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In 2006, Bruce was unable to update his study guide, so he gave me permission to to do it. That version was the first issue of the No-Nonsense, Technician-Class Study Guide. In 2007, I produced the first No-Nonsense General Class Study Guide. In 2012, after much coaxing, I came out with the No-Nonsense Extra Class License Study Guide. All three study guides have been updated as time has gone on and are current with the latest question pools.

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Dan,

Thanks for all your hard work in making these 2 study guides. I just passed my Tech test a couple days ago. Not sure I could have done it without your guide. I decided to get into the Amateur radio hobby only a few days before.

Thank you very much for these two study guides. I found them when I was working on my tech and it made it very easy. I had no problems with either test after going through the study guide. I recommend both study guides to anyone wanting to take the test. So far, everyone that read through them passed without any problems. Great manuals!

I am Timothy J. Cregan, N2RDB, District Emergency Coordinator for Nassau County, NY ARES. I have been using your study guides to help get people ready to take their tests, with good results. Do you plan on re-writing the No-Nonsense Guide to reflect the changes in the new Technician Class question pool?

I recently retired & found myself with some time on my hands. A Google search revealed your study guide. I read through it once & took a practice test getting about 65%. I then went through the guide one chapter a week & practice tested again with a solid 70%. That led me to print it out and take notes as I read through it. A practice of 75% (several tests averaged over a week) let me know I was almost there.

Dan, I just wanted to say thanks for your wonderful study guide. A read through the guide (just once) was enough to put the questions into perspective so that I understood the questions relating to FCC rules and best practices. (I had a leg up on the electronics portion, but that too was well-written and concise!)

I just took my element 2 exam last night and passed it with flying colors. Even better: I understood the answers, I was giving, largely due to the format of your study guide and how easy it was to look up additional details.

I just passed my technician licensing test missing only one question! What a great study guide! I will be using your general study guide to pass the general licensing test this October. I look forward to the day when I can print off the free version of the extra study guide. I hope you are able to use the donation that I just sent you. I look forward to sending you a donation with each test I pass.

So far I have given out 12 copies of the sutdyt guide. Yesterday two of the women went and took the Technician exam, and both passed! They are so excited! One of them asked me for the General Class study guide, which I just emailed to her (your latest version, of course).

I have a group of young men that have asked me to help teach them so they can take their exam. I am planning on using your study guide with them and then try to do some demonstrations to augment their studying.

Thank you for your study guide. I was granted my Tech License back in Feb of 2010 and was able to pass largely due to your well-written and understandable guide. Now I have the burning desire to earn my General ticket, and I know I will be able to do so with the assistance of your study guide. I also agree with another poster that it would be nice to see who all you have helped in the country and have a digital map with all of our virtual pins in the map from our home areas.

Thank you Dan for you wonderful study guides. I passed my Technician exam with flying colors and plan on taking the General exam very soon. Looking forward to the Extra study guide later on this year.

Wow Dan! Your Study guide is amazing. I took a class here in Medford, Oregon with 17 others. We used the current ARRL manuel to study. Myself and several others in the class were totally new to electronics etc. We were pretty discouraged with the layout of the manuel, the question layout etc., and the tremendous amount of information to absorb. I ran across your Study Guide last week. I wish I could have had it from the beginning. It would have been so much easier to learn from the way you grouped everything together so that one could see it all at once rather than jumping back and forth and all over the place.

High, thanks for these study guides, I was able to brush up and pick up my general. After 2 tries my wife was able to get her Tech! That is a big win for your writing style since she is not technically inclined unless the material is present in certain ways. She was able to engage with me on some topics as I studied for my General that she had just absorbed from your tech study guide. The document has Sticking power! I was ecstatic when this happened!

Thanks for the No-Nonses study guides. They are wonderful. I used it to study for the Tech and General (passed both of them missing only a few questions each). After reading the guide once through for a primer I just started taking the practice tests over and over until I got things down. My wife used the tech to study as well and she passed.

Thanks for your kind words, Vic, and thanks for reminding me that I should have posted a comment here that the Extra Class study guide is now available. You can order it right here on the site or via Amazon or Barnes&Noble.

My Extra Class study guide was just published, and covers the questions in the latest question pool. All of my study guides are up-to-date. The General Class study guide was released in 2011 and covers the question pool released then, while the Tech study guide was updated in 2010 to cover that question pool.

I just wanted to say thank you for the time and effort you put into these guides. I used both the tech and general guides and took both at o.e session and passed with flying colors (aced both). Again I thank you.

Matt Kennedy

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Thanks so much for these guides! They were very helpful to me after I read through the ARRL Tech Study Guide. I probably read it for 2 weeks off and on to get familiar with the concepts and info, and then for another 2 weeks or so I read your Tech guide. I passed the test and got 33 out of 35 right this past Saturday.

Thank you very much for the free study guides. Having the free material really motivated me to study and take the test. I used the Tech and General guides and missed only 5 questions total, all on the General test. I have passed your guides on to many hopeful hams. Thanks again for all your hard work.

Jon

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Thank you for the exams study guides. I passed Tech last night having read thru your guide a few times and taking the online exams. I have your General and Extra guides and look forward to testing for them in the coming months.

Yes, the study guides are current. The dates you mention refer to when the current question pools were published. They are updated every four years. So, next year, the Tech question pool will be updated and be the 2014 question pool.

Thanks so much for putting the study guides together. Got 35/35 on my Tech test, and decided to try the General after looking through your guide just twice. I came within two questions (missed 11 when you can only miss 9) of getting my General ticket at the same time. I will be sending a donation your way when I can.

Dan,

What a great resource. I used your tech study guide and aced my tech test on the first try. I also took the General and was able to pass it on my first try. I am guessing some of the general knoledge was left over from my years as an ET in the Navy, but the review you put together was exactly what I needed for the Tech test. Thanks!

I commented on your post last week about the testimonials, but it seems to have been removed for some reason. Just wanted to say thanks for the guides, they helped out a lot. Between them and hamstudy (practice tests/flash cards), I was able to pass all three elements last week and got my license a couple days ago.

Your study guides were invaluable for getting my license. We are having an earthquake drill in a couple of weeks and I just felt the need to finally get my ham license. I studied your technician and general license guides for a couple of weeks (along with some tests and flash cards). I made one mistake on my Technician Exam, no mistakes on my General Exam, and came within 4 questions of passing the Extra Exam.

Both the Gordon West study guide and my study guide cover each question, but we do it in different ways. I think that what Gordon West does is take each question and explains why the correct answer is correct. What I do is to take each question in the question pool, rephrase them as statements, then group related questions and add text to explain the concepts. Rather than treat each question individually, I cover related questions together, and compare and contrast them. 17dc91bb1f