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Minimum age 16
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
VHF RADIO COURSE CANCELLATION POLICY
If you cancel more than 2 weeks prior to the 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.
