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Beginners
Examinations
To earn your certificate with Basic Qualification, you’ll need to pass a written exam. This is a 70% pass-grade, 100-question multiple-choice test, covering such topics as radio operating practices, basic electrical theory, and the Radiocommunication regulations that apply to amateur radio. A mark of 80% or more gives the candidate the additional privileges of Basic […]
Call Signs
The Certificate of Proficiency in Amateur Radio is accompanied by a call sign used to identify the station. Canadian call signs normally have a national prefix consisting of two letters and a number, followed by a two- or three-letter suffix e.g. VE1AB, VA3ABC, VO1ZZ or VY2ZZZ. Call signs are allocated with different prefixes depending on […]
Requirements
How are Amateur Radio operators “authorized” in Canada? There is only one authorization to transmit – an Amateur Radio Operator Certificate with the Basic Qualification and Call Sign. Morse Code is no longer required! With the Morse Code Qualification for 5 words per minute sending and receiving, added to your Basic Qualification, you receive all […]
What Is Amateur Radio?
a form of communication; a hobby; a community service. It could be a school teacher in Nova Scotia making friends over the radio with another Radio Amateur in New Zealand; an Alberta teenager using her computer to upload a chess move through her radio which is retrieved by a fellow chess fan in Florida via […]