi Chicken Restaurant.
The club station is impressive. LRC operates several 2 Meter repeaters linking Vilcabamba to Loja.
The test is, with minor exception, based on the US test question pool. The questions and answers, 300 pair I believe, will be provided. Naturally this is all in Spanish.
There is no slam dunk on this. No shortcut. Like many other things expat residents have accomplished in their home country they will need to repeat the process here in Ecuador.
I ask at the informational meeting last night if I could bypass the "Technician" class since I am an Extra class in the states, KC1CCG. Maybe I can, but I don't know for sure yet.
Radio Amateurs were the first experimenters on the air after Marconi and others, as early as 1900. Long before the term Electronics was coined they were building equipment and sending spark signals across town. Now after a full century there are maybe three quarters of a million engaged in the hobby around the world. I've been licensed since age twelve.
This club emphasizes fraternity and community. With patience this is a path toward making new friends in our adopted country. I expect it will also be intense immersion in Spanish for me....a good thing. Imagine communicating in Morse code in Spanish - that gets the brain firing on all cylinders.
sinego
There will be (tentative plan) a five day course the first week of December. On five successive days, 6pm to 8pm at the LRC (Loja Radio Club) the knowledge needed for the subsequent test will be covered.
The LRC is near the bus terminal, up above the Sandi Chicken Restaurant.
The club station is impressive. LRC operates several 2 Meter repeaters linking Vilcabamba to Loja.
The test is, with minor exception, based on the US test question pool. The questions and answers, 300 pair I believe, will be provided. Naturally this is all in Spanish.
There is no slam dunk on this. No shortcut. Like many other things expat residents have accomplished in their home country they will need to repeat the process here in Ecuador.
I ask at the informational meeting last night if I could bypass the "Technician" class since I am an Extra class in the states, KC1CCG. Maybe I can, but I don't know for sure yet.
Radio Amateurs were the first experimenters on the air after Marconi and others, as early as 1900. Long before the term Electronics was coined they were building equipment and sending spark signals across town. Now after a full century there are maybe three quarters of a million engaged in the hobby around the world. I've been licensed since age twelve.
This club emphasizes fraternity and community. With patience this is a path toward making new friends in our adopted country. I expect it will also be intense immersion in Spanish for me....a good thing. Imagine communicating in Morse code in Spanish - that gets the brain firing on all cylinders.
sinego
