Free to use Amateur Radio Study Arcade

Ham ExamArcade™

Browser-based amateur radio exam practice with text-based arcade-style games.

Study. Play. Pass.

Ham Exam Arcade™ combines license-question practice with text-based arcade-style games, notes, search tools, missed-question review, stats, and backup support for the Technician, General, and Extra amateur radio license pools.

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Elmer using a radio outdoors

Exam practice with a little voltage in it

Ham Exam Arcade™ turns study sessions into a collection of short, replayable challenges. It is still exam practice at heart, but the presentation leans into game rhythm, progress, review, and discovery instead of endless plain drills.

Elmer at a radio desk
Free to use

Study without a paywall

Ham Exam Arcade is free to use for aspiring and upgrading amateur radio operators. Optional contributions can help support hosting, maintenance, and future development, but payment is never required to study or play.

Contributions are voluntary and are not tax-deductible charitable donations. Payment is handled by PayPal; Ham Exam Arcade does not collect or store payment card information.

What Ham Exam Arcade includes

  1. Practice for U.S. Technician, General, and Amateur Extra license exams using current NCVEC question pools.
  2. Exam Cram for straightforward question practice when you want a clean study run.
  3. Text-based arcade-style game modes that add variety, challenge, and replay value.
  4. Missed-question review after games so wrong answers become study targets.
  5. Built-in notes for capturing reminders while studying.
  6. Search tools that support learning instead of treating research like cheating.
  7. Focus tools for targeting categories, weak areas, and question-code groups.
  8. Stats and progress tracking stored in the browser.
  9. Backup and restore tools for protecting notes, stats, and progress.
  10. No account required for regular browser-based study sessions.

Arcade preview

Screenshots rotate automatically. Click the preview to open a larger viewer and step through the set manually.

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Best on desktop or laptop

The public website is readable on phones, but the Arcade itself is designed and tested primarily for desktop and laptop browsers where the game screens have room to breathe.

Your study data stays local

Progress, notes, and most stats are stored in your current browser profile. Use the built-in Backup tool if you want a portable safety copy or plan to move between browsers or computers.

Tell me what you think

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