General Topic Study

Study the General amateur radio license exam one subelement at a time. Choose the subelements to practice and see your accuracy in each.

What's on the Exam

1. Commission’s rules: General class control operator frequency privileges; Antenna structure limitations; Transmitter power regulations; Volunteer Examiners and Volunteer Examiner Coordinators; Control categories.
2. Operating procedures: Phone operating procedures; Operating effectively; CW operating procedures and procedural signals; Volunteer Monitor Program; Digital mode operating procedures.
3. Radio wave propagation: Sunspots and solar radiation; Maximum Usable Frequency; Ionospheric regions.
4. Amateur radio practices: Station configuration and operation; Tests and test equipment; Interference to consumer electronics; Speech processors; Mobile and portable HF stations.
5. Electrical principles: Reactance; The decibel; Resistors, capacitors, and inductors in series and parallel.
6. Circuit components: Resistors; Analog and digital integrated circuits (ICs).
7. Practical circuits: Power supplies; Digital circuits; Transceiver design.
8. Signals and emissions: Carriers and modulation; Frequency changing; Digital emission modes.
9. Antennas and feed lines: Feed lines; Basic dipole and monopole antennas; Directional antennas; Specialized antenna types and applications.
10. Electrical and RF safety: RF safety principles, rules, and guidelines; Station safety.

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