Usually the practice exams pull questions right out of the current question pool. So to answer your question, yes. Just make sure which ever testing site you are using is getting the newest question pool.
Edit: I just checked
www.aa9pw.com and sure enough it says: "The questions used here are from the current official question pools provided by the FCC and are selected from the same subelements as would be used for an official examination."
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Hey Shane. I took my test and passed April 3rd and passed. I read the book and also used a disk for the PC that came with it that gives you practice tests. I took the tests over and over and over and over. Basically taking the sampletests till I never failed them. If i did fail one Id take it till I passed it every evening. The place I took the test even offered a chance tot ake the test a second time if you failed the quiz when you took it the same night.
If you will send me an envelope with paid postage Ill send ya the book and CD and you can mail it back to me when you pass your test.
i went without HAM till this season and I have been chasing since I was 16 and am 29 now. I always put it off and put it off but I am really glad and proud that I took the test and got the liscense. Of course you will then need to get a radio but you can usually find a radio for what you need at your local pawn shop or ebay pretty easy. If your jsut using it for chasing you dont need anything fancy. You will need a mobile and not a handheld tho. Handhelds dont reah repeaters as well and you are only using about 5 watts. Mobile can use about 50 watts max Again send me an envelope big enough to hold a book and a CD and ill loan ya them till ya pass the test. Its also fun to chat with other local chasers and spotters and the trips back and get other perspectives from other chsers in the field around you. If ya pring for a radio that uses APRS you can .Sfind chasers around you and plot their location on a map via GPS. There are a to of things you can dow tih HAM. Send text messages, smake autopatch phone calls, use it for remote control aircraft and cars and boats, use slow scan Televsion, Talk to the International Space Station if you wish and know your stuff and if ya really get into it with al the base antennas and etc Talk to folks thousands of miles away. You can even bounce signals off the Ionasphere and the moon. It can be a bit tedious as far as all the Electronics but I recommned taking it slow and jsut be repetitive with taking the example tests over and over and over and over.
Im not a HAM genious by any means but I think you will find it more interesiting that ya thought. You can go to tons of online websites to find local HAM test sin your areaa nd find others willing to help you in the hobby.
Its a shame more people arent Hams because in times of serious emegencies they can be your onlysource of getting and sending info in natural disasters. They re also good for emegencies other than natural disasters.
aNYWAYS ENOUGH RANT.
Send me an email if you are interested at
[email protected] and Ill send ya my address and you can send me an envelope for the book and CD. I can jsut mail it to you as well and you can by me a Coca-Cola Black if we met on the plaisn sometime. I think I actualy saw you on 4/24/06 near Guthrie OK. You were sitting on I-35 on the off ramp next to the Best Western. I was in the parking lot about 50 yards away in a while ford F-150 flareside 4x4 extended cab with an Amber light )which wasnt on and have the tall 67 inch ham antenna and a cell phone and scanner antenns and Boomarang TV antennna. i was using WXWORX.
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For thsoe who asked the exams are EXACTLY the same as the practice ones. The ony thing they might change is the order of the answers but thats it.
If Math isnt your subject id take a very basic calculator. IT SEEMS THEY LIKE TO ASK ABOUT THE CONVERSION QUESTION ON WHO LONG TO MAKE YOUR ANTENNA.
