Amateur radio testing
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[edit] Study guides and online practice quizzes
Use these study guides, information sources, and practice tests to learn and pass the Amateur Radio licensing tests. Note that the new technician test starts July 1, 2006, so make sure you are studying a guide for the new test! I have not updated my quiz data yet.
- practice exams
- Local study references (still being written)
- Amateur radio glossary
- T2006 Technician question pool study guide (still need to write this)
- G2007 General question pool study guide
- E2002 Extra question pool study guide
- Radio Equations collection of useful equations
- question pool
- FCC part 97 rules (almost all the answers are here!)
- Other external tutorials
- W5YI tutorials & stuff
- Tutorials at hamquick.com
- books
- http://www.bloomfield-family.org/HamClasses/Ham_index.htm (power point slides?)
[edit] Other related FCC parts
| Part 15 | unlicensed low power and acceptable noise levels, intentional and unintentional radiators |
| Part 80 | Marine / Maritime |
| Part 87 | Aviation services / Aircraft band radios |
| Part 95 | Personal Radio services, FRS, GRMS, CB, LPRS, Medical MICS and WMTS, R/C, IVDS |
| Part 97 | Amateur Radio |
http://hamradio.arc.nasa.gov/FCCpartstitles.html
[edit] local tests
These locations in and near Orange and Seminole counties give Amateur Radio tests for licensing and license upgrades.
- Central Florida Amateur Radio Exams
- LMARS testing sessions
- AES (on saturdays?)
[edit] Books
If you'd rather not study from online material, the following books might be useful, and should be at most libraries.
- ARRL Catalog: Help for Beginners
- This is a list of books ARRL recommends. You can purchase most of these from any book seller, or directly from ARRL. Many can be found in libraries as well, but make sure they are newer editions that refer to the 2006 Technician exam if they are specific.
- The ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications 2008 ISBN 0-87259-101-8; 2007 ISBN 0872599760 (ARRL)
- (Any edition is OK.) This is a fairly comprehensive book of math, basic practical electronics, and amateur radio. The science behind many of the test questions can be found here.
- Arrl Ham Radio License Manual ISBN 0872599639
- All You Need to Become an Amateur Radio Operator (Arrl Ham Radio License Manual) (Paperback)
- Now Your Talking ISBN 0872598810
- This is an out of print obsolete study guide for the previous retired Technician question pool. It's still a good book, and there is a lot of overlap with the current question pool, but should not be used as your sole study guide as you will miss newer questions and questions with changed answers.
- The ARRL Operating Manual ISBN 0872599132 (ARRL)
- Technician Class by Gordon West; ISBN 0945053452
- Ham Radio for Dummies ISBN 0764559877
- This book is a good non-technical introduction to amateur radio, but it is only an overview, and not comprehensive enough to help you pass the exam without also studying other references.
