Practice Exam

T1A03

1. What do the FCC rules state regarding the use of a phonetic alphabet for station identification in the Amateur Radio Service?

• A. It is required when in contact with foreign stations
• B. It is required when transmitting emergency messages
• C. It is encouraged
• D. All these choices are correct

T8C05

2. What is a grid locator?

• A. An instrument for neutralizing a final amplifier
• B. A letter-number designator assigned to an azimuth and elevation
• C. An instrument for radio direction finding
• D. A letter-number designator assigned to a geographic location

T2A01

3. What is a common repeater frequency offset in the 2 meter band?

• A. Plus or minus 600 kHz
• B. Plus or minus 500 kHz
• C. Plus or minus 5 MHz
• D. Plus or minus 1 MHz

T9B01

4. What is a benefit of low SWR?

• A. All these choices are correct
• B. Less antenna wear
• C. Reduced signal loss
• D. Reduced television interference

T1C04

5. What may happen if the FCC is unable to reach you by email?

• A. Revocation of the station license or suspension of the operator license
• B. Nothing; there is no such requirement
• C. Fine and suspension of operator license
• D. Revocation of access to the license record in the FCC system

T1E11

6. Who does the FCC presume to be the control operator of an amateur station, unless documentation to the contrary is in the station records?

• A. The station licensee
• B. The person operating the station equipment
• C. The third party participant
• D. The station custodian

T7D07

7. Which of the following measurements are made using a multimeter?

• A. Impedance and reactance
• B. All these choices are correct
• C. Signal strength and noise
• D. Voltage and resistance

T8B02

8. What is the impact of using excessive effective radiated power on a satellite uplink?

• A. Overloading the satellite batteries
• B. Blocking access by other users
• C. Possibility of commanding the satellite to an improper mode
• D. Possibility of rebooting the satellite control computer

T2B11

9. Which Q signal indicates that you are changing frequency?

• A. QSL
• B. QRU
• C. QRZ
• D. QSY

T6B10

10. Which of the following can provide power gain?

• A. Resistor
• B. Transformer
• C. Reactor
• D. Transistor

T5C05

11. What is the unit of impedance?

• A. The volt
• B. The ampere
• C. The coulomb
• D. The ohm

T6D05

12. What type of circuit controls the amount of voltage from a power supply?

• A. Phase inverter
• B. Regulator
• C. Filter
• D. Oscillator

T1B07

13. Which of the following VHF/UHF band segments are limited to CW only?

• A. 219 MHz to 220 MHz and 420.0 MHz to 420.1 MHz
• B. 902.0 MHz to 902.1 MHz
• C. 50.0 MHz to 50.1 MHz and 144.0 MHz to 144.1 MHz
• D. All these choices are correct

T5B03

14. Which is equal to one kilovolt?

• A. One million volts
• B. One thousand volts
• C. One one-thousandth of a volt
• D. One hundred volts

T9A06

15. Which of the following types of antenna offers the greatest gain?

• A. 5/8 wave vertical
• B. J pole
• C. Yagi
• D. Isotropic

T1D01

16. With which countries are FCC-licensed amateur radio stations prohibited from exchanging communications?

• A. Any country whose administration has notified the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) that it objects to such communications
• B. Any country whose administration has notified the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) that it objects to such communications
• C. Any country banned from making such communications by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL)
• D. Any country banned from such communications by the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU)

T7B10

17. What might be a problem if you receive a report that your audio signal through an FM repeater is distorted or unintelligible?

• A. You are in a bad location
• B. Your batteries are running low
• C. Your transmitter is slightly off frequency
• D. All these choices are correct

T5D07

18. What is the current in a circuit with an applied voltage of 120 volts and a resistance of 80 ohms?

• A. 1.5 amperes
• B. 200 amperes
• C. 9600 amperes
• D. 0.667 amperes

T6A07

19. What electrical component is typically constructed as a coil of wire?

• A. Inductor
• B. Diode
• C. Switch
• D. Capacitor

T7A02

20. What is a transceiver?

• A. A device that combines a receiver and transmitter
• B. A device for converting receiver and transmitter frequencies to another band
• C. A device for matching feed line impedance to 50 ohms
• D. A device for automatically sending and decoding Morse code

T2C06

21. What is the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES)?

• A. A group of licensed amateurs who have voluntarily registered their qualifications and equipment for communications duty in the public service
• B. A training program that certifies amateur operators for membership in the Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service
• C. A training program that provides licensing courses for those interested in obtaining an amateur license to use during emergencies
• D. A group of licensed amateurs who are members of the military and who voluntarily agreed to provide message handling services in the case of an emergency

T3C05

22. Which of the following effects may allow radio signals to travel beyond obstructions between the transmitting and receiving stations?

• A. Quantum tunneling
• B. Faraday rotation
• C. Knife-edge diffraction
• D. Doppler shift

T3A03

23. What antenna polarization is normally used for long-distance CW and SSB contacts on the VHF and UHF bands?

• A. Right-hand circular
• B. Left-hand circular
• C. Horizontal
• D. Vertical

T7C07

24. What happens to power lost in a feed line?

• A. It is radiated as harmonics
• B. It increases the SWR
• C. It is converted into heat
• D. It distorts the signal

T8A08

25. What is the approximate bandwidth of a typical single sideband (SSB) voice signal?

• A. 15 kHz
• B. 6 kHz
• C. 3 kHz
• D. 1 kHz

T1F03

26. When are you required to transmit your assigned call sign?

• A. At least every 15 minutes during and at the end of a communication
• B. At least every 10 minutes during and at the end of a communication
• C. At least once during each transmission
• D. At the beginning of each contact, and every 10 minutes thereafter

T3B02

27. What property of a radio wave defines its polarization?

• A. The ratio of the energy in the magnetic field to the energy in the electric field
• B. The orientation of the electric field
• C. The orientation of the magnetic field
• D. The ratio of the velocity to the wavelength

T8D08

28. Which of the following is included in packet radio transmissions?

• A. All these choices are correct
• B. A header that contains the call sign of the station to which the information is being sent
• C. A check sum that permits error detection
• D. Automatic repeat request in case of error

T0C01

29. What type of radiation are radio signals?

• A. Alpha radiation
• B. Non-ionizing radiation
• C. Ionizing radiation
• D. Gamma radiation

T0B05

30. What is the purpose of a safety wire through a turnbuckle used to tension guy lines?

• A. Prevent loosening of the turnbuckle from vibration
• B. Provide a ground path for lightning strikes
• C. Secure the guy line if the turnbuckle breaks
• D. Provide an ability to measure for proper tensioning

T4B03

31. How is squelch adjusted so that a weak FM signal can be heard?

• A. Turn on the anti-squelch function
• B. Set the squelch threshold so that receiver output audio is on all the time
• C. Enable squelch enhancement
• D. Turn up the audio level until it overcomes the squelch threshold

T5A01

32. Electrical current is measured in which of the following units?

• A. Ohms
• B. Volts
• C. Watts
• D. Amperes

T6C02

33. What is component 1 in figure T-1?

• A. Transistor
• B. Connector
• C. Resistor
• D. Battery

T4A05

34. Where should an RF power meter be installed?

• A. In the feed line, between the transmitter and antenna
• B. At the power supply output
• C. In the power supply cable, as close as possible to the radio
• D. In parallel with the push-to-talk line and the antenna

T0A11

35. What hazard exists in a power supply immediately after turning it off?

• A. Charge stored in filter capacitors
• B. Voltage transients from kickback diodes
• C. Circulating currents in the dc filter
• D. Leakage flux in the power transformer