#OpenHamPrep

2026-01-10

RE: social.makerforums.info/@mcdan

This morning, I heard the first report of someone passing their US ham radio exam by using Open Ham Prep to study! 🎉

Brad added two huge new features over the past week!

A research-backed test readiness score helps you know with high confidence whether you are really ready to take the test

Merely knowing the answers to the questions doesn't prepare you to operate. Brad has added 57 (so far) topics that lead you through the background knowledge for the Technician level. The topics are intended to cover the knowledge required to understand the test questions. You can study the topics in any order if you want, but they have been arranged into 16 lessons that lead you through the topics. Regardless of whether you are following the lesson plan or reviewing topics you are weak in, each topic ends with a quiz that is each of the test questions that is relevant to the topic.

He also made several quality of life fixes and improvements. The glossary entries now link out to a DuckDuckGo search for the glossary term, so if you want to go beyond the glossary entry in the app, you can easily get to more information.

Are you already a licensed ham? Please help Elmer others!

#HamRadio #AmateurRadio #OpenHamPrep

Screenshot showing the first 6 of 16 lessons covering the US ham radio Technician class exam material, starting with "Welcome to Amateur Radio". Because I have passed all the quizzes associated with topic 2, "Your Identity on the Air", it is marked as completed. Two other topics are marked as partially complete because I have passed some but not all of the associated quizzes.Screenshot showing the first six of 57 topics, starting with "The Transceiver - Your Voice to the World". Because I've taken the quiz for the first topic, it is marked as "Completed"Screenshot showing the result of successfully answering all the questions in a quiz, and that you can always review questions for a topic by re-taking the quiz.Screenshot of dashboard, showing that answering only a few questions does not demonstrate that I'm ready to take the test, even though I answered all of those few 100% correctly.
Victoria (K8VSY) (she/her)k8vsy@mastodon.radio
2026-01-04

TIL about "Open Ham Prep"

"The modern study platform with smart features that actually help you learn—not just memorize. Plus a community of hams ready to help."

* Official Question Pools
* All 3 License Classes
* Open Source (software, not just the questions)

openhamprep.com/

#AmateurRadio #HamRadio #hamr #radio #OpenHamPrep #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #FreeAndOpendOpenSourceSoftware #OpenSourceSoftware #FreeAndLibreOpenSourceSoftware #OpenRadio #study #studying #software

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