FCC GROL Exam Guide 2026: General Radiotelephone Operator License
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What is the minimum passing score for the FCC Element 3 (General Radiotelephone) examination?
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2026 FCC GROL guide covering Element 1, Element 3, COLEM testing, FRN setup, scoring, official question pools, traps in radio electronics, and free practice.
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GROL: the required written elements
Element 1: Law & Operating Practice
Flashcard
What examination elements are required to obtain a General Radiotelephone Operator License (GROL)?
Organization the FCC authorizes to give the GROL written tests.
Radio law
Guess the Term
Introduction & GROL Exam Overview
1.1 About the General Radiotelephone Operator License
Study guide
Cheat sheet
A GROL holder is required to adjust, maintain, or internally repair FCC-licensed radiotelephone transmitters in which services?
Read the clue and guess the term in 6 tries.
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What does Element 1 test?
What is the term of a General Radiotelephone Operator License issued by the FCC?
Word spoken three times to open a maritime distress call, followed by the vessel's name and call sign in phonetics.
Distress communications
Who administers the FCC commercial operator license examinations?
Element 1 passing threshold
What is the FCC application fee for a new commercial radio operator license?
Alerting technique that has VHF channel 70 to itself and is watched on MF and HF as well.
Operating procedures
1.2 Exam Format, COLEMs, FRN & Application Process
What is the FCC Registration Number (FRN) used for?
Swap tiles to line up three of the same term.
Term Match
What does Element 3 test?
According to Ohm's Law, what is the current flowing through a 50-ohm resistor with 100 volts applied across it?
Grol Electrical Principles
Battery-powered transmitter that floats free of a sinking ship and, on 406 MHz, reaches rescue satellites.
Survival craft
What is the total resistance of three 30-ohm resistors connected in parallel?
Element 3 passing threshold
What is the unit of measurement for electrical capacitance?
Grol Circuit Components
Survival-craft device that, when interrogated by a nearby vessel's 9 GHz pulse, returns 12 equally spaced dots on that vessel's display.
Element 1: Rules & Regulations
2.1 Equipment Requirements (Part 80)
What is the formula for calculating power in a DC circuit?
Flip two cards at a time to find matching terms.
Term Pairs
What is a COLEM?
In an AC circuit, what is the relationship between frequency and wavelength?
Amplitude that equals 1.414 times the voltage an AC voltmeter shows.
Electrical principles
What is the impedance of a series RLC circuit at resonance?
Question · Medium
Spoken-English qualification
What happens to the capacitive reactance of a capacitor as the frequency of the applied signal increases?
Semiconductor used to hold a steady reference voltage inside a linear regulator.
Circuit components
2.2 License Requirements & Operator Authority
What is the primary function of a transformer in an electronic circuit?
Find five hidden terms in a grid of letters.
Term Search
Proof of Passing Certificate (PPC)
A transformer has a primary winding of 100 turns and a secondary winding of 500 turns. If the primary voltage is 120 VAC, what is the secondary voltage?
Crystal that vibrates mechanically when a voltage is applied, the resonator whose cut and size set an oscillator's frequency.
What type of semiconductor device has three terminals called the emitter, base, and collector?
What operating authority does a GROL include?
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