FCC Courses
Course Objective:
To provide students with the skill and knowledge needed to become FCC licensed in any or all of these Elements: 1 , 3 & 8. On-site exams are given in the classroom upon course completion, and are provided by Elkins Institute.
FCC 100 General Radiotelephone Operator (Elements 1 & 3)
16/0/1.0
A study of the basic essentials covering Code of Federal Rules and Regulations, basic electricity, direct/alternating current, transformers, motors & generators, semiconductors, power supplies, digital circuitry-measurements, AM, FM, receivers, transmitters, emission/frequency ranges, antennas, effective radiated power, UHF, avionics, and more.
FCC 105 General Radiotelephone Operator with Radar Endorsement (Elements 1, 3 & 8)
24/0/1.0
A study of the basic essentials involving maritime rules and regulations, including basic radio definitions, operational procedures, priority of communications, antenna requirements, station logs, inspections, and other basic items. Element 3 consists of electronics, radio and antenna fundamentals, which includes radio practices, electrical principles, circuit components, practical circuits, signals and emissions, antennas and feed lines, and radio wave propagation. Element 8 covers FCC Rules and Regulations pertaining to radar stations, introduction to radar, radar equations, radar ranges and their corresponding time intervals, radar transmitters and receivers, automatic frequency control (AFC), mixer stages, IF amplifier stages, discriminators, magnetrons, klystrons, traveling wave tubes (TWT), waveguides, radar antennas, duplexers and calculators, the echo box, the plan position indicator (PPI), pulsed radar, navigational radar systems, the Doppler effect and the CW radar system, radar interference, and radar unit operation and maintenance.
For the most current schedule and cost please refer to the NCI Catalog
ACADEMIC COURSE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
2019 – 2020 SCHEDULE
TERM
CLASS DATE
REGISTRATION DEADLINE
FCC.19.01
January 26-27, 2019
January 18, 2019
FCC.19.04
April 27-28, 2019
April 19, 2019
FCC.19.07
July 27-28, 2019
July 19, 2019
FCC.19.10
October 26-27, 2019
October 18, 2019
FCC.20.01
January 25-26, 2020
January 10, 2020
FCC.20.04
April 25-26, 2020
April 13, 2020
FCC.20.07
July 25-26, 2020
July 13, 2020
FCC.20.10
October 24-25, 2020
October 12, 2020
ADD / DROP PERIOD ENDS: The first day of class
Withdrawal fee will apply
*Two Day / 12 Hour Per Day Schedule
SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE