I’ve been teaching Technician classes for about four years now as a way of paying back the ham Elmers who started me on this path 46 years ago. My usual class size is typically about a dozen, and I’ve been doing at least two classes a year. Most of them have been in the East Bay (Newport County) area, and my club sponsors the classes by paying for half the cost of the student materials, plus offering those students that pass the exam a “free” BaoFeng UV5R dual-band HT when they join the club.
I was contacted by a Fire Chief in Foster RI this summer who asked me to setup a class for his team and some others this fall. I held the first class this past Tuesday and had 25 students: a mix of Fire Chiefs, CERT team members, and lay people from the NW part of Rhode Island and nearby CT. It was a great group of folks and I look forward to haveing them all get their license at the end of October.
