SCARS will offer a one-day Technician Study Session at the Norman Public Library – Central location, 103 West Acres St, Norman, Oklahoma 73069 on Saturday, April 1, 2023. You will work at your own pace on a guided self-study of the amateur radio technician test questions. You will need a study guide containing all technician questions and correct answers. If you already have one of these, you are welcome to use it. The club has copies of this guide for $5 before the session. When you register, you will receive information on how to obtain a study guide. Sign up for the class at https://w5nor.org/classsignup/.
SCARS offers a Technician licensing class with the online videos available at this link.
FCC CORES: https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/coresWeb/publicHome.do This is where you need to create an “FRN,” or FCC Registration Number. Please note that if you already have an FCC license (i.e. one in the General Mobile Radio Service), you probably already have an FRN.
Try any of these sites:
The first two sites will track your progress and drill you harder on questions you miss. Presumably, some of the others do the same. Undoubtedly, these sites have improved over time, but ten or so years ago, when they first appeared, many were not sufficiently random. In other words, they might show you more questions than others regardless of your progress. In some cases, candidates would never see a few of the questions. The bottom line – use this as a supplement to study!
The Question and Answer Pools are in the public domain, per FCC regulation, but these provide no background material to help future hams understand the answers.
The exam is a 35-question, multiple-choice exam. Questions are drawn from a pool of about 400 questions. The subject breakdown is covered in the next table.
Sub Element | Subject | Number of Questions on Exam (Total 35) |
---|---|---|
T1 | FCC Rules | 5 |
T2 | Methods of Communication | 2 |
T3 | Radio Phenomena | 2 |
T4 | Station Licensee Duties | 3 |
T5 | Control Operator Duties | 3 |
T6 | Good Operating Practices | 3 |
T7 | Basic Communications Electronics | 3 |
T8 | Good Engineering Practice | 6 |
T9 | Special Operations | 2 |
T0 | Electrical, Antenna Structure, and RF Safety Practices | 6 |
Successful candidates should be familiar with the following:
Magic Circles – put your finger over the quantity you are trying to solve.
Ohm’s Law:
Power Law:
And yes, you can combine those two algebraically, but it ceases to be much of an aide-mémoire at that point:
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