GROL Course

 General Radiotelephone Operator License Course

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Classroom References


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

4: MAGNETISM

        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)

9: CAPACITORS AND INDUCTORS

    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

12: WAVEFORMS

    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)

14: TIME CONSTANTS

    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)

21: OPAMPS

    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)

24: BANDWIDTH

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)

29: RMS AND PEP

30: SAFETY

    Classroom Materials
    RF Exposure Rules

Week 6 Lecture and Q&A PPT

31: TTL

    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)  

35: MARINE COMMUNICATIONS 

36: RADAR


Week 7 Lecture and Q&A PPT
 

37: PULSE MODULATION

38: SATELLITES

39: REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE, TEST EQUIPMENT

40: INDUSTRY STANDARDS AND SPECIFICATIONS


100 Question Practice Tests

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Part 1 (50) questions testmoz.com/8763932
Part 2(50) question testmoz.com/8764078


Week 8 TEST
Good Luck!


Week 9 Element 1 Marine Operator Licence


Hour 1

Hour 2
7) Bridge-to-Bridge Operations 
8) Operating Procedures Part 1 
9) Operating procedures Part 2 
10) Distress Communications 
11) Urgency and Safety Communications 

Hour 3
12) GMDSS 
13) VHF Equipment Controls 
14) VHF Channel Selection 
15) MF/HF Equipment Controls 
16) MF/HF Freqencys and Emission Selection 
17) Equipment Tests 

Hour 4
18) Equipment Faults 
19) Antennas 
20) Power Sources 
21) EPIRB‘s 
22) SART 23) Survival Craft VHF
24) Navtex 25) Definitions


Weeek 10 FCC Element 1 Exam
Good Luck!