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Welcome to Hamtest v1.1!
Hamtest was originally written to help me in studying for the Technician Class
exam. After I passed the exam (and began my weeks of waiting for my ticket)
I decided that I should let others benefit from my program. So I started to
cleaned up the program and added some features that others might find useful.
I had intentions of adding the General Class exam questions to the program,
but didn't finally get around to it until Dan Kolton of Bellevue, Washington
send me a letter requesting I do so. Thus we now have HamTest v1.1. Thanks
Dan for giving me that little push I needed. Now maybe I can start studying
for the General Class myself!!!
You will notice in the program that when you answer a question wrong it will
give you the reference to the FCC Rules and Regulations Part 97, if there is
any. The page references refer to the book "Now You're Talking" published by
the ARRL and available in any Ham Radio Store or Radio Shack. This is the
book I used in studying for the exam.
There is no charge for using Hamtest. Feel free to pass the program on to
others, but when doing so please include ALL the files that came with the
program.
If you have any comments or suggestions about Hamtest or just want to say
'Thanks', send me a postcard or drop me some Email. I can be reached at...
Internet Address: phun!jeff.singleton@phunnet.org
U.S. Snail: Jeff Singleton
P.O. Box 11
Sunland, CA 91041-0011
Program Notes...
Pressing ESC while at a menu will take you back one menu level. If you
are at the Main Menu pressing ESC will exit the program.
Pressing a key that corresponds to the first letter/number of a menu choice
will move the highlight bar to that menu choice. Press Enter to select
that item.
While going though the questions there will be a right and wrong buzzer.
To turn the buzzer OFF and ON hit S when being prompted for an answer.
Pressing ESCape while viewing questions will have the same effect as
hitting the Q key.
Main Menu:
From the main menu you can choose to work with the Novice or Technician
exam questions or Quit the program.
Second Menu:
ALL SUBELEMENTS
This menu choice will allow you to go through ALL the questions
for the subelement you choose. If you decide to exit before you finish
cycling through all the questions you will be prompted to set a 'marker'
to save your place. When setting a marker the program will promptly
terminate. The next time you start Hamtest you will be taken back to
the place you set a marker. If no marker is set, you will be taken back
to the Main Menu.
INDIVIDUAL SUBELEMENT
This menu choice will allow you to pick a particular subelement that
you want to test yourself on. You will be presented with the subelement
choices. When you exit this part of the program you will be taken back
to the Main Menu.
PRACTICE EXAM
This menu choice will randomly pick questions from the question pools
to simulate a real exam.
CRAM SCAN MODE
This is a feature that should be of help just before a test. It allows
you to cycle through ALL the questions in a question pool while
highlighting the correct answer for you.
MAIN MENU
This one is pretty much self explanatory. eh?
Third menu:
The third menu will appear when you select the Individual Subelements
choice from the second menu. Here you can choose which subelement you
wish to review. Pressing ESC or selecting Cancel will exit you back to
the second menu.
Status Bar:
While view the questions and being prompted for an answer you will notice
a status bar at the top of the screen. This bar, from left to right,
tells you which question number you are viewing, which question pool you
are in (Novice or Technician), the current question number and total
number of questions and the percentage of questions you have answered
correct.
A couple more things!...
Some questions reference figure drawings in order to be answered.
Hamtest does not support the displaying of these figures. However, I
have included the figures in .TIF file format. If you cannot make use
of the .TIF format you will also find these figures in the book
mentioned earlier, "Now You're Talking!" published by the ARRL.
Some questions in the question pools have been withdrawn from testing.
The few I know about have been marked as such, but are still displayed
for completeness.
Enjoy!
History:
09/17/94 - Inital program was released as HamTest v1.0
11/19/94 - HamTest v1.1 released.
Fixed a small bug with Cram Scan Mode and added the
General Class Exam Questions.