Pass the ham exam.
Get on the air.
A free, open-source study platform for the US amateur radio license exams. Practice against the real FCC question pools, with plain-English lessons for Technician. Three moves, no tricks, no paywall.
Three Steps.
That's IT.
Learn why, not just what
Every study app ships the same public-domain FCC questions. What they don't ship is the why — why 50-ohm coax terminates the way it does, why 2:1 SWR is still fine on most rigs, why 20 meters peaks two hours after sunrise.
So we're writing that part. Technician lessons are up now, in plain English, written by hams who've sat the exam. They aren't finished and they aren't perfect — General and Extra are still to come. But where a lesson exists, you'll understand why the FCC wrote the question that way instead of memorizing a letter.
- Technician
- 10 units
- General
- In progress
- Amateur Extra
- Planned
- Status
- Work in progress
Sit the real exam
Not a quiz. Not a spaced-repetition feed. A full-length mock drawn from the exact NCVEC pool the Volunteer Examiner team will hand you in a few weeks. Timed, scored, locked like the real thing.
The readiness score that comes out the other side is the only number that matters. Under 70%, keep reading. 74–84%, drill your weak areas. 85% and up, show up to a session.
- Exam length
- 35 or 50 Q
- Timer
- Optional
- Subelement scoring
- Yes
- Retakes
- Unlimited
Work your weak signal
Every question you miss drops into your weak list, along with anything you flagged. The system builds a drill session from just those questions — shuffled, looped — and you answer them until you've got five correct in a row on each.
It's boring. It works. It's how every ham we know actually passed. By exam day, the questions that scared you are the ones you're most confident on.
- Queue refresh
- Each exam
- Per-question streak
- Visible
- Cross-device sync
- Yes
- Reset queue
- Any time
Entry level to
the mountaintop.
Technician
Hit repeaters across your county, chase SOTA activations on two meters. The fastest way into the hobby — most pass in two to three weeks.
- Pool
- 411 Q
- Exam
- 35 Q
- Pass
- 74%
General
HF opens up. Work the world on 20 meters at sunrise, chase DX, run a net. Most Techs upgrade within a year — we meet you there.
- Pool
- 456 Q
- Exam
- 35 Q
- Pass
- 74%
Amateur Extra
The full frequency plan, exclusive CW and SSB windows, volunteer examiner eligibility. The top of the ticket — earned, not given.
- Pool
- 622 Q
- Exam
- 50 Q
- Pass
- 74%