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New Basic Amateur Radio Question Bank 

New RAC bulletin logo November 2019For immediate release – July 15, 2025

 

On January 27, 2025, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) released the new Basic Qualification Question Bank for Amateur Radio.

This new Question Bank will be used for all Basic Amateur Radio Certificate examinations starting today July 15, 2025.

Candidates, instructors and authors of Amateur Radio Study Guides may want to study the new Question Bank which is available for download from the ISED website at the link provided below.

Since early 2023, Radio Amateurs of Canada has had a committee of 20 instructors and Accredited Examiners (AEs) working to update and improve the quality of the 984 questions, 984 correct answers and 2,952 distractors (incorrect answers) in the Question Bank. This was the first major update to the Question Bank since 2013.

RAC’s Examinations Standards Committee (Comité des normes d’examen) (RAC-ESC-CNE) worked closely with ISED officers on the final versions of the exams which were agreed on by RAC and ISED in late 2024.  

Radio Amateurs of Canada has prepared the following documents to help with the transition to the new Question Bank:

  • a bilingual document which contains the old questions next to the new questions and provides notes explaining the changes
  • separate English and French versions of a document containing a list of the 201 new questions
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The documents are available for download from the RAC website at: www.rac.ca/esc_cne.
 
We are extremely grateful to the 20 Radio Amateurs from nine provinces who gave so freely of their time and expertise to bring this enormous project to a successful conclusion. 
 
This is the combined work of a large group of RAC members from across Canada. All were instructors in courses or Accredited Examiners (AEs), or both. The two most prominent were François Daigneault, VE2AAY and Dave Newcombe, VE3WI, who dedicated endless hours to this very exacting project. 
 
The other members of the committee were: 
 
  • Mark Richardson, VA3OBO
  • Francis Pitre, VA6FP
  • Tony Fonseca, VA7TF
  • Yvon Hachey, VE1VON
  • Gaétan Trépanier, VE2GHO
  • Michel Dumais, VE2SIG
  • Rod Clifton, VE3ISO
  • Geoff Bawden, VE4AE
  • Peter Driessen, VE7AB
  • Don Tolson, VE7ATJ
  • Frank Vanderzande, VE7AV
  • Sandy Wohl, VE7SFW
  • John Schouten, VE7TI
  • Frank Davis, VO1HP
  • Al Penney, VO1NO
  • Brent Taylor, VY2HF
  • Fred Archibald, VE1FA
  • Dave Goodwin, VE3KG

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Most of these volunteers are also working on the update to the Advanced Question Bank. This work is expected to be complete in 2026.

Dave Goodwin VE3KG
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