[NAME],
You have a reservation for the Boston Amateur Radio Club’s exam session on Monday, [DATE], at 7:30 pm at Artisans Asylum in Allston. You can find directions to the Holton Street building here: https://www.barc.org/directions-to-artisans-asylum-allston/. My exam team and I are looking forward to giving you your Technician license and helping you get started in amateur radio. [OR] My exam team and I are looking forward to giving you your upgrade to [CLASS].
If you have registered via EventBrite, you must respond to this mail in order to confirm your reservation. If you have not responded by the day of the test, your reservation will be cancelled, and if we have no reservations we will cancel the entire test session.
If you can bring a laptop that will speed things up and help save a tree. Our testing system is officially supported on the current version of the Chrome web browser. Chrome or common derivatives will run on most modern desktop operating systems, including Windows, MacOS, and most mainstream Linux distributions.
If you cannot bring a suitable laptop, please let me know and I will have paper exams available for you.
To register officially for the session, go to https://ham.study/sessions. We’re “Boston ARC Exam Team” and you’ll find the session under the date ([DATE]). Click the “Register” button and follow the instructions. You need an FCC FRN before registering, which you can get at https://apps.fcc.gov/cores/userLogin.do. Do not make any errors when supplying information for your FRN or entering it on forms. If something is not correct, your license application can fall into a bureaucratic black hole for weeks.
You will need to bring a photo ID to the test session and the PIN you were given when you registered. We do ask that you be on time, since we don’t start the test until everyone we’re expecting has arrived. If for some reason you can’t make it or are delayed, email me (up to about 5 pm) or call my cell at [NUMBER], as a courtesy to the uncompensated volunteers who give the exams.
The test fee is $15, which you can send via PayPal to w1bos@arrl.net or bring in cash to the test session.
I’ve attached some RF safety information, which the FCC requires you to have read. [ATTACH RF SAFETY INFO PDF]
Best of luck, and feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.
Kind regards,
Joe Chapman NV1W / Secretary and Volunteer Exam Liaison, Boston Amateur Radio Club.