Glaarg VEC

04/11/2026

Sorry for the late post but we are excited to be a part of this: https://maritime-archive.calpoly.edu/tsgb-summer-sea-term/blog/2025/7-3-2025.html

01/14/2024

Did you know that the GLAARG website has a new look? Have you been able to check it out yet? Let us know, what your favorite part of the new update to the website is. Check it out at https://glaarg.org/

05/31/2021

As of June 1, 2021, all GLAARG VEC exams are $10, whether on-line (Remote) or in-person.

05/27/2021

New Hamstudy.org/sessions UI - click Remote and choose GLAARG VEC to see our Remote Sessions. The default is to display only In-person sessions. This is what you have to do to see GLAARG's Remote Sessions:

12/02/2020

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-20-126A1.pdf "As of the effective date of this Order, we will no longer print and mail paper authorizations. All notification preferences will be automatically set or reset to receive electronic licenses, and all licensees can download and print official copies of their licenses in ULS License Manager."

11/21/2020

WB6OHW and K6YXH observed an in-person session that Terry W5TMP arranged. So we could observe, he also created a Zoom session. He used GradeCam answer sheets, and set up an ExamTools session. The exam booklets were generated from ExamTools as well. The Applicants registered on ExamTools, signed their 605s on ExamTools, as did the other VEs. They could have just marked their exams while logged into ExamTools. So, the only difference, really, is that the VEs observed in-person rather than over Zoom, and since the VEs were there with them, they could administer exams to mutiple Applicants at one time. This type of session is almost exactly what ExamTools was developed to do, allow applicants to take the exam on a computer or even a cell phone. At the end of the exam, all the documentation, including the EBF file, is generated by ET. Nice!

11/15/2020

https://n2rac.com/get-your-amateur-radio-license-by-attending-an-online-exam-session-24e6a0088735

The pandemic has accelerated digital transformation, and radio amateurs have quickly adjusted to the situation

11/08/2020

GLAARG VEC has been using ExamTools to print our exam booklets for many years. Now, thanks to your support, SignalStuff has been able to upgrade ET so we can print them with more font sizes, with or without figures, and even in Spanish!

Without hams buying SignalStuff products and donating, this wouldn't have been possible. Here are useful links:

https://signalstuff.com/product/super-elastic-signal-stick-sma-male/

Help support Signal Stuff by donating or sharing with your friends.

10/28/2020

We just received permission from the FCC to resume using Spanish translations of the Question Pools. GLAARG VEC will continue to work with the Concilio Puertorriqueño de EV to maintain the Traducción Oficial del Grupo de Preguntas del Concilio Puertorriqueño de EV.

10/24/2020

History of Spanish Language Exams:

A nosotros, los seres humanos, nos sale natural el emprender discusiones y debates sin tener todos los hechos a la mano y a veces, bajo desconocimiento total del asunto. Pero recientemente ha salid…

10/20/2020

Our thanks to all the VEs who supported Dave AE7TD, Chris W8W0T, Connor KD9LSV and Norm K6YXH this weekend! Another new crop of hams showed up in ULS at 6:15 EST Monday morning when the FCC's ULS fired up and processed the sessions submitted over the weekend.

We've noticed that future sessions are filling up at a noticeably slower rate - maybe GLAARG VE teams are reaching the end of the pent-up demand?

Naomi WB6OHW, Connor KD9LSV, Jonah KJ0NAH and Steve KO4AFL, having managed two 100+ sessions, have decided 75 is a lot more comfortable but still manageable in a three hour session. Of course that only works when they get an equal number of VEs working in 16 or more breakout rooms. Hooray for all the VEs who joined GLAARG to make this possible!

Dave AE7TD is doing increasingly larger sessions and consistently running multiple sessions every week. His VE yeam is running multiple breakout rooms.

Naomi has decided to just let last-minute dropouts go without opening the sessions to more applicants (she was doing this to reach her goal of 100+ applicants) - avoiding the hassle of making last minute changes is something Chris learned some time ago - there's just too much scrambling. She's still putting together the largest sessions of anyone doing remote exams. Of course we still remember pitching in to participate in Chris's first (accidental) mega-session!

Everyone keep up the great work and keep having fun!

10/17/2020

FCC has asked all VECs to suspend giving exams in Spanish until the end of the month. All VECs amounts to just W4VEC and GLAARG, since no other VECs are giving exams in Spanish.

Hopefully they will allow resumption of these exams soon. Spanish translations have been available and legal since 1980, which is even before the Volunteer Exam Program, when the FCC offered them in Spanish. So, for the past 40 years, without interruption (until now). Hopefully they will satisfy themselves that all is well and let us get back to work.