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Current resources for Amateur Radio Licensing produced by ARRL include the following:

• The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual, 1st edition, 2006
• The Technician Q&A, 4th edition, 2006
• The ARRL General Class License Manual, 6th edition, 2007
• The General Q&A, 3rd edition, 2007
• The ARRL Extra Class License Manual, 8th edition, 2003
• ARRL’s Extra Q&A, 1st edition, 2003
• The ARRL Instructor’s Manual for Technician and General License Courses, 4th edition

Additional Resources to Support Instruction and for Reference

• Understanding Basic Electronics, 1st edition, 2006
• Basic Radio, 2005
• The ARRL Handbook, 84th edition, 2007
• Getting Started with Ham Radio: A Guide to Your FIRST Amateur Radio Station is a new volume that provides valuable information for new radio amateurs.  Instructors may want to incorporate some of this material in licensing classroom curriculum

All of the above may be purchased through ARRL.  You can visit the ARRL on-line store at www.arrl.org/catalog/ for complete product descriptions.  However, you must call in your order to take advantage of the Instructor/Teacher discount. To register for the ARRL Instructor/Teacher discount program go to www.arrl.org/es/register.

• A Basic Electronics Course and Kit developed by Mark Spencer, WA8SME is available to use for individual study or group instruction.  You can download the course or purchase the already assembled kit

• Resources including instructional kits and lesson plans developed for ARRL’s Education & Technology Program, our outreach program to bring ham radio into the classroom, are also available to licensing instructors. Visit www.arrl.org/FandES/tbp/kits-projects.html  to review the various instructional tools available.

• Curriculum materials, including the Radio Lab Handbook

• Teacher’s Guide to Amateur Radio Instruction, by Peter Kemp KZ1Z (PDF)

• The Best of Educational Activities Forum.  Looking for some good ideas for instructing a class or recruiting newcomers?  The best articles from the Educational Activities Forum newsletter are here.  Intended for use by volunteer instructors who teach Amateur Radio licensing classes and by Amateur Radio recruiters.

Shared Instructional Resources and Study Guides

Links below will take you to instructional resources developed by radio amateurs that are being shared with the amateur radio community for use by others engaged in instruction and mentoring.

• N5NA’s Amateur Radio Instructor Resources on amateur radio topics for new hams such as “How to Operate HF” and “How to Solder a PL-259 Connector” as well as instructional resources to help you teach a licensing class.
• PowerPoints of Technician and General exam questions in question pool order for review
• Instructional materials for the Technician and General Class licenses including video clips demonstrating frequency and amplitude modulation.
• K3DIO’s Amateur Radio Resources for Instruction  or   http://www.rtsi.com/~HRInstructor/
• N8KBR’s Amateur Radio License Study Guides and Instruction Resources    
• Technician and General License instruction on podcast
• Licensing instruction with an EmComm focus  from Johnson County ARES
• Smith Chart tutorial
• AD7FO’s Extra Class study guide for the July 2008 question pool. Complete with calculations needed to respond to exam questions as well as supplementary explanations of some concepts. Instructors may request an MS Word version on CD.
• KB6NU’s Self Study Guides for the Technician and General exams. Also useful for instruction with youth and small groups.

Practice Exams

• Download ExamWin software from ARRL
• Other sites that offer practice exams:
  • QRX’s Practice Amateur Radio Exams
  • eHam.net Ham Exams
  • AA9PW Amateur Radio Practice Pages

Morse Code Practice

Though Morse code requirements have been eliminated there is still strong interest in becoming proficient at CW operation. You can refer students who are interested in learning and practicing Morse code to the following resources:

• Basic instructions for learning and practicing Morse code
• AA9PW’s practice sessions  allows choice of practice speed
• RufzXP-Tancredi provides practice to increase proficiency and track your progress
• Morse Code for Radio Amateurs, by Roger Cooke, G3LDI.
• Ham University--Extra and Morse Code Edition

• Code Practice Keys and Oscillators
  Instructions to build a practice oscillator can be found at the following sites:
  • www.arrl.org/news/features/2003/10/30/1/
  • www.arrl.org/tis/info/pdf/NYT.pdf (PDF)
  • www.arrl.org/tis/info/pdf/0102039.pdf (PDF)