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 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 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, 2014
              through June 30, 2018). This is the entry-level license.

              g Element 3, the General Class pool (for examinations  administered  July  1,  2015
              through June 30, 2019). Element 2 is also required.

              e  Element  4,  the  Extra  Class  pool (for examinations administered July 1, 2016
              through June 30, 2020). 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) 2011-2016 John Nogatch AC6SL <jnogatch@gmail.com>.

       hamexam version 1.4.0

       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,  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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