General Radiotelephone Operator License Course
Introduction Video
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Week 1 Lecture and Q&A PPT
1: BASIC DC ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRONICS
Classroom Materials
Basic Electricity - What is an amp?
Basic Electricity - What is voltage?
Basic Electricity - Resistance and Ohm's law
Basic Electricity - Power and watts
2: COMBINING COMPONENTS
Classroom Materials
Resistors in Series and Parallel
3: ADVANCED OHM’S LAW PROBLEMS
Classroom Materials
Ohms Law Worksheet
Classroom Materials
What is Electromagnetic Induction?
5: GALVANIC CORROSION
Classroom Materials
Video: Galvanic Corrosion | Forms of Corrosion (5:43)
6: PARTS PER MILLION
Classroom Materials
How to visualize one part per million (2:27)
Week 2 Lecture and Q&A PPT
7: RADIO WAVES
Classroom Materials
Radio Waves (14:43)
Understanding ADF (8:54)
Understanding VOR (7:22)
Understanding ILS (12:48)
What is DME? (8:04)
8: SPREAD SPECTRUM
Classroom Materials
FHSS - Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (5:53)
LoraWAN: Extremely long range, low power wireless communication (6:27)
Classroom Materials
Capacitor Replacement Tutorial (2:26)
Fun with ultracapacitors!! (6:10)
EEVblog #33 1of2 - Capacitor Tutorial (10:00)
Inductor basics - What is an inductor? (3:53)
10:DIODES
Classroom Materials
Diode Tutorial & How to build an AC to DC power supply (11:19)
What is a zener diode? (6:37)
11: SEMICONDUCTOR
Classroom Materials
Transistor / MOSFET tutorial (4:49)
Voltage regulator tutorial & USB gadget charger circuit (6:27)
Switch mode power supply tutorial: DC-DC buck converters (10:04)
Silicon Valley Chapter 1 (optional) 15:13
Silicon Valley Chapter 2 (optional) 3:03
Classroom Materials
Basic Waveforms (2:20)
Week 3 Lecture and Q&A PPT
13: AC ELECTRICITY, REACTANCE, IMPEDANCE, AND RESONANCE
Classroom Material
Capacitive Reactance (3:36)
Inductive Reactance in Real Life (9:30)
Classroom Materials
Capacitor charge time calculation - time constants (5:58)
15: TRANSFORMERS
Classroom Materials
Transformers explained (5:40)
Transformer Failures (3:14)
16: DECIBEL
Classroom Materials
Decibels as Fast As Possible (5:19)
17: OSCILLATORS
Classroom Materials
What is an oscillator? (3:20)
18: RECEIVERS
Classroom Materials
How do Radios Work? (9:40)
Ham Radio Contest (5:00)
D64K CW Pileup at 1:55 aurora borealis
Week 4 Lecture and Q&A PPT
19: AMPLIFIERS
Classroom Materials
AMP HANDOUT
20: FILTERS
Classroom Materials
Passive RC low pass filter tutorial! (8:32)
Passive RC high pass filter tutorial! (5:50)
Filtering 101: Active vs. Passive (3:40)
Filtering 101: Chebyshev vs. Butterworth vs. Bessel (4:09)
Classroom Materials
What is an Op Amp | Operational Amplifier Basic (8:32)
Op Amp Non Inverting Amplifier Design (6:31)
Op Amp Inverting Amplifier Circuit Design (6:31)
Bob Pease Lab Notes Part 8 (optional)
22: SSB and AM
Classroom Materials
Understanding Single Sideband (5:34)
23: FM
Classroom Materials
Understanding Frequency Modulation (6:44)
Week 5 Lecture and Q&A PPT
25: ANTENNAS AND FEEDLINES
Classroom Materials
Panel TechTalk: Skin Effect (3:11)
Bird Directional Wattmeter Model 43 (1:56)
26: INTERFERENCE
Classroom Materials
ferrite bead demo (4:59)
Hunting for Radio Frequency Interference (2:50)
27: BATTERIES AND POWER SUPPLIES
Classroom Materials
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/logic-levels/ttl-logic-levels
28: MOTORS AND GENERATORS
Classroom Materials
Series DC Motor Connections (5:50)
30: SAFETY
Classroom Materials
RF Exposure Rules
Week 6 Lecture and Q&A PPT
Classroom Materials
Understanding Logic Gates (7:27)
32: MULTIVIBRATORS AND FLIP-FLOPS
Classroom Materials
How Flip Flops Work (9:02)
33: MICROPROCESSORS AND MEMORY
34: AIR NAVIGATION AND COMMUNICATION
Review Videos
Understanding ADF (8:54)
Understanding VOR (7:22)
Understanding ILS (12:48)
What is DME? (8:04)
Week 7 Lecture and Q&A PPT
39: REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE, TEST EQUIPMENT
40: INDUSTRY STANDARDS AND SPECIFICATIONS
100 Question Practice Tests
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