UK Amateur Radio Training
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…
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…
On the 18th of December 2023, the RSGB kindly released a draft version of the next syllabus, v1.6, to allow tutors to review the likely changes. (Link to announcement and document). This page looks at the upcoming changes to the syllabus and how this affects students and tutors Why the syllabus update? The syllabus v1.6…
The 2023 Ofcom Consultation is likely to result in a change to the RSGB exam syllabus, with a knock-on effect on trainers, clubs and online courses. On the 7th of August 2023, the RSGB ran a live panel discussion where this topic was covered. To assist tutors, here is a summary of the points covered:…
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The RSGB has announced that the amateur radio exam fees will increase from April 2023. In a statement released by the RSGB on the 16th of December: “The RSGB Board has reviewed the amateur radio licence exam fees and has decided that there needs to be an increase from 1 April 2023. This is the…
Our annual trainer’s survey was released on 22nd August 2022. This is being conducted to assess the state of amateur radio training in the UK, with special emphasis on looking at ways to encourage and support clubs and amateur radio groups with their training. Who is the survey for? The Training Survey 2022 is open…
