I'm a bit more worried about having them memorize the Clapp, Colpitts,
and Pierce
Oscillators. Isn't that stuff still on Tech exam?

The Eternal Squire

On Jan 25, 8:01 pm, Lawrence Statton XE2/N1GAK
wrote:
writes:
All,

I have a situation, and would like some opinions rather than flames on
how to handle it. My wife teaches at a public school just off the
Easter Arizona Navajo reservation. Lately, a junior school science
teacher is starting up a science club and has asked me to provide for
the amateur radio side of the club and be its control operator.[much snippage]...

I won't flame you at all -- I admire your elmering, and think it's a
great idea.

I'd be exteremely careful to make sure you meet the field-strength
requirements of Part-15 with whatever project you do -- it can be
remarkably easy to get foul of it and reliable measurements require
skill.

Besides 80m and the top of the AM ex-band you might also consider
the lowfer 1750m stuff ... Lots of kits out there for it, and an
active user community.

Of course getting them all licensed would be the best solutiuon ...

Junior high is probably just at the edge of where passing the novice
or tech written would be a cake-walk. As I used to joke to my
classes, "there's three parts to the written -- three engineering
formulae: E=IR ; c = f lambda ; 40inches in a meter., a handful of
common sense questions, and a few memorizable factoids" (band edges,
etc.)

I had a sixth grader of average intelligence in one class - it was a
little harder for her, but she passed it on her second try.

--
Lawrence Statton - s/aba/c/g
Computer software consists of only two components: ones and
zeros, in roughly equal proportions. All that is required is to
place them into the correct order.