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Course duration:

one evening and one full day

Course content:

Rules and regulations

communication procedure

practical radio adjustment and working

Battery maintenance

practical voice communications

phonetic alphabet, procedure words

Distress working

Urgency and Safety working

Routine communications

EPIRBs

SARTs

NAVTEX

DSC Distress Alerts

DSC Urgency, Safety and Routine anouncerments

Practical DSC operation.

Exams:

Written examination: 50 minutes

Oral examination: 12-15 minutes for each candidate.

Examiner: Dept. of Transport appointed SRC examiner

Cancellation policy:

          If you cancel more than 2 weeks prior to

           course start date 50% of the course fee is refundable;

If you cancel within 2 weeks or less of the course

start date or if you do not not turn up for all or part

of the course or for the exam there will be no refund of the course fee.

Non-attendance or leaving course early.

The entire fee tendered is forfeited.

                    

           

RADIO OPERATOR’S SHORT RANGE CERTIFICATE OF COMPETENCY

VHF RADIO

                                                   No SRC………

AUTHORITY TO OPERATE GRANTED BY THE MINISTER FOR TRANSPORT, TOURISM AND SPORT

The holder of this certificate is authorised to perform the duties appropriate to the holder of a Radio Operator’s Short Range Certificate of Competency on a ship in which a radio station has been established under a licence issued by the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport.

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For the Minister for Transport, Tourism  and Sport

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Date

The authority shall remain valid until further notice.

the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport may  suspend this Authority to Operate with a view to revocation thereof, if it appears to the Minister that there are sufficient grounds to do so.