Practice Exam

Element 2: Technician (Expires June 30)

T9B04

1. What is the major function of an antenna tuner (antenna coupler)?

T6B09

2. What are the names for the electrodes of a diode?

T7B08

3. What should you do if something in a neighbor's home is causing harmful interference to your amateur station?

T0C13

4. Who is responsible for ensuring that no person is exposed to RF energy above the FCC exposure limits?

T2C09

5. Are amateur station control operators ever permitted to operate outside the frequency privileges of their license class?

T8B12

6. Which of the following is a way to determine whether your satellite uplink power is neither too low nor too high?

T5D09

7. What is the current through a 24-ohm resistor connected across 240 volts?

T7D02

8. How is a voltmeter connected to a component to measure applied voltage?

T3A08

9. What is a likely cause of irregular fading of signals propagated by the ionosphere?

T7A08

10. Which of the following describes combining speech with an RF carrier signal?

T0B08

11. Which is a proper grounding method for a tower?

T1C06

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

T1F02

13. How often must you identify with your FCC-assigned call sign when using tactical call signs such as "Race Headquarters"?

T4B03

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

T1A04

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

T1D07

16. What types of amateur stations can automatically retransmit the signals of other amateur stations?

T0A11

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

T4A05

18. Where should an RF power meter be installed?

T2B05

19. What would cause your FM transmission audio to be distorted on voice peaks?

T6D06

20. What component changes 120 V AC power to a lower AC voltage for other uses?

T9A04

21. What is a disadvantage of the short, flexible antenna supplied with most handheld radio transceivers, compared to a full-sized quarter-wave antenna?

T7C06

22. What does an SWR reading of 4:1 indicate?

T3C02

23. What is a characteristic of HF communication compared with communications on VHF and higher frequencies?

T8C10

24. What is required before using the EchoLink system?

T1E02

25. Who may be the control operator of a station communicating through an amateur satellite or space station?

T8A03

26. Which type of voice mode is often used for long-distance (weak signal) contacts on the VHF and UHF bands?

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T6C11

27. What is component 4 in figure T-3?

T5B05

28. Which is equal to 500 milliwatts?

T5A12

29. What describes the number of times per second that an alternating current makes a complete cycle?

T2A12

30. What should you do before calling CQ?

T1B02

31. Which amateurs may contact the International Space Station (ISS) on VHF bands?

T5C06

32. What does the abbreviation "RF" mean?

T3B07

33. In addition to frequency, which of the following is used to identify amateur radio bands?

T8D02

34. What is a "talkgroup" on a DMR repeater?

T6A03

35. What electrical parameter is controlled by a potentiometer?