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Ham radio Technician license practice test

Here are 20 free questions in the style of the Technician exam, FCC Element 2. The real exam has 35, all drawn from the public NCVEC pool, and you need 26 right, so aim for 15 out of 20 here. This ham radio technician license practice test is our own, written from the 2026‑2030 Technician syllabus and Part 97 rather than copied from the pool, and it leans toward the rules. You’ll see why each answer is right, and you can ask the tutor if it doesn’t click.

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Updated October 2026 · Written from official sources, listed at the bottom of this page

Question 1 of 20

Which of these is one of the purposes of the amateur radio service, as the FCC rules set them out?

20 practice questions in the style of the exam.

Where can you take a ham radio technician license practice test with the real pool questions?

Since every exam question is published, the best practice after ours is the pool itself. ARRL’s Exam Review builds random practice exams from the pools in use, with short explanations. ARRL says it’s free and you don’t need to be a member.

HamStudy.org has the 2026‑2030 Technician pool with a study mode that tracks what you’ve seen, and says its website is free. You can also read the pool straight from NCVEC’s Word or PDF file.

ARRL: Exam Practice ↗HamStudy.org ↗NCVEC: Amateur Question Pools ↗

How the real Technician questions are spread

The syllabus gives each subelement a fixed number of the 35 questions. Ours follow the rules side more closely than the electronics side.

SubelementOn the examOur 20
T1 FCC rules69
T2 Operating procedures33
T3 Radio wave propagation31
T4 Amateur radio practices23
T5 Electrical principles41
T6 Components40
T7 Practical circuits41
T8 Signals and emissions41
T9 Antennas and feed lines20
T0 Safety31

Our set skips components and antennas, and has only one question each on electrical principles and circuits. Those are 14 of the real 35, so practice them in the pool before you book.

What the Technician exam covers →More study options, books and classes →
Sources: NCVEC · eCFR · ARRL and 1 more. Checked October 2026.

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