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, 2018 through June
              30, 2022). This is the entry-level license.

              g Element 3, the General Class pool (for examinations administered July 1, 2019 through  June  30,
              2023). 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) 2011-2019 John Nogatch AC6SL <jnogatch@gmail.com>.

       hamexam version 1.7.0

       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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