SignalStuff has announced their 2023 Black Friday sale! Check out the details here! Begins Nov 24, 2023 and runs through Nov 28, 2023. Sales on SignalStuff.com directly support all HamStudy and ExamTools development. Thanks for your support ..read more

With 2022 in the books, we thought it’d be nice to see the impact that ExamTools has had on the overall amateur radio community. While the ExamTools software has been around for well over a decade, its usage picked up strongly during the pandemic in 2020 with optimizations that were made to support different exam formats and, importantly, digital paperwork and signatures. In the first year of the pandemic, ExamTools was used for roughly 20% of all amateur radio licenses granted by the FCC in that time frame (see earlier blog post from 2021). In 2022, ExamTools adoption continued to grow, with ..read more

SignalStuff is now running their “I can’t believe we missed Black Friday!” sale! Check out the details here! Begins Dec 2, 2022 and runs through Dec 6, 2022. Sales on SignalStuff.com directly support all HamStudy and ExamTools development. Thanks for your support ..read more

We get this question a lot. People often wonder why they can’t just take practice exams to learn the material. In theory, you can do this, but let’s take a look at the numbers! We ran 10,000 simulations of randomly-generated practice exams for each exam’s question pool, and then calculated the number of practice exams one would need to take to see every single question at least once. Note that is just to see every question, this doesn’t mean you’ve actually learned it. Here’s what we found: For the 2022 Technician Question Pool: Mean: 76.1073 exams Median: 71 exams Mode: 68 exams Max: 184 exa ..read more

For Black Friday this year we’re offering 25% off the regular price ($3.99 $2.99) for our app on both the Google and Apple app stores! This sale will start on Friday, November 26 2021 and run through Monday, November 29 2021. Over the last year HamStudy and ExamTools have come a long ways! Did you know that 30% of all ham radio examinations in the US went through ExamTools? HamStudy and ExamTools development are supported primarily by SignalStuff.com. SignalStuff will be holding a black friday sale over the same time period! Check out the details here ..read more

One year ago, on March 26th, 2020, the first-ever fully-remote amateur radio exam was held to demonstrate the capabilities of online exam methods (1). Just two months later, on May 26th, a new version of the ExamTools software was released, enabling dozens of Volunteer Examiner teams to come on board and expand both their online and in-person amateur radio exams. By the end of 2020, fully-remote amateur radio exams were the new norm, with teams throughout the US running exams every single day. In 2020 alone, over 10,000 exam elements have been administered through the ExamTools platform, which ..read more

2020 has been quite a ride for all of us, and we here at HamStudy/SignalStuff have had quite an interesting time as well. Though it’s come with a lot of hard times for a lot of people, a lot of good things have come this year. For Black Friday this year we’re offering 25% off the regular price ($3.99 $2.99) for our app on both the Google and Apple app stores! This sale will start on Friday, November 27 2020 and run through Monday, November 30 2020. Edit: We had some issues with setting up the sale on the Google Play store; it will still be happening, but will run from Nov 29, 2020 through Dec ..read more

Contributing Authors: Marcel Stieber AI6MS, Sterling Mann N0SSC, Nick Booth N1CCK, Lucky225 WA6VPS, Richard Bateman KD7BBC Note 4/23/2020: Thanks for the overwhelming response! A few points before we move onto the press release: Can my VE team get involved doing remote exams ? Absolutely! The primary ExamTools developer, Richard (KD7BBC), is working on software updates and does not have time to walk everyone through, so for now please join the Discord Chat Server and get help getting started there. Please don’t contact ExamTools support until you’re actually ready to get started. Note that you ..read more

Happy thanksgiving and good studies to all! This year the HamStudy.org mobile app will be on sale for $1.99 (50% off) on the iOS, Mac, and Android app stores from midnight GMT Nov 29, 2019 through midnight GMT Dec 2, 2019. Try it out today! Also our parent company Signal Stuff is having a 20% off sale on all Super-Elastic Signal Sticks. All sales support hamstudy.org, so check it out ..read more