Practice Exam

Element 2: Technician (Expires June 30)

T9A07

1. What is a disadvantage of using a handheld VHF transceiver with a flexible antenna inside a vehicle?

T1C06

2. From which of the following locations may an FCC-licensed amateur station transmit?

T6D05

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

T7D11

4. Which of the following precautions should be taken when measuring in-circuit resistance with an ohmmeter?

T3A10

5. What effect does multi-path propagation have on data transmissions?

T2A10

6. What is a band plan, beyond the privileges established by the FCC?

T1F11

7. Which of the following is a requirement for the issuance of a club station license grant?

T5D01

8. What formula is used to calculate current in a circuit?

T7B02

9. What would cause a broadcast AM or FM radio to receive an amateur radio transmission unintentionally?

T0B10

10. Which of the following is true when installing grounding conductors used for lightning protection?

T5B08

11. Which is equal to 1,000,000 picofarads?

T8D08

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

T1E08

13. Which of the following is an example of automatic control?

T8C02

14. Which of these items would be useful for a hidden transmitter hunt?

T6B03

15. Which of these components can be used as an electronic switch?

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T6C03

16. What is component 2 in figure T-1?

T6A03

17. What electrical parameter is controlled by a potentiometer?

T1D04

18. Under what conditions is an amateur station authorized to transmit music using a phone emission?

T1A04

19. How many operator/primary station license grants may be held by any one person?

T3C01

20. Why are simplex UHF signals rarely heard beyond their radio horizon?

T0A08

21. Where should a fuse or circuit breaker be installed in a 120V AC power circuit?

T4A01

22. Which of the following is an appropriate power supply rating for a typical 50 watt output mobile FM transceiver?

T7C07

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

T4B12

24. What is the result of tuning an FM receiver above or below a signal's frequency?

T0C10

25. Why is duty cycle one of the factors used to determine safe RF radiation exposure levels?

T3B06

26. What is the formula for converting frequency to approximate wavelength in meters?

T8A09

27. What is the approximate bandwidth of a VHF repeater FM voice signal?

T1B03

28. Which frequency is in the 6 meter amateur band?

T7A10

29. What device increases the transmitted output power from a transceiver?

T5C13

30. What is the abbreviation for kilohertz?

T9B08

31. Which of the following is a source of loss in coaxial feed line?

T2B08

32. Which of the following applies when two stations transmitting on the same frequency interfere with each other?

T5A06

33. What is the unit of frequency?

T8B09

34. What causes spin fading of satellite signals?

T2C05

35. What does the term "traffic" refer to in net operation?