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    Aug 01, 2020 2 minutes

    Anchorage VEC Goes to All-Electronic Testing

    Over the past few months, we’ve been reporting on a variety of innovations in administering amateur radio licensing exams in a time of lockdowns and social distancing. Here’s the next step …

    The folks who conducted the first volunteer-administered FCC amateur license exams 36 years ago, all exams conducted by the Anchorage Amateur Radio Club VEC (Volunteer Examiner Coordinator) have been using a web-based platform for both the tests themselves and the documents normally filled out on paper by both candidates and examiners.

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