so ive been trying to study for the technician exam for about 3 weeks now and honestly im a little overwhelmed. i bought the ARRL handbook or whatever its called, the one specifically for tech license, and i feel like some of it makes sense but then i get to the electrical stuff and my brain just kind of turns off. like ohms law and calculating antenna lengths and all that.

is there stuff i should really focus on vs stuff thats not gonna show up much? i know the question pool is public but theres like 400 questions in there and i dont really know how to approach it. somebody at my local club said just memorize the answers and dont worry about understanding it but that feels wrong to me. anyway just wondering how other people went about it

honestly the memorize approach isnt terrible if you're in a hurry but yeah for the math stuff it really does help to actually get it or you'll forget it the second you pass. the antenna length calculations are pretty straightforward once you just do a few of them, its basically just 468 divided by frequency for a dipole and you'll see that same formula come up enough that it sticks.

what helped me was hamstudy.org, its free and it drills you on the actual question pool and tracks which ones you keep getting wrong. i probably did like 2-3 practice exams a day for a week before i sat for it. the operating procedures and regulations questions are honestly the easiest once you read through them once, most of it is just common sense if you think about it from a safety standpoint. the RF exposure stuff tripped me up at first but once i understood why those rules exist it clicked. good luck, the test really isnt that bad

hamstudy dot org. thats it thats the reply lol. i studied for maybe 5 days using just that site and passed with one wrong. didnt even open a book