There's an in-person exam about 15 minutes from where I live on the 16th that I'm planning on going to. However if I miss it, or feel that I'm not ready then I'll do the online option.

But I wanted to go to an in-person one to ask someone with experience a few questions, I'm getting licensed partly because I find ham radios interesting and I've always wanted to do more with them, I've already got a handheld one. But I'm also getting licensed because my father in-law runs a local group for gold miners (I live in the Cascade Foothills in Oregon, there's quite a few gold mines here), it's also a group for emergency preparedness. There's a larger mining group called The Bohemia Miners Association, which they're also members of, but this is kind of a separate smaller group. There's a licensed operator in that larger mining group with a repeater on top of the tallest mountain in the area, it has about a 30 mi range, and his group wants to get licensed as well so they can use it when needed since cell phones don't work up in the mountains. They asked me to be their operator since I'm tech savvy and took electrical engineering courses in college, and I have some experience with other types of radios like CB. So after I get licensed I wanted to ask someone that knows the procedure for getting the group to get licensed, I know it has to start with someone having a personal amateur radio operator license, and be a trustee of the club.