Course Description

This intensive two-week course will instruct the participants in the skills of radio monitoring methods as utilized within an administration’s communications regulatory department or agency. It will focus on monitoring methods that can be adapted to a broad range of equipment sophistication. Participants will work alongside enforcement staff at a field facility of the Federal Communications Commission. The course provides practical instruction in all aspects of the facility’s work including: radio direction finding, off-the-air technical measurements, signal identification, interference resolution and regulation compliance. The course addresses high frequency, VHF/UHF and satellite monitoring.

To be able to: (1) operate contemporary radio monitoring equipment; (2) measure radio signal parameters; (3) use a variety of direction finding techniques; (4) identify radio emissions; (5) secure compliance with radio regulations; and (6) select optimum monitoring methods for local requirements.

Note: Due to limited working space, this course is limited to individuals who are, or who are expected to be, working directly in the field of radio monitoring.

Technical

Sept 14-15,2000

Sept 18-29,2000

Columbia, Maryland

K2-304, or K2-306