Introduction

This license is useful to us because it gives us access to more of the RF spectrum and power privledge for our aircraft communications to ground. This page links to the required resources to get this license.

Resources

• Studying

  • Official Practice Question Generator

  • UWARC 2018 Study Guide

  • Emcomm 2009 Study Guide 

• Laws & Conventions

  • ARRL Q-Codes & Phonetic Alphabet

• Licensing

  • Contact Amateur Radio Service Center

  • Amateur Radio Operator Certificates Services

    • Frequently Asked Questions

  • Unused Available Call Sign Search  

  • Accredited Examiner Search

    • DiCiccio, Victor F.

  • RIC & RBR

    • RBR-4: Standards for the operation of radio stations in the Amateur Radio Service

    • RIC-3: Information on the Amateur Radio Service

      • “Non-qualified persons may use an amateur radio station, provided a qualified operator is present to perform the control functions.”

    • RIC-9: Call sign policy and special event prefixes

• Local Clubs

  • Kitchner-Waterloo ARC

    • Active as of W24

    • Hosts some events

  • University of Waterloo

    • UWaterloo ARC

      • Inactive as of W24

      • We could try to bring this back?

      • some equipment from the team remains for HF

    • Rocketry

      • Rocketry team potential has some HAM license holders as of W24

  • London ARC

    • Inactive as of W24

Exam

These are things you must bring to your exam:

• Photo ID

• Non-Programmable Calculator

• Three Unused Call Signs

• Your knowledge (obtained via studying and taking practice exams … )

License Holders

A list of WARG members with this license. Here for reference primarily, all licenses can be verified by searching the publicly available databases linked above so no PII (Use of Personally Identifiable Information ) concerns here.

• Daniel Puratich

  • AI7SR

  • VE3NWU