ARRL offering free basic electronics presentation

The ARRL Education and Technology Program is offering schools and clubs a CD-ROM presentation on basic electronics. The instructional presentation is available free of charge upon request.

"The Basic Electronics Course is intended for teachers and instructors who want a ready resource they can adapt to their instruction of electronics fundamentals," says ARRL Education and Technology Coordinator Mark Spencer, WA8SME. "The materials include a PowerPoint presentation and instructor's script."

Spencer says the course is designed around affordable components, a prototyping board and a volt-ohmmeter (VOM). The recommended text is Understanding Basic Electronics

"The course covers the very basics up to Ohm's Law and then touches on other components like capacitors, coils, diodes and transistors--components common to virtually all electronic circuits," Spencer explains. He says teachers or
instructors can use the presentation "as is" with the script or "cut and paste and roll their own" course.

"The course should take on the order of 10 hours to present," he notes. The PowerPoint presentation is on the order of 19 MB, so it is being made available on CD-ROM by request. Spencer has included a parts list and source.
Those with high-speed Internet connections may wish to download the PowerPoint presentation and the Instructor's Script MS-Word document.

For ARRL Education and Technology Program-participating schools, Spencer says he's kitted up the necessary parts, VOM, prototyping boards and text. That package is available by request to program schools as part of their progress grants.

For more information or to request a copy of the presentation, contact Mark Spencer, WA8SME, mspencer@arrl.org; 860-594-0396.

Source: ARRL Letter - courtesy of The American Radio Relay League

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