Subj : ARRL/VEC VE Newsletter To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Wed Jun 15 2022 20:42:29 ARRL VE Newsletter June 2022 - TECHNICIAN EXAMS ======================================================================== Inside this VE E-Newsletter: New Technician Exams take effect July 1 Plastic Grading Templates - REMINDER ======================================================================== New Technician Question Pool Takes Effect July 1 The newly revised pool, released in January 2022 (updated and re-released on 03/07/2022) by the Question Pool Committee (QPC) of the National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC), must be in use starting July 1. There are three graphics required for this pool and 412 questions in this pool, down slightly from 423 in the previous pool. To view all three question pools, visit the NCVEC web site at www.ncvec.org. For ARRL VE teams who are officially field stocked by the ARRL VEC, new Technician class exam design booklets are being shipped out via first class mail this week (June 13 - 17) to nearly 1,000 teams. Field Stocked VE Team leaders should have the package in their hands well in advance of July 1. When you receive the package, please check the content to make sure all quantities have been received. Again, please do not use the new exams until July 1st. The existing Technician class exam booklets (2018 series) can be discarded on or after Midnight, June 30, 2022, as they will no longer be valid. With the Technician-class exam questions changing July 1, new test designs must be used effective that day. Previous ARRL VEC supplied Technician-class exam booklet versions (2018 series) and computer-generated Technician-class exams created from the 2018 question pool are only valid until midnight June 30, 2022. At that time, VE Team leaders should destroy or throw away the older versions of the Technician exams (do not return them to VEC). To avoid a mix-up at the session, do not save old exam versions. Field-stocked teams that no longer meet the field stock requirements, or who have not conducted a session in the past year, and non-field stocked teams that have been keeping supplies without qualifying through the VEC, will not receive an updated package. Non-stocked VE Teams should be returning their exam packages and supplies to the ARRL VEC after their session is completed. The officially stocked VE Teams receive their exam supplies in a large box which is a 6-month-to-1-year supply depending on the team's activity levels. To see if your team qualifies to be field stocked with a bulk quantity of our test materials visit https://www.arrl.org/field-stocked-ve-teams. ======================================================================== Plastic Grading Templates - REMINDER Officially Field Stocked teams must keep your supply of the blue PLASTIC overlay grading templates used to grade the exams. The plastic templates should never be thrown away or destroyed when new exam versions are introduced and shipped. A new KEY For Templates (paper instructions) for the plastic grading templates has been updated and shipped with your new Technician exams to let you know how to match up the plastic templates with the new exam designs. ======================================================================== The ARRL VEC Staff is Ready to Serve You As always, the dedicated VEC staff are here to answer any questions you may have. ARRL VEC: (860) 594-0300 (leave message after regular business hours) Address: ARRL VEC, 225 Main St, Newington CT 06111 Email: VEC@arrl.org Web: www.arrl.org/volunteer-examiners ARRL VEC Fax: 860-594-0339 Maria Somma, AB1FM, Manager Amanda O'Brien, N1NHL, Assistant Manager Stephanie Borden W2MAU, Service Representative Lisa Riendeau, Service Representative Joshua Nance, Service Representative Ann Brinius, Service Representative We thank you for your support of the ARRL VEC program. ======================================================================== ARRL VEC VE Newsletter is published by the American Radio Relay League, Inc. - The National Association for Amateur Radio (R). Material from the ARRL VE E-Newsletter may be republished or reproduced in whole or in part in any form without additional permission. Credit must be given to The ARRL VEC. ARRL VEC 225 Main Street Newington CT 06111 USA Sincerely, Maria Somma, AB1FM - VEC Manager / Editor ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® 225 Main Street Newington, CT 06111 USA msomma@arrl.org ======================================================================== --- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (618:250/33) .