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Hi, I'm Kurt for Expert Village. We're continuing now with some how to study for your ham test.
What we do is I have a short little blurb on the internet actually showing you the direct
way to set up and actually take some sample questions to prepare yourself for the ham
radio test. So with no further adieu--right to the demo. As you see here, I'm just using
Google, and I typed in 'Sample Ham Test.' And we'll just see what comes up here at this
point. And. And it just comes up. I've selected this one here, this one, this AA9PC is an
amateur radio operator and has some practice pages. What I've selected go over here and
select resources, and this gives us kind of an overview as to what the pages are. Now,
it looks like they've changed a little bit, they've changed a few pieces in here from
the Technician, so they've expanded that operating procedure just a little. But this gives you
a quick overview as to the questions. Now, you can click on this one here, but I'm going
to--yeah, and this actually takes you to the actual question pool that is used through
June 30th, 2007, of course, which is a little dated. But, they have particular types of
elements that are used, a question pool that was decided back years ago, and so it's on
the basis of these questions that you would be taking the test. As you can see, one, they
are all multiple choice, two, they are taken from different elements of the ham radio code--and
you will have to study these and know these in order to pass them. These are not saying
that these tests are they are just sample. They are not saying that these are the exact
questions that you would have on the test, but they will give you the general principles
of that which you will need to take an exam. If you feel that you want to try to take a
sample exam, you could select one of these here and then click down to "take an exam"
to just question your authoritative knowledge as to what you may or may not know in these
particular elements, for say, the Technician, the General Class right here, or the Extra
Class right there. I'm just going to select General again, bring up "take exam" and this
gives you questions that are used in this sample exam to give you a good overview as
to what you might encounter when you actually take the test for real. A Volunteer Examiner
actually administers the test, and you would then fill out a form and pay a basic fee.
Some charge ten dollars, when I became a ham it was five dollars--of course everything
goes up. So, this is basically the way you would take a test, and we appreciate your
time here. In our next session we will actually get into the meat and potatoes of what makes
up an amateur radio station.