How I studied for my Ham radio general exam
I scraped a pass on my Ham radio general exam today, on the second attempt (you can retake on the same day for an extra $15, thankfully).
In the USA Ham amateur radio licenses are issued based on multiple choice exams. There are three classes of license: technician, general and amateur extra - which govern what frequency bands you are allowed to use, among other things.
Each of the three exams has a fixed pool of questions. These are published as Word documents in various places, and updated every few years. I used a document from the ARRL.
I partly built my own. I extracted the text from the General question pool word document into a text file, then wrote some JavaScript in an Observable notebook to convert that into JSON. I shared my JSON of the 429 questions here:
https://lite.datasette.io/?json=https://github.com/simonw/ham-general-question-pool/blob/main/ham-general-july-2023-to-june-2027.json#/data/ham-general-july-2023-to-june-2027
