{"id":26667,"date":"2021-02-15T12:48:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T12:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=26667"},"modified":"2024-08-12T15:55:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T14:55:10","slug":"intermediate-licence-manual-for-radio-amateurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/publications\/books-extra\/2021\/02\/15\/intermediate-licence-manual-for-radio-amateurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Intermediate Licence Manual for Radio Amateurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

2nd Edition<\/span><\/h3>\n

by R. Bleaney M0RBK, G. Smart M1GEO and D. Mills G7UVW<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nThis is the latest book for those studying for their Intermediate Amateur radio licence. The Intermediate Licence Manual contains all of the information required for those seeking to upgrade their Foundation callsign.<\/p>\n

Designed to cover all elements of the Amateur Radio Intermediate licence syllabus, this second RSGB course-book The Intermediate Licence Manual is written in an easy to understand style.\u00a0 Broken down into familiar chapters such as Licence Conditions, Basic Electronics, Transmitters & Receivers and Antennas, this book contains plenty of helpful advice, including important safety tips.<\/p>\n

Simply put The Intermediate Licence Manual is THE book for those working to pass the Amateur Radio Intermediate Licence exam.<\/p>\n

This book is obsolete as of the 31st August 2024
\n<\/strong><\/span>and has been replaced by a 3rd Edition<\/span><\/a>
\nno further updates will now be posted<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Corrections and updates<\/h3>\n

We are shipping the 2nd edition of this book and the significant corrections and updates to this are provided below. These changes are made to the printed edition when it is reprinted and there can be various printings in circulation, so it is worth checking your copy against the updates below. We are currently shipping an edition marked:<\/p>\n

First Printed 2020<\/strong>
\nReprinted 2020<\/strong>
\nReprinted with amendments 2021, 2022 & 2023
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

This edition has been updated to include all prior corrections and does contain a small number of expanded and revised explanations not included in earlier printings.<\/p>\n

As of the 1 September 2022 the Exam syllabus used by the examinations will be version 1.5.\u00a0 The changes made to the syllabus primarily concern the introduction of the requirement for all amateurs to check compliance with EMF (Electromagnetic Field) exposure limits.\u00a0 The current edition of the Intermediate Licence Manual is compliant with syllabus 1.5.\u00a0 For those using previous editions of the book we have provided a supporting leaflet that details these important changes, this can be obtained as a free of charge download from here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Corrections to the 2022 Printing<\/span><\/h3>\n

Page 31, The Transistor Amplifier
\n<\/strong>Column 2, paragraph 2
\nReplace the last two paragraphs in this section with the text contained in this 782kb PDF download<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Corrections to the 2021 Printing<\/span><\/h3>\n

Page 44, Signal Processing
\n<\/strong>Column 2, paragraph 2
\nOn line 6, remove \u2018100 kHz\u2019<\/strong> and replace with \u201810kHz\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Corrections to the 2020 Printing
\n<\/span><\/h3>\n

Under the following headings please make the following amendments<\/p>\n

Page 11, Electromagnetic Radiation<\/strong>
\ncolumn 3, paragraph 1
\nChange \u2018Health Protection Agency (HPA)\u2019 to \u2018Public Health England and the International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection (ICNIRP)\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Page 14, Resistor Values<\/strong>
\ncolumn 1, paragraph 3
\nDelete first sentence and replace with \u2018You will be given the resistor colour code in the exam.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Page 24, Transformers<\/strong>
\nFig 4.33
\nChange caption to read \u2018Circuit representation of a transformer\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Page 39, Tuned RF receiver<\/strong>
\nColumn 3, paragraph 1
\nBeneath the heading \u2018Tuned RF receiver\u2019 <\/strong>insert a sentence \u2018Please note that this is not a syllabus item but it illustrates points from other parts of the syllabus\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Page 44, Signal Processing
\n<\/strong>Column 2, paragraph 1
\nOn line 12, remove \u2018peak-to-peak\u2019<\/strong> and on line 14, replace \u2018peak-to-peak\u2019 <\/strong>with \u2018amplitude\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fig 7.27<\/p>\n

Amend the Time scale to \u20180 to 500 microseconds\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Page 44, Digital Filtering
\n<\/strong>Column 3, paragraph 1<\/p>\n

On line 9, replace \u2018sensitive\u2019 <\/strong>with \u2018selective\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Page 54, Coaxial Cable
\n<\/strong>column 2, paragraph 1
\nDelete \u2018and the signal is carried only by the inner conductor\u2019<\/p>\n

Page 74, Effects of resistors in series
\n<\/strong>column 1, paragraph 3
\nAmend Picture A6.2 to read \u2018Picture A 6.1\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Page 74, Construction<\/strong>
\ncolumn 3, paragraph 2
\nAmend \u2018Picture 15.6\u2019 to read \u2018Picture A6.2\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2nd Edition by R. Bleaney M0RBK, G. Smart M1GEO and D. Mills G7UVW This is the latest book for those studying for their Intermediate Amateur radio licence. The Intermediate Licence Manual contains all of the information required for those seeking to upgrade their Foundation callsign. Designed to cover all elements of the Amateur Radio Intermediate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-extra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}