Author Archives: Marcel Stieber

A Year in Review

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 … Continue reading

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Why should I use HamStudy’s Study Mode and not just take practice exams?

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 … Continue reading

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Field Day is this weekend! Time for an upgrade?

Did you know that over 16 volunteer examiner teams are running sessions at the annual ARRL Field Day this weekend using ExamTools? If you’ve been studying using the HamStudy app and are ready to go, then it’s a great time … Continue reading

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A Year of Remote Exams

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, … Continue reading

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