Four Buchanan Students Earn FCC License

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Buchanan Community Schools announced that four students in their Career and Technical Education (CTE) Electrical program earned their FCC Amateur Radio licenses on Monday.

The four passing students, Marley Hinds, Taryn Hartman, Kyle Kirk, and Sheldon Cornelius, are now authorised to use advanced wireless communications technology.

CTE students sat for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Technician Class Amateur Radio license exam, which asked students to display knowledge in electrical theory, wireless communications, radio infrastructure, and electrical safety.

Buchanan Community Schools also noted that students who did not pass the exam will have an opportunity to retest later in the school year.

World Wide Check-In on Talk Group 91

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Join the World Wide Check-In every Saturday at 16:00 UTC on Talk Group 91 via the Brandmeister Network. Started in 2015 by Dick K6SUU, the net has grown with volunteer Net Controllers ensuring smooth operations. Check in securely with a robust logging system. View log archives, upcoming nets, and schedule. Interested in becoming a Net Controller? Contact the admin team. Licensed Radio Operators can participate, while others can listen live on TG 91. Stay connected and join the global ham radio community with World Wide Check-In.

More Information - https://wiki.brandmeister.network/index.php/TalkGroup/91

New Technician Class Question Pool Released

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The National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC) Question Pool Committee (QPC) released the revised 2026-2030 Technician Class (Element 2) question pool. It will be required for all exam sessions beginning 1st July 2026. The new pool includes 409 questions (27 new, 30 removed, and about 155 modified), compared to 412 in the prior pool. The pool also includes three diagrams used for some of the questions.

This updated question pool incorporates significant changes compared to the prior pool. The questions were checked for technical accuracy and relevance to current amateur radio practices, as well as for grammar, syntax, format, clarity, and for redundancy within and between the pools.

VECs and Volunteer Examiners must use test designs based on the new pool starting on 1st July 2026. Current ARRL VEC Technician Class exam booklets (2022 series) and computer-generated Technician Class exams created from the 2022 question pool are valid until 30th June 2026. After that, old versions should be destroyed.

ARRL will have new editions of Technician Class study materials, including The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual, Gordon West Technician Class License Prep book, and ARRL’s Tech Q&A, by May 2026.

NCVEC - https://ncvec.org/

Dan Romanchik No-Nonsense Study Guides - https://www.kb6nu.com/study-guides/