The UK Amateur Radio Training Site, from Essex Ham
We’ve been asked on a few occasions for advice on how to use our HamTrain Foundation training material to help prepare Scout, Guide or Cadet groups for the UK Foundation amateur radio exam. Here are a few ways that we can help. Material for local training: The better way of training a group is commonly…
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The RSGB has released exam stats for 2024. Here is a summary for those interested in looking at recent trends in UK amateur radio exams: Exam Passes: A good increase in passes in 2024: Foundation exam passes in 2024: 1898 (1282 in 2023) Intermediate exam passes in 2024: 401 (361 in 2023) Full exam passes…
The RSGB has introduced a new process for reporting flawed exam questions, and the new process excludes tutors from raising challenges on behalf of their students. Reactions from social media: A great idea, very poorly executed. Why would they block those best placed to find errors from reporting them? Ridiculous! Probably hoping that a new…
A warning to students using mock tests from the RadioTutor website. This follows numerous reports from people relying on mocks from this site. What the’s problem? Until 2018, a website called Hamtests offered excellent mock tests. When they closed down, their made their question database available for others to use, and the website Radio Tutor…
If you’re a student taking an amateur radio exam with the RSGB, remember that it pays to prepare and take some mocks. All the prep in world can’t prepare you for curveball questions, which is why we now include “Students Beware” as a part of our Foundation Online course. RSGB has released a small number…
This guidance is for those still studying on one of our online courses numbered BEFORE Course 168, on Fast Track F-09 or on On-Demand-01 The following was emailed to students on 20 August 2024: If you’re still studying on one of the above courses, you will likely know that from 1st of September 2024, the…
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HamTrain is today updating its alert for students and tutors. (12 Aug 2024) Studying for an exam? Training students for an exam? Please be aware that there are currently a number of issues with the transition to the new exam that may affect you: Background Ofcom changed the licence conditions in February 2024, but RSGB…
Announcing the latest study aid from Essex Ham – the HamTrain Foundation Study Guide. This is something of an experiment based on comments raised in our end-of-course surveys… the desire to have some kind of searchable electronic reference material to help study for Foundation “on the go”. To give it a try, we’ve compressed the…
This page is intended for students studying for a UK amateur radio licence before September 2024. In February 2024, we saw some changes to the amateur radio licence, which will affect amateur radio exam questions. Here is what you need to know. What’s happening? Ofcom has recently allowed some exciting changes to the licence to…
The RSGB has announced that the amateur radio exam fees will increase from May 2024. This follows a sizable increase in 2023 In a statement released by the RSGB on the 1st of February 2024: “The RSGB is being affected by higher-than-inflation increases across the exam processes. The Society is not passing this total increase…
