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The Lakeland Amateur Radio Club Volunteer Examiner Team, formally recognized by the ARRL, conducts Amateur Radio examination sessions on the second Monday of each month starting at 5:30 PM (17:30) EST/EDT. This testing occurs before our regularly scheduled club meeting which is held at the same location. No pre-registration is required, so you can just walk-in and take an exam. Please make sure to confirm a testing session is scheduled before you arrive by clicking here to view the Laurel VEC Exam Sessions Schedule. You are required to register with the FCC Cores system and receive an FCC Registration Number (FRN) and bring that number to the testing session. For more information on obtaining your FCC FRN number, please view this YouTube video. If you are interested in obtaining your FCC Amateur Radio operators license, then the first place we would recommend to start would be the What is Ham Radio site sponsored by the ARRL. Once you find out more information and decide that it’s right for you, you can find more information on study materials, course videos, and amateur radio exam practice tests online here. The Lakeland Amateur Radio Club has their own sponsored Volunteer Examiner team which is headed up by Russ Delaney, N4RTD and Cheryl Delaney, N4CAD. All costs associated with administering exams are covered by the LARC, so there is NO COST to the candidate for their test(s)! IMPORTANT! When preparing to come in for your exam, please bring your FRN (this is mandatory, no exceptions!), an operational pen, one or two sharpened pencils, a simple (non-programmable) calculator if you desire, at least two forms of identification (one must have a picture). It is important that you arrive prepared so that other candidates aren't disturbed during their exams. Note: Our system will bring up your current license information. If you have passed an exam at another session and have a pending application in the system not shown in the FCC database reflecting an upgrade, please bring that CSCE from that examination session so we can reflect that credit toward your next exam. For example, you are a Technician who passed the General exam elsewhere and now want to take the Amateur Extra exam. You must bring the CSCE with you showing your successful completion of the General exam so that we could administer the Amateur Extra exam to you. This is very rare these days with the expediency of electronic processing, but just in case that scenario exists, you will want to have your CSCE with you to prove your exam credit. Thanks for your support, we are excited about serving the amateur community in Polk County and surrounding areas! |
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