Fw: [ham_instructor] New Radio Merit Badge PowerPoints Available

[Joe]

    FYI for those people in LARC contemplating working with the Boy Scouts 
this year...

Joe Pirkle - AD4IH


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Gary Wilson
To: ham_instructor at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 3:27 PM
Subject: [ham_instructor] New Radio Merit Badge PowerPoints Available


In August 2008, BSA issued a new Radio Merit Badge pamphlet in full
color. The requirements changed slightly in wording and dramatically
in order and numbering. The new requirements must be used by any
Scout starting the Merit Badge after January 1, 2009.

The order of the new requirements actually is more in line with the
structure of the 3 one hour class program originally created by KF5WT
and then refined by WW3Y and myself.

In September, I made a quick revision to the 3 sets of PowerPoint
slides and workbooks for these classes. I've now had a chance to see
how they perform during an actual Radio Merit Badge Day and tweaked
them further.

The revised slides say "2009" on the title slide. Previous versions
should be discarded. The revised PowerPoint Slides can be downloaded
from my website at

http://k2gw.tripod.com/radiomeritbadgeday/

or from the files section of the ScoutRadio Yahoo Group.

I'm holding off on updating the student workbooks for a while.
Workbooks for all merit badges are available on www.meritbadge.org
and many Scouts are already familiar with that site. Their workbook
based on the order of the current Radio MB requirements now matches
our classes and slides. It's available at

http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/1/10/Radio.pdf

I've suggested a few minor changes to the workbook to their author.
Once that's done, I'll let you know.

Thanks again for all your help in presenting Radio Merit Badge to
Scouts. Please let us know the date when your club plans to run this
year's Radio Merit Badge Day in your area.

73

Gary Wilson, K2GW




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