The FCC issues three license classes. Only one is Extra. Know if you're there.

Either you're ready
to transmit — or you're not.

The FCC exam is ~$15 — but failing means waiting, restudying, and sitting again. N1XTC tells you exactly where you stand before any of that is on the table.

The standard is precise. The threshold is exact.

Either you've crossed it — or you haven't.

N1 Clearance is not a score. It is a verdict.

PlatformN1XTC
EngineUTOS Adaptive · Online
Question PoolsFCC / ARRL · Current
Exam Fee~$15 per attempt · All three classes
License ClassesTechnician · General · Extra
AffiliationIndependent · Not FCC
VerdictN1 Clearance — or it isn't
The Exams

Three thresholds. One engine.

The FCC does not grade on effort. 74 correct out of 100 — that is the Extra class threshold. Not 73. Not "close." Exact.

Element 2 · Technician
Technician Class
35 questions · 26 correct to pass · ~$15 · Entry license
FCC rules and regulations
Must Pass
Operating procedures
Basic electronics and circuits
Radio wave propagation
Station setup and safety
Element 3 · General
General Class
35 questions · 26 correct to pass · ~$15 · HF access
HF band operation
Must Pass
Advanced electronics
Antenna systems
Digital modes and data
FCC rules — expanded
Element 4 · Amateur Extra
Amateur Extra Class
50 questions · 37 correct to pass · ~$15 · Highest class
Advanced RF theory
Must Pass
Antenna design and modeling
Must Pass
Propagation physics
Digital systems and modes
FCC rules — complete
Safety calculations
The Verdict

Not a score. A revelation.

MRI™Mastery Resonance Imaging™

Any question bank can tell you what you got wrong. N1XTC reads the pattern beneath your answers and tells you something no question bank ever could: not what you got wrong, but why your mind got it wrong. The difference between a score and a diagnosis.

When every threshold holds
N1 Clearance — Granted.

Every domain cleared. Every threshold crossed exactly. The MRI™ scanned all five mastery signatures — every one confirmed.

Conceptual ClarityYour RF and electronics models are structurally correct. No inverted principles. You understand why the laws work — not just that they do.
Applied MasteryYou execute knowledge under exam conditions. Calculation questions matched conceptual performance. Your knowledge is operational.
Precision CalibrationYour calculations are exact. Frequency. Impedance. Power. Decibels. Not approximating — precise to the threshold the FCC requires.
Domain IntegrityEvery domain stands independently. RF theory, propagation, rules, electronics — all above threshold. No fault lines.
Confidence-Accuracy AlignmentWhere you are certain, you are correct. Fastest answers most accurate. 73 — you're ready.

N1 Clearance granted. 73 de N1XTC.

When a threshold doesn't
N1 Clearance — Denied.

Not a score. A diagnosis. The engine has identified exactly which failure signature is blocking your clearance. Address it. Return. The threshold is exact — it does not move.

Conceptual InversionYou don't have a knowledge gap. You have a false belief you are certain of. In RF theory or propagation, you believe the wrong version — and you believe it confidently.
Application BlindnessYou can recite the formula. You cannot execute the calculation under exam conditions. The knowledge lives in memory — not in your hands.
Threshold BlindnessYou are approximating exact values. Impedance ratios. Power calculations. FCC frequency limits. These are not ranges. The exam requires exact answers.
Domain MaskingYour strong domains are hiding a fault line. Rules and operating look fine. RF theory fails. The engine sees through the average.
Confidence-Accuracy DivergenceYou are answering fast and wrong. False certainty on the Extra class exam costs you the license. Speed without accuracy is not readiness.

Return to training. Close the gap. N1 Clearance will be waiting when you do.

What Is The MRI™?

MRI™ — Mastery Resonance Imaging™.
Not a score. A diagnosis.

A medical MRI reads invisible signals to reveal internal structure no eye can see. The UTOS MRI™ reads the invisible pattern in your answers — the sequence, the clustering, the confidence — to reveal not what you got wrong, but why your mind got it wrong. Built by an Amateur Extra who passed Technician, General, and Extra — and knows exactly what it feels like to study blind.

01 — What It Is
A diagnostic engine. Not a question bank.

Every other tool gives you more questions. UTOS gives you a verdict. Built by an operator who holds the highest FCC amateur license and bought Radio Shack's inventory when it closed.

02 — What It Finds
Five failure signatures. Named precisely.

Conceptual Inversion. Application Blindness. Threshold Blindness. Domain Masking. Confidence-Accuracy Divergence. Not weaknesses — diagnoses. Detected from metadata no question pool ever reads.

03 — What It Delivers
A repair plan. Not a topic list.

Every study action is keyed to the specific failure signature causing it. You leave knowing not just what to study — but what is structurally wrong with how you understand the material right now.

ALVERITAS™ · MRI™ · Mastery Resonance Imaging™ · Plain Language Report
MRI DIAGNOSTIC PROFILE
WHAT THE SCAN FOUND  ·  EXPLAINED SIMPLY  ·  5 FAILURE SIGNATURES
MRI Scan
Finding · A·01
⬤ Active
You studied the wrong answer — and you don't know it's wrong.
Conceptual Inversion
Like memorizing that 2+2=5 and believing it. You write it on the exam with full confidence. The mistake isn't laziness. The wrong answer is locked in as the truth.
Severity
Finding · A·02
⬤ Active
You know it at home. You blank on it in the room.
Application Blindness
Like knowing exactly where your keys are — until the moment you actually need them. Your brain has the answer. It just won't open the door when the stakes are real.
Severity
Finding · A·03
⬤ Active
You don't know what you're missing. That's the problem.
Threshold Blindness
You feel ready because everything feels covered. But there's a gap you can't see — because it's in your blind spot. You can't study what you don't know you don't know.
Severity
Finding · A·04
⬤ Active
Your best subject is hiding your worst one.
Domain Masking
You're so strong in one area that your score looks okay overall. But underneath, there's a failing zone. The exam doesn't let your best subject cover for your worst. It finds both.
Severity
Finding · A·05
⬤ Active
You feel ready. Your score says you're not.
Confidence–Accuracy Div.
This is the most dangerous one. You walk in confident. Results come back and you don't understand what happened. Feeling ready and being ready are two completely different things.
Severity
Click any card to expand
SAMPLE
MRI™Mastery Resonance Imaging™· Results Report
N1 Clearance
Denied.
Amateur Extra Class · W6KX · March 23, 2026
2 Failure Signatures Detected1 Domain Below Threshold3 Study Actions Prescribed
2 Signatures
Diagnostic Report
The engine has read your pattern. This is what it found.

This is not a list of what you missed. It is a precise diagnosis of how your mind is currently failing the Amateur Extra standard — specifically in the RF Theory domain.

Domain Scan · Amateur Extra · 74% Threshold (37/50)Each domain scored independently
FCC Rules & Regulations
Cleared ✓20%
88%
Operating Procedures
Cleared ✓18%
82%
RF Theory & Electronics
Must Pass30%
74%
56%
Antennas & Propagation
Cleared ✓20%
76%
Safety
Cleared ✓12%
92%
Failure Signature Scan · 5 Categories Scanned · 2 Detected
The engine has identified your failure signatures.

Not what you missed — what your mind is doing wrong in the RF Theory domain.

Conceptual Inversion
Detected

You don't have a knowledge gap. You have a false belief you are certain of. In RF theory, the engine identified a consistent inversion of the relationship between impedance, reactance, and resonance. You believe the wrong version — and you believe it quickly.

Engine Evidence

RF Theory questions 6, 14, 22, 29, 38 — answered fast, wrong in the same direction. Not random errors. A structural inversion. The exact principle has been identified.

Threshold Blindness
Detected

You are treating calculated values as approximate. Impedance ratios. dB calculations. Resonant frequency formulas. These are not estimates. The Extra class exam requires the exact calculated answer.

Engine Evidence

Calculation questions: 6 of 9 missed. You understand the concepts. You are not executing the math precisely. The exam will not accept an approximate answer.

Application Blindness
Clear
Domain Masking
Clear
Confidence-Accuracy Divergence
Clear
Prescribed Study Actions
3 targeted corrections. Not a topic list. A repair plan.

Address in order. Return when complete. The engine will verify the correction.

01
Conceptual Inversion
Rebuild the impedance-reactance-resonance relationship from first principles — do not reread your study guide.
Your existing mental model is inverted. Rereading reinforces the wrong version. Draw the relationship from scratch, derive the equations, and verify against the ARRL Handbook.
02
Threshold Blindness
Practice RF calculation problems to exact values — no rounding until the final answer.
You understand the formulas. You are not executing them precisely. Work every calculation to full precision before the final step.
03
Threshold Blindness
Memorize dB conversion values and impedance matching ratios to exact numbers.
The Extra class exam tests specific values repeatedly. Exact recall eliminates the calculation step under pressure.
When the repair is complete
Return for another session. N1 Clearance will be waiting.
Return to Training
Sample report · Actual results are unique to each candidate · Every MRI™ sees something different
How It Works

Three phases. One verdict.

01
Baseline
The engine establishes your starting position across every FCC question pool domain. Strengths confirmed. Gaps identified. You know exactly where you stand before a single targeted question is delivered.
02
Adaptive
The engine hunts gaps in real time. RF theory, propagation, electronics, rules — when a weakness surfaces, it stops and drills it. Inject. Test. Retest. No gap survives.
03
Verdict
Every domain must clear its threshold. When all conditions are met — N1 Clearance granted. You don't decide when you're ready. The FCC standard does. The engine enforces it exactly.
From the Bench. Literally.

When Radio Shack closed, I bought the servers. Then the shelves. Then everything in between.

N1XTC was not built by a quiz app. It was built by an Amateur Extra Class operator — call sign N1XTC, Group C, registered in California — who passed Technician, General, and Extra, and knows exactly what it feels like to study blind.

When Radio Shack closed its doors, I didn't share a post and move on. I bought the servers they were running the business on. I emptied every component drawer — resistors, capacitors, transistors, ferrite cores, coax connectors — all of them. I bought the shelves off the walls. Fifty of them.

Not because I needed all of it. Because I understood what it represented — a culture of people who build things, who learn by doing, who don't just consume technology but understand it from the electron up.

I built this engine for those people. For operators who want to know they are ready before they sit down.

73 de N1XTC

FCC License
Amateur Extra Class · Call sign N1XTC · Group C · 1×3 format · District 1 · California
Elements Passed
Element 2 — Technician · Element 3 — General · Element 4 — Amateur Extra
Radio Shack Acquisition
Servers · All component drawers · Solder + iron tips · Breadboards + copper etching supplies · 50 shelf systems — the actual bones of the store
Also Holds
FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate · AIGPE™ Quality Champion Level 5 · LEED Green Associate
Emergency Communications
Amateur Extra class enables full EMCOMM deployment — the intersection of amateur radio and emergency response that defines the N1XTC mission
Pricing

$39 against the highest FCC license.
The math has never been simpler.

Entry Level
Technician Readiness
Full UTOS adaptive engine for the FCC Technician Class exam.
$29
One-time · Unlimited practice sessions
  • Adaptive baseline + gap-targeting sessions
  • All Technician question pool domains
  • Must-pass domain gates enforced
  • MRI™ failure signature diagnosis
  • N1 Clearance verdict when you clear
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General Class
General Readiness
Full UTOS adaptive engine for the FCC General Class upgrade exam.
$29
One-time · Unlimited practice sessions
  • Adaptive baseline + gap-targeting sessions
  • All General question pool domains
  • HF band operation mastery gates
  • MRI™ failure signature diagnosis
  • N1 Clearance verdict when you clear
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Terminal Level
Amateur Extra Readiness
Full UTOS adaptive engine for the Amateur Extra Class — the highest FCC license.
$39
One-time · Unlimited practice sessions
  • All Extra question pool domains
  • Advanced RF theory mastery gates
  • Antenna design and propagation gates
  • MRI™ failure signature diagnosis
  • N1 Clearance verdict when you clear
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Full Arc Bundle
Technician + General + Extra
The complete FCC amateur radio career path. All three license classes, one purchase. Mastery carries forward.
$79
The credential
Amateur Extra Class
SAMPLE

READINESS VERIFIED

This verifies that

Carlos Ochoa

has met the readiness standard for the

FCC Technician Class License Examination

STANDARDS MET

Verified March 23, 2026

N1X-2026-SAMPLE-0000-VRF
READINESS VERIFIED · UNITED STATES · ALVERITAS
N1XTC ALVERITAS · UNITED STATES

Prometheous Lee

PROMETHEOUS LEE  ·  FOUNDER & CHIEF ARCHITECT

N1XTC

This document reflects performance on N1XTC’s internal readiness assessment and does not guarantee passage of any examination administered by the FCC or ARRL.

TECHNICIAN
FCC EXAMINATION
N1XTC
ALVERITAS
UNITED STATES
General Class
SAMPLE

READINESS VERIFIED

This verifies that

Carlos Ochoa

has met the readiness standard for the

FCC General Class License Examination

STANDARDS MET

Verified March 23, 2026

N1X-2026-SAMPLE-0000-VRF
READINESS VERIFIED · UNITED STATES · ALVERITAS
N1XTC ALVERITAS · UNITED STATES

Prometheous Lee

PROMETHEOUS LEE  ·  FOUNDER & CHIEF ARCHITECT

N1XTC

This document reflects performance on N1XTC’s internal readiness assessment and does not guarantee passage of any examination administered by the FCC or ARRL.

GENERAL CLASS
FCC EXAMINATION
N1XTC
ALVERITAS
UNITED STATES
Technician Class
SAMPLE

READINESS VERIFIED

This verifies that

Carlos Ochoa

has met the readiness standard for the

FCC Amateur Extra Class License Examination

STANDARDS MET

Verified March 23, 2026

N1X-2026-SAMPLE-0000-VRF
READINESS VERIFIED · UNITED STATES · ALVERITAS
N1XTC ALVERITAS · UNITED STATES

Prometheous Lee

PROMETHEOUS LEE  ·  FOUNDER & CHIEF ARCHITECT

N1XTC

This document reflects performance on N1XTC’s internal readiness assessment and does not guarantee passage of any examination administered by the FCC or ARRL.

AMATEUR EXTRA
FCC EXAMINATION
N1XTC
ALVERITAS
UNITED STATES
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Readiness Verified is a standard, not a score. The certificate records that a defined PMI® standard was applied, evaluated, and met — on a specific date, for a specific certification level.

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Before You Transmit

N1 Clearance.
Know before you sit.

The Extra class threshold is exact. 37 of 50. Not 36. Not "almost." N1XTC gives you a verdict before you walk into that exam room — with exactly what is weak, why, and what to do next. The MRI™ sees what no question bank ever could.

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One verdict. No question banks. No approximate answers.

N1XTC runs on UTOS — the Universal Testing Operating System. A subject-agnostic readiness engine that verifies candidates are genuinely ready before they sit for a licensing exam. Not a question bank. Not a score. A verdict engine with one output: N1 Clearance granted — or not.

Built by an operator who holds the license. Call sign N1XTC. Amateur Extra Class. Who passed all three elements and knows exactly what the standard requires.

An ALVERITAS product →
800K+
Licensed amateur radio operators in the United States. Every one who upgraded passed through these same three elements.
~$15
Exam fee per attempt — one of the lowest-cost professional licensing exams that exists. The barrier is knowledge, not money.
3
License classes. Technician, General, Extra. One engine. The entire FCC amateur radio arc. Mastery carries forward.
Who it serves
Axis 1 — Operator Preparing
Am I actually ready — or do I just feel ready?

A verdict. Not a score. The engine runs the FCC question pool standard against your preparation and returns a binary answer with a specific reason. Either every threshold is met or it is not. N1 Clearance granted or denied.

Axis 2 — Operator Competing
Every other operator says they’re ready. You can prove it.

A dated, verifiable ALVERITAS credential number. Walk into the ARES interview, the RACES registration, the emergency communications assignment. Tell them to look it up at alveritas.com/verify. Ten seconds. No login.

Axis 3 — Club & Agency Hiring
The call sign tells you they’re licensed. The ACR tells you if they’re ready now.

An FCC license is a historical record. The ALVERITAS Credentialing Registry is a live institutional lookup. Emergency communications groups, ARES nets, and served agencies can verify current operator readiness in ten seconds — not just prior licensure.

Axis 4 — Organization & Program
Training spend without readiness verification is a receipt, not a result.

Amateur radio clubs, EMCOMM programs, and organizations with licensed operator pools can verify that their members meet the current readiness standard — not just that they once passed an exam. A rate. A record. Evidence the training produced results.

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