.TH HAMEXAM 1
.SH NAME hamexam \- Study guide for USA FCC amateur radio (ham radio) license examinations.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B hamexam [option]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B hamexam
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 diagrams. The diagrams for the selected question pool are displayed in a separate window using eog(1).

Licenses are issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), but examinations are administered by Volunteer Examiners.
.SH OPTIONS
If no pool is specified, usage, version, and help information is displayed.

In normal usage, one of the following options should be specified:
.IP
.B t
Element 2, the Technician Class pool. This is the entry-level license.

.B g
Element 3, the General Class pool (element 2 is also required).

.B e
Element 4, the Extra Class pool (elements 2 and 3 are also required).

.B q
The question pool is selected interactively.

.SH FILES
A directory ~/.hamexam is created to hold the names of the questions which remain to be answered correctly.

.SH SEE ALSO
For more information regarding licensing, ref. http://www.arrl.org/licensing-preparation-exams 

For information regarding the question pools, ref. http://www.ncvec.org/

.SH COPYRIGHT
.B hamexam
is Copyright (c) 2011-2012 John Nogatch <jnogatch@yahoo.com>.

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.

.SH BUGS
The question pools are normally good for 4 years, but are sometimes modified; ref. http://www.ncvec.org/ 

.B hamexam
does not automatically update the question pools from the VEC Web site.