Steve Horan has been licensed since 1996 and holds amateur radio license AC5RI.  He is the faculty advisor for W5GB on the NMSU campus.

Instruction Manuals

To assist new hams in obtaining their Technician license, or for existing hams to upgrade, we have developed a set of instruction manuals for use with the local training classes.  Notice: for some reason, it usually works better if you save the manual to your hard disk first rather than trying to open it in your browser.  For Windows users, right click on the desired manual with your mouse.  You should get a pop-up menu where one of the options will be to save the "target" to your hard drive.  Use that option.

Every effort is made to have these manuals as technically correct and clear as possible.  Please contact me if you find any problems or errors.

• Technician Q&A --  (2006 question pool) [1.7 MB/15 November 2007]
• General Question Pool (2007 question pool) [1.7 MB/December 2007]
• A "professional version" of the The 2002 Extra Manuals are now offered by ARRL
• Draft 2008 Extra Question Pool [1.1 MB/January 2008]

Radio Classes

The Mesilla Valley Radio Club will have amateur radio license classes in the next few months on the following dates:

• Technician Class: TBA
• Morse Code Class: TBA
• General Class: TBA
• Extra Class: TBA

Registration can be done using this form:  click here

The class instructor team is as follows:

• Technician Class: Lead Instructor -

Topic	Session	Instructor/Leader
Radio Wave Propagation	Friday Night
Emissions	Friday Night
Radio Operations	Saturday Morning
Electrical Principles	Saturday Morning
Practical Electronics	Saturday Morning
Antennas and Feed Lines	Saturday Afternoon
Amateur Radio Practices	Saturday Afternoon
Practice Exam	Saturday Afternoon
RF Radiation Safety	Sunday Morning
FCC Regulations	Sunday Morning
Frequency & Power Limits	Sunday Morning
Open Review	Sunday Morning
Exams	Sunday Afternoon

• General Class: Lead Instructor -

• Extra Class: Lead Instructor -

Smith Chart Tutorials

Dr. Russell Jedlicka of the Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Mexico State University has given us a copy of his class notes on how to use Smith Charts. 

Use the "save target" option on the Web browser to download these files.  The tutorial with the charts in place is in the file here.  The tutorial with the Smith Charts removed is obtainable here.  The Smith Chart as a stand-alone graphic is obtainable here.