Ham Radio Companion

Ham License Exam Prep & Study

Free · Designed for iPad

New: offline call-sign lookup for every U.S. licence, satellite passes, beam headings, NOAA Weather Radio, and 12 more guides — plus every real exam question explained. Pass your U.S. ham radio license exam — and become a better operator. Ham Radio Companion turns the official FCC exams into something you can actually study: every real question, a plain-language explanation for each one, and a full toolkit for life on the air. Free, no account, no ads. Technician, General, or Amateur Extra — practice the exact questions you'll see on exam day, understand WHY each answer is right, and walk in ready. EVERY OFFICIAL EXAM QUESTION Straight from the public NCVEC pools, with all schematic figures: • Technician 2026-2030 — 409 questions • General 2023-2027 — 423 questions • Amateur Extra 2024-2028 — 599 questions • 1,431 real questions in all UNDERSTAND EVERY ANSWER • A clear, plain-language explanation for every single question • Tap the cited FCC Part 97 rule to read the actual regulation SMART, FLEXIBLE STUDY • Set your exam date and a daily goal, with an optional reminder • Real spaced repetition: Smart Review and Flashcards start with what's due • Realistic mock exams, built the official way and scored like the real test — timed if you like • Custom quizzes, study by topic, a weak-areas drill, and question search • Pause any quiz and resume exactly where you left off — on the same device or another one KNOW WHEN YOU'RE READY • A readiness gauge for each license class and a topic-mastery heat map • Score-trend and accuracy-by-topic charts, a study streak, and achievements A COMPLETE HAM TOOLKIT • Call Sign Lookup: every active U.S. licence from the FCC's public list, built in and searched offline, plus the country, CQ and ITU zones of any call sign worldwide • Satellites: next passes of the amateur satellites and the ISS over your location, with uplink and downlink frequencies • Beam Heading: distance and true or magnetic heading to any grid, ZIP code, call sign or country • NOAA Weather Radio: your nearest transmitters and county SAME code • Live band conditions from NOAA: solar flux, K-index, storm scales, forecasts, HF absorption and aurora, with an HF propagation estimate • A logbook that fills in U.S. stations for you, with ADIF import and export • A Morse (CW) trainer with Farnsworth timing and a Koch drill • Seventeen calculators — from Ohm's law and antenna length to RF exposure and feed-line loss — each showing its formula • The full FCC Part 97 rules, a drawn-to-scale band plan, every DXCC prefix, emergency frequencies, and 15 reference charts, all searchable LEARN THE HOBBY, NOT JUST THE TEST • 38 plain-language guides, from your first radio to antennas, propagation and emergency communications, and a 155-term glossary • A new ham-radio term every day • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Siri shortcuts, and Spotlight search SYNC ACROSS YOUR DEVICES (OPTIONAL) • Turn on iCloud Sync and your history, bookmarks, logbook, and even a quiz in progress follow you between iPhone and iPad • Off by default, stored only in your own private iCloud — never on our servers BUILT RIGHT • Native, polished design for iPhone and iPad • Works offline — questions, explanations, guides, reference tools and call-sign lookup need no connection (live band conditions, satellite elements and iCloud sync do) • No account, no ads, no tracking Ham Radio Companion is an independent study aid and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the FCC, NCVEC, ARRL, NOAA, or any other organization. Question pools and U.S. Government data are used in the public domain; other sources are credited in the app.

  • 5.0
    out of 5
    2 Ratings

Version 3.0 — a plan, a schedule, and a much bigger toolkit. STUDY • Study Plan: set your exam date and a daily goal; Home shows today's progress and a countdown, and an optional reminder keeps your streak going • Real spaced repetition: every answer schedules the question for review, and Smart Review and Flashcards start with what's due • Search the pool by number or word, see your history with any question, and drill exactly what you found • Topic Mastery heat map of every question group — tap a weak one to drill it • Timed mock exams, read-aloud, and a shareable results card NEW TOOLS • Call Sign Lookup: every active U.S. licence from the FCC's public list, searched on your device with no connection — plus the country, CQ and ITU zones for any call sign worldwide • Satellites: the next passes of the amateur satellites and the ISS over your location, with their uplinks, downlinks and modes • Beam Heading: distance and true or magnetic heading to a grid square, ZIP code, call sign or country, using the 2025 World Magnetic Model • NOAA Weather Radio: the transmitters nearest you and your county's SAME code • Logbook fills in name, city and grid for U.S. stations, and adds band from frequency, distance and heading, duplicate warnings, statistics, CSV export and ADIF import • Band Conditions adds the NOAA R/S/G scales, a 3-day Kp forecast, the 27-day outlook, HF absorption, aurora activity and the WWV alert — and works offline LEARN AND REFERENCE • 12 new guides: DC and AC circuits, transistors, antennas, feed lines, the ionosphere, VHF paths, RF-exposure evaluation, and an emergency-communications series (ARES and RACES, ICS for radio operators, net procedure, field antennas and power) • Every DXCC entity and prefix, the full ITU call-sign table, emergency and calling frequencies, ICS forms, a drawn-to-scale U.S. band plan, power limits, repeater offsets, and one search across it all • Credits & Licenses lists every source the app draws on AND MORE • Lock Screen widgets, Control Center controls, Home Screen quick actions, smarter Siri ("Drill T5"), and Spotlight search • Morse: Farnsworth timing, pitch, prosigns, a flashing light, and a Koch receive drill • Eight new calculators, including RF exposure, ERP/EIRP, impedance and feed-line loss • Find exam sessions and clubs near a ZIP code, and import a study-data backup Free, works offline, and private — no account, no ads, no tracking.

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    Seller
    Chris Carcerano
    Size
    48.2 MB
    Category
    Reference
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
    Languages
    English
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
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