{"id":950,"date":"2026-05-06T18:47:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w0zwy.org\/?p=950"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:32:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:32:43","slug":"ve-test-session-may-12-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w0zwy.org\/?p=950","title":{"rendered":"VE Test Session \u2014 Tuesday, May 12th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been meaning to get your ham radio license \u2014 or upgrade from Technician to General or Extra \u2014 Tuesday, May 12th is a good time to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>SEARC is holding a Volunteer Examiner (VE) test session that day, and at least one candidate is already signed up. Come join them.<\/p>\n<p>One timing note worth knowing: the Element 2 (Technician) question pool changes on July 1, 2026. Test before that date and you study the current pool, which has been stable for years with plenty of materials available. Test after July 1st and you&#8217;re starting fresh with a new pool.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve already put in study time, there&#8217;s no reason to sit on it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, May 12th \u2014 SEARC VE Test Session<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/w0zwy.org\/?page_id=24\">Details and registration<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Can&#8217;t make the 12th? We&#8217;ll also have testing at our Hamfest on July 25th.)<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been meaning to get your ham radio license \u2014 or upgrade from Technician to General or Extra \u2014 Tuesday, May 12th is a good time to make it happen. SEARC is holding a Volunteer Examiner (VE) test session <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/w0zwy.org\/?p=950\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  VE Test Session \u2014 Tuesday, May 12th<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peQruS-fk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w0zwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w0zwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w0zwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w0zwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w0zwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/w0zwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"https:\/\/w0zwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w0zwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w0zwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w0zwy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}