To qualify a anyone who uses the water, from the offshore power or sailing yachtsman to the canoeist or diver to legally  use a short range radio confidently and to enable them to use the radio for emergency situations

 

Introduces the student to:

How to use the radio - voice procedure

What it can and can not be used for

How radios work

Emergency procedures - Mayday, Pan Pan and Securite

Emergency electronic location devices - EPIRBs, PLBs and SARTs

Licencing and radio law. 

 

 

This is an interactive course that enables the student to study in their own time at their own pace using the RYA VHF Handbook (G31) and the online material. 

Once confident the student takes a multiple choice test online which on passing subsequently followed by a face to face practical test with one of our examiners. 

On successful; completion the student is then qualified for a  restricted user short range VHF certificate