Basic+ Radio Course

Study Hints for A Weekend Compressed Course

Information on the CDRom

The material on this CD/ROM has been developed to assist students who are preparing for the YARA compressed weekend course leading to writing the Basic+ exam. It supplements the RAC Study Guide and Industry Canada documents.

If you are anxious to try this out right away from on the CDROM, you can continue by starting with the Study Hints Home Page. If you want to get the full benefit from this CDRom you should read the information below. You will use your File Manger to copy some of the folders to your own documents folder, and install some of the programs.

1. Program Files

There are several programs that you may want to install to your computer:

You will find them in their own folders with brief instructions - Readme.txt. The OpenOffice suite will work on Windows, Apple and Linux. The other programs only work on Windows.

2. Document Files

There are also document files which should work on most computers. You can read these right from the CDRom, but they will work better (faster)if you copy the folder "Ham Radio" into your "documents" folder where you can easily find the information later.

2a. YARA study hints

Once you have copied the "Study Hints" folder and files to your computer, click on "Start_hints" or "Start_hints.htm" to load the YARA study hints into your Internet Brower.

2b. Industry Canada Documents

These documents have been downloaded from the Industry Canada Website. They are in Adobe Acrobat file format and can be read on any computer, including many PDA's. You need to have the free Adobe Reader or some other similar program on your computer to read them.

2c. Spreadsheets

There are files for Microsoft's Excel and for OpenOffice.org's Calc. They both work, but the latter hads more features.

These files can be loaded into their programs from the CDRom, but they must be saved on your hard drive or a memory chip. You can't save them to a CDRom. If your program won't let you enter the answers and says that it is "Read Only", you should first save the file to your hard drive with the "Save as" command in your "File" menu.

These files can be loaded into their programs from the CDRom, but they must be saved on your hard drive or a memory chip. You can't save them to a CDRom. If your program won't let you enter the answers and says that it is "Read Only", you should first save the file to your hard drive with the "Save as" command in your "File" menu.

If you have are having trouble with this you can contact one of the members of YARA or someone else who is familar with installing programs.

November 2007