I haven’t taught the Radio Merit Badge in years, I will however be teaching it the second week in September.  Do any of you have a file, or PowerPoint that you have used?  I had an older one but I wasn’t really happy with it and it didn’t follow the order.  Any help is appreciated..and if you just find yourself with nothing to do you are welcome to come and watch or help.  Right now it’s just me.

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Do any of you have a file, or PowerPoint that is relevant or useful for teaching Scouting #HamRadio Merit Badge that you'd be up for sharing?

Thanks!
y'all@NE4RD ?

HamRadio360  (@hamradio360) July 3, 2019

Thanks man.  I'm actually trying to get ahead of the game so I can do a good job.  Ive promised the kids that the first 2 to get their ticket get presented with the now discontinued Amateur Radio Operator tab that I bought extras of when they discontinued them.  We are doing the class at the local college AM station.

https://k2bsa.net/

Apparently you haven't hit the @K2BSA_Scouting  webpage.  We have the PowerPoints up there from merit badges classes at summer camp and Jamboree.

William Stearns  (@NE4RD) July 3, 2019

I’ve used those before. I teach the merit badge once a year.

Nope.  There was no k2bsa site last time I taught it.  Thanks.

Wow, they dropped circuits and schematics.  Those go with the electronics MB now.  That is a sign of the times now I guess....

Thanks for the help.  I will take a look at the presentations.

OP, check your messages.

~ Jup

Thread has been a excellent demonstration of the value of social media and twitter in particular.

Uh, GUYS!!!

(Waving hands overhead - trying to get your attention!!!)

I have a pdf file I put together that may be useful to you as part of this...

Helping with a bunch of Scouts (GREAT kids!) wanting to get their Radio merit badges, and as a ham club
representative I gave them a tour of the club station.  Each got some time on the mic (3rd party operation),
and had loaned them an Icom R75 and portable antenna system so they could do some dx'ing, write a log
of what they heard, etc.

For the R75 I had written a simple operation manual, with pictures, captions, arrows and circles, and
how to operation the radio.  But also, about propagation at various frequencies, etc.  Some suggested
frequencies to listen to, some foreign stations they could easily log, etc.

You may use all or part of this... it is in pdf format.  You may use it as a guide of how to prepare something
similar for your Troop.

To get this file you merely IM me with an email address.