[BCVHFA] Fwd: ARLB069 New General Class Question Pool Released

Fri, 05 Dec 2003 07:48:55 -0500

>Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 15:27:00 -0500
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>Subject: ARLB069 New General Class Question Pool Released
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>ARLB069 New General Class Question Pool Released
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>ARRL Bulletin 69  ARLB069
> From ARRL Headquarters
>Newington CT  December 4, 2003
>To all radio amateurs
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>SB QST ARL ARLB069
>ARLB069 New General Class Question Pool Released
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>The Question Pool Committee (QPC) of the National Conference of
>Volunteer Examiner Coordinators has released a revised and expanded
>Amateur Radio General class (Element 3) question pool into the
>public domain. The new question pool becomes effective July 1, 2004,
>and must be used to generate all General written examinations
>administered on or after that date.
>
>"The pool has been expanded to 432 questions," said ARRL VEC Manager
>Bart Jahnke, W9JJ, a member of the Question Pool Committee, who
>notes that all subelements grew slightly. "The largest increase in
>questions this time around was in our Operating Procedures and
>Amateur Radio Practices subelements," he said. The General class
>question pool does not contain any diagrams or symbols.
>
>The new Element 3 question pool is available on the ARRL Amateur
>Exam Question Pools Web page at
>http://www.arrl.org/arrlvec/pools.html in Adobe PDF and ASCII text
>format. It includes all questions and answers relating to Element 3.
>
>The Question Pool Committee now is turning its attention to
>developing an outline for an updated Amateur Extra class (Element 4)
>question pool, which will be revised over the next 24 months, Jahnke
>said. It will go into effect July 1, 2006. The deadline to submit
>input to the Amateur Extra question pool syllabus is May 1, 2004.
>
>Commenters may address specific Element 3 questions as well as
>inputs to the Element 3 syllabus and question pool to the Question
>Pool Committee via e-mail at, [email protected].
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