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We’ve had the new pool technically up on the site for months, but since we didn’t have a link to it most of you couldn’t find it.  Well, we didn’t want to put it up until we had all the explanations from the old pool linked to the new and could see exactly what had changed.  That is done, and it’s now live!

The changes

As usual, most of the changes to the pool are just minor edits.  Here are some stats on the new pool:

• 47 questions have been removed
• 79 new questions have been added
• 29 questions have had significant (more than a couple of words) updates
• There are 32 more questions than in the previous pool for a total of 426 questions (the old pool had 394)
• 4 of the questions with figures in them have been removed, eliminating 3 of the 6 figures from the previous pool

For more details, check out the complete graphical diff!

What still needs to be done

As with any change, there are things that need to be done.  If you notice above, there are 79 new questions in this pool — that means those are questions we don’t have explanations for yet! If you find any of these, please fill them in — we’ll be posting a link to help you find them sometime soon, but first priority was making sure you can all still study!

We’re pleased to announce that we now have HamStudy.org t-shirts available for sale!

$15 with free shipping

Why get a HamStudy shirt?

Every HamStudy shirt you buy donates about $5 to the development of HamStudy.  More importantly, the more people wear HamStudy t-shirts (particularly to test sessions and other ham radio events), the more people will know about the awesomeness that is HamStudy!

For now we have a limited stock.  Order here

To support our friends to the north, we have added two new question pools to HamStudy!

• Canadian Basic
• Canadian Advanced

You might say that we don’t have a lot of experience with the Canada pools, but there they are =] Let us know if any of you have any issues with them.  Note that the basic has a passing score set at 70%, so if you’re aiming for the 80% mark you’ll need to pay attention to that yourself.

You asked for it, and it’s finally here! You can now use HamStudy without creating an account.  To do so, simply use the “login” button and click “Continue as Guest”.

What this means

When you log in as a guest your data is being saved but not in a way that is any way tied to you or your email address.  This is great for users who want to try out HamStudy without the hassle of creating an account or users who may not have easy access to an email account when they go to study.

Guest users cannot edit site content such as question explanations and your data will be lost if your browser cookies are deleted or you don’t use the site for more than a month.  Guest users also cannot share data across multiple computers or devices.

HamStudy.org works great on all desktop and mobile devices.

Click here to go to the site.