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fccexam

Practice tests for the US FCC commercial radio licence exams

What it does

Practice questions for the FCC commercial radio operator licence elements -- the General Radiotelephone Operator Licence and the associated endorsements -- drawn from the published pools.

Why you would want it

These are not the amateur exams. The GROL is what a technician maintaining aviation, marine or broadcast transmitters needs, and it comes up for amateurs who work professionally around radio. The Debian Blend's own note on this package says the same thing, because the confusion is common.

Before it will work

None.

How it installs

  • apt: fccexam

Known problems

Frequently mistaken for the amateur exam tool; that is hamexam. The pool snapshot caveat applies here too -- Ubuntu and Kali carry 1.0.8 against 1.0.7 elsewhere (measured 2026-08-28).

Keeping it current

  • probe: apt policy
  • strategy: apt_upgrade

Where to get help with the software itself

Debian declares no upstream Homepage; the tracker is cited rather than a guess.

Source: catalog/packages/fccexam.yaml