NAME fccexam - Study guide for USA FCC commercial radio license examinations.¶
SYNOPSIS¶
fccexam [option]
DESCRIPTION¶
fccexam presents questions in random order from the selected question
pool, and terminates when all questions have been answered correctly. The
session may be interrupted with ^C, and resumed later.
Some questions refer to figures. The figures for the selected question pool are
displayed in a separate window using $PNG_VIEWER, if it is executable. If
$PNG_VIEWER is undefined,
eog(1), gwenview(1),
gpicview(1),
ristretto(1), will
be used, whichever is first found to be an executable command. If $PNG_VIEWER
is not an executable command (e.g. ""), or if none of the other
viewers are installed, then questions which refer to figures will be noted and
skipped.
Licenses are issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), but
examinations are administered by COLEM examiners. See
http://wireless.fcc.gov/commoperators/index.htm?job=home for information
regarding USA commercial radio licenses.
OPTIONS¶
If no pool is specified, usage, version, and help information is displayed.
To initialize the question pool, one of the element numbers may be specified:
- 1 Element 1, Basic radio law and operating practice.
3 Element 3, General Radiotelephone; Electronic fundamentals and
techniques required to adjust, repair, and maintain radio transmitters and
receivers.
5 Element 5, Radiotelegraph operating procedures and practices.
6 Element 6, Advanced technical, legal, and other matters applicable
to the operation of all classes of radiotelegraph stations.
7 Element 7, GMDSS Radio Operating Practices.
7R Element 7R, Restricted GMDSS Radio Operating Practices.
8 Element 8, Ship Radar Techniques.
9 Element 9, GMDSS Radio Maintenance Practices and Procedures.
The following abbreviations may be used to select multiple elements:
T1 First Class Radiotelegraph: elements 1, 5, 6.
T2 Second Class Radiotelegraph: elements 1, 5, 6.
T3 Third Class Radiotelegraph: elements 1, 5.
GROL General Radiotelephone Operator License: elements 1, 3.
GROL+ General Radiotelephone Operator License + Radar: elements 1, 3,
8.
MROP Marine Radio Operator Permit: element 1.
GMDSS Global Maritime Distress Safety System Radio Operator: elements
1, 7.
GMDSS+ GMDSS Radio Maintainer + Radar: elements 1, 7, 8, 9.
RGMDSS Restricted GMDSS Radio Operator: elements 1, 7R.
q The question pool is selected interactively. This is needed when
starting the application from an icon.
FILES¶
A directory ~/.fccexam is created to hold the names of the questions which
remain to be answered correctly.
SEE ALSO¶
For more information regarding licensing, ref.
http://wireless.fcc.gov/commoperators/index.htm?job=home
For information regarding amateur radio licensing (ham radio), see the package
hamexam.
COPYRIGHT¶
fccexam is Copyright (c) 2012-2013 John Nogatch
<jnogatch@gmail.com>.
fccexam version 1.0.5, containing question pools as recent as
17-May-2013.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
BUGS¶
The question pools, and number of questions required, are sometimes modified;
ref.
http://wireless.fcc.gov/commoperators/index.htm?job=question_pools
Radiotelegraph Operator licenses also require Morse code proficiency elements,
which are not provided by fccexam.
fccexam does not automatically update the question pools from the FCC Web
site.