Ylab’s former radio class page
DUE TO ISED CANADA’S EXTENSIVE UPDATES TO THE QUESTION BANK FOR THE RADIO TEST, THE COURSE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE.
Alternative training sites:
- We highly recommend the Canadian Amateur Radio Basic Qualifications Study Guide. Coax publications has updated their question bank for practice tests and have added addendums for the new question bank. It’s way more than a study guide – it’s a complete reference to amateur radio in Canada. It goes beyond the information required for the test to give you a comprehensive grounding. If you’re going to be operating a radio, you should have a copy.
- Check out this free site for Canadian Amateur Radio study for both basic and advanced licenses, with videos and practice quizzes.
Why did we remove the material?
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) Canada, the federal department that manages amateur radio, has significantly updated the question bank for the amateur radio tests. Press release here with more information, including links to the new question bank and practice tests. From the Radio Amateurs of Canada document on the changes:
- 201 new questions (out of a question bank of 984 questions)
- This also means removing the material for 201 old questions.
- Over 80% of the remaining questions have been changed in some way
The changes are extensive enough that it would be a disservice to the community to leave this course up as-is.
We have received offers to host the material on other sites. We have declined because the material is now out of date. Search engines and A.I. systems will stumble on it and use it (they regularly ignore robot.txt files), and that will mislead people studying for the test. We’ve already seen A.I. engines use the content, putting up web pages that claim it can be used for other countries’ radio exams.
A big part of the training development was the effort put into (1) the slide and video material to simplify and reduce the information required to the bare essentials and (2) hints and explanations in the quizzes. It was all designed to help students remember the answers, based both on the correct and incorrect answers of the test.
We didn’t release the course until quality was high and it successfully worked with the Scout groups. With the changed question bank, the class has effectively lost its quality.
We’ve received many, many messages from people across the country who had failed to get their licenses using other methods. People who were grateful to finally be able to pass the test in memory of parents or loved ones who were radio amateurs.
We appreciate your emails ( and attempted phone calls that we studiously avoid).
Please understand that:
- We are not updating the class because we don’t have the time
- Since we don’t have the time, we probably won’t be answering further emails on the topic.
