NAME hamexam - Study guide for USA FCC amateur radio (ham radio)
license examinations.¶
SYNOPSIS¶
hamexam [option]
DESCRIPTION¶
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.
OPTIONS¶
If no pool is specified, usage, version, and help information is displayed.
In normal usage, one of the following options should be specified:
- t Element 2, the Technician Class pool. This is the
entry-level license.
g Element 3, the General Class pool (element 2 is also required).
e Element 4, the Extra Class pool (elements 2 and 3 are also
required).
q The question pool is selected interactively.
FILES¶
A directory ~/.hamexam is created to hold the names of the questions which
remain to be answered correctly.
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/
COPYRIGHT¶
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.
BUGS¶
The question pools are normally good for 4 years, but are sometimes modified;
ref.
http://www.ncvec.org/
hamexam does not automatically update the question pools from the VEC Web
site.
