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General Class Band/Frequency Flashcards

(Front → Back — optimized for memory)

HF Bands (General privileges)

These are the core HF bands you’ll see in the exam.

Flashcard 1

Front: 160‑meter band starts at… Back: 1.8 MHz

Flashcard 2

Front: 80‑meter band starts at… Back: 3.5 MHz

Flashcard 3

Front: 60‑meter channels are around… Back: 5 MHz (channelized) (You don’t need exact channel numbers for the exam.)

Flashcard 4

Front: 40‑meter band starts at… Back: 7.0 MHz

Flashcard 5

Front: 30‑meter band starts at… Back: 10.1 MHz

Flashcard 6

Front: 20‑meter band starts at… Back: 14.0 MHz

Flashcard 7

Front: 17‑meter band starts at… Back: 18.068 MHz (Just remember “18 MHz = 17 meters.”)

Flashcard 8

Front: 15‑meter band starts at… Back: 21.0 MHz

Flashcard 9

Front: 12‑meter band starts at… Back: 24.89 MHz (Think “25 MHz ≈ 12 meters.”)

Flashcard 10

Front: 10‑meter band starts at… Back: 28.0 MHz

📡 VHF/UHF (same as Technician, but included for completeness)

Flashcard 11

Front: 6‑meter band starts at… Back: 50 MHz

Flashcard 12

Front: 2‑meter band starts at… Back: 144 MHz

Flashcard 13

Front: 70‑centimeter band starts at… Back: 420–450 MHz (Most hams remember “440 MHz.”)

🔑 The General Class “One‑Line Memory Hook”

Say this sequence once a day:

Code

1.8 → 3.5 → 5 → 7 → 10.1 → 14 → 18 → 21 → 24.89 → 28 → 50 → 144 → 440

It’s the entire General‑level band plan in a single breath.

A Technician‑Friendly Way to Remember the Bands

Instead of memorizing a giant chart, anchor each band to a single “identity phrase.” Your brain is great at remembering patterns, not raw numbers.

Here’s the Technician set boiled down to the essentials:

HF Bands (Tech has small slices)

80m → 3.5 MHz “Three‑point‑five is eighty.”
40m → 7.0 MHz “Seven megahertz is forty.”
15m → 21 MHz “Twenty‑one is fifteen.” (This one is weird but easy once you say it out loud.)
10m → 28 MHz “Twenty‑eight is ten.”

Those four are the only HF bands you need to recognize for Technician.

VHF/UHF (the ones you’ll actually use)

These are the ones every Tech uses constantly:

6m → 50 MHz “Fifty is six.”
2m → 144 MHz “One‑forty‑four is two.”
70cm → 440 MHz “Four‑forty is seventy centimeters.”

If you remember those three, you’ve nailed the VHF/UHF portion.

🎯 The Trick That Helps Most People

Don’t memorize the ranges. Memorize the starting frequency of each band.

Once you know:

…the exam questions become pattern recognition instead of recall.

🧠 A 10‑Second Daily Drill

Say this sequence once a day:

Code

3.5 → 7 → 21 → 28 → 50 → 144 → 440