NAME hamexam - Study guide for USA FCC amateur radio (ham radio) license examinations.

SYNOPSIS

       hamexam {t,g,e,q}

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  terminated  with  end-of-file  (^D),  and
       restarted 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
       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 (for examinations administered July 1,  2022  through  June
              30, 2024). This is the entry-level license.

              g  Element  3, the General Class pool (for examinations administered July 1, 2023 through June 30,
              2027). Element 2 is also required.

              e Element 4, the Extra Class pool (for examinations administered July 1,  2020  through  June  30,
              2024). 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.
        https://www.arrl.org/licensing-education-training

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

COPYRIGHT

       hamexam is Copyright (c) 2011-2023 John Nogatch AC6SL <jnogatch@gmail.com>.

       hamexam version 1.10.0

       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  each,  but   are   sometimes   modified;   ref.
       http://www.ncvec.org/

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

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