Copasetic Flow

The twelve year old here is routinely passing practice exams for the United States amateur radio technician class license. Consequently, she and I started to work on updating our practice exam app to the latest general class question pool . We wrapped up the new deployment of the app earlier this afternoon, and I just wrote a python script to dump the question pool into a sqlite3 database. With the question pool all databased up, my next fun project was to study the questions in Simon Willison's datasette app . This allowed me to find out a few interesting things about the question pool right away. As an example, supposing you were to just go in to the test without studying and guess answers? Is there an answer you'd be better off leaning towards? A facet of the question pool based on the correct answer, (A, B, C, or D), indicates that no guessed answer is particularly better than any other: I suppose you'd get a tiny bias guessing either 'B' or 'C', bu...

The 12 year-old here, aka Daize in these pages, and I have been teaching ourselves Datasette, a Python based tool for exploring data sets. We came across the tool the first time as members of the San Francisco Microscopical Society when we attended a meeting about their historical papers database. Datasette , a tool created by Simon Willison is being used to serve their historical document database . It looked like a nice tool to know, but I didn't have an immediate use for it until last week when I got a little bit of bandwidth to setup new help page links for the ham radio practice exam app . I rooted around in the Google App Engine dataset pages a bit, then I played with making pages as templates in the Django based app, (did I mention that Simon was also one of the creators of Django?), and then it occurred to me that Datasette might be the most useful way of inspecting and modifying the help page links. In any event, the kid and I would be learning something new. The short ve...

Go take a practice test now using the links below! Technician General Extra Read the review of the Copasetic Flow Ham Radio Practice Tests at kb6nu.com The next time you practice a ham radio licensing exam here, you'll notice that the interface has changed a little bit to add a few new features. Focused Practice on Subelements Taking practice exams that simulate the randomly selected exams used for license tests is one of the best ways to study. But, sometimes, there's just one section of the test that is giving you the most trouble. Now, when you click the 'Practice Subelements' button, a control panel will appear that allows you to restrict your study to a single test subelement. When you click on the button for a subelement you will only be presented questions from that subelement. The button for the subelement you've selected will be highlighted with a different colored background. After you've studied the subelements you wanted to focus on, just click ...

Go take a practice test now using the links below! Technician General Extra Now, when you practice for your amateur radio, (ham), exams you can track your progress and find out which test subelements you need to spend the most time on. Just create a user name using the login box: The user name is used to track your test scores. After you have practiced a test, you should see results similar to those shown below. The first chart shows all of your test scores. The second chart shows how you're doing on each test subelement. Use the second chart and the table below to determine which subelements to spend your time studying. Coming soon: practice tests focused on specific subelements. 73 and have fun! KD0FNR

The amateur radio license exam practice applications on this site offer two features. First, they provide practice exams randomly constructed from the actual examination question pools. Second, as each exam question is displayed, study materials related to the question are displayed as well. The practice exams can be found at: Technician Class Exam General Class Exam Extra Class Exam Exam Practice Instructions The exam practice screen is shown above. A question is presented along with four multiple choice answers. A correct answer will be highlighted in green. If the wrong answer is selected, it will be highlighted in red. Additional answers can be selected to determine the correct answer, but only the first selected answer will count in the test score. If exam question requires a figure, it will be shown below the multiple choice answers. Study Material Instructions As each question is displayed, related study material may be displayed in the 'Available Study Material secti...