Practice Exam

T1F11

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

• A. The club must have at least four members
• B. The trustee must have an Amateur Extra Class operator license grant
• C. All these choices are correct
• D. The club must be registered with the American Radio Relay League

T5A04

2. What are the units of electrical resistance?

• A. Siemens
• B. Ohms
• C. Mhos
• D. Coulombs

T8D04

3. What type of transmission is indicated by the term "NTSC?"

• A. A frame compression scheme for TV signals
• B. A Normal Transmission mode in Static Circuit
• C. An analog fast-scan color TV signal
• D. A special mode for satellite uplink

T1B05

4. How may amateurs use the 219 to 220 MHz segment of 1.25 meter band?

• A. Fast-scan television only
• B. Emergency traffic only
• C. Fixed digital message forwarding systems only
• D. Spread spectrum only

T7A04

5. Which term describes the ability of a receiver to discriminate between multiple signals?

• A. Discrimination ratio
• B. Sensitivity
• C. Harmonic distortion
• D. Selectivity

T1D04

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

• A. When transmissions are limited to less than three minutes per hour
• B. When the music is transmitted above 1280 MHz
• C. When the music produces no spurious emissions
• D. When incidental to an authorized retransmission of manned spacecraft communications

T2C11

7. What is meant by "check" in a radiogram header?

• A. A list of stations that have relayed the message
• B. The call sign of the originating station
• C. The number of words or word equivalents in the text portion of the message
• D. A box on the message form that indicates that the message was received and/or relayed

T3B05

8. What is the relationship between wavelength and frequency?

• A. Wavelength and frequency increase as path length increases
• B. Wavelength gets shorter as frequency increases
• C. Wavelength and frequency are unrelated
• D. Wavelength gets longer as frequency increases

T6D02

9. What is a relay?

• A. A pass transistor
• B. A current controlled amplifier
• C. An inverting amplifier
• D. An electrically-controlled switch

T0C10

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

• A. It takes into account the antenna feed line loss
• B. It affects the peak exposure to radiation
• C. It takes into account the thermal effects of the final amplifier
• D. It affects the average exposure to radiation

T1A07

11. What is the FCC Part 97 definition of a space station?

• A. Any satellite orbiting Earth
• B. An amateur station located more than 50 km above Earth's surface
• C. A manned satellite orbiting Earth
• D. An amateur station using amateur radio satellites for relay of signals

T6B02

12. What electronic component allows current to flow in only one direction?

• A. Fuse
• B. Diode
• C. Resistor
• D. Driven element

T8C06

13. How is over the air access to IRLP nodes accomplished?

• A. By entering the proper internet password
• B. By obtaining a password that is sent via voice to the node
• C. By using DTMF signals
• D. By using CTCSS tone codes

T6A05

14. What type of electrical component consists of conductive surfaces separated by an insulator?

• A. Capacitor
• B. Resistor
• C. Potentiometer
• D. Oscillator

T1C10

15. How soon after passing the examination for your first amateur radio license may you transmit on the amateur radio bands?

• A. Immediately on receiving your Certificate of Successful Completion of Examination (CSCE)
• B. As soon as you receive your license in the mail from the FCC
• C. As soon as your operator/station license grant appears in the FCC's license database
• D. As soon as your operator/station license grant appears on the ARRL website

T3C07

16. What band is best suited for communicating via meteor scatter?

• A. 6 meters
• B. 70 centimeters
• C. 2 meters
• D. 33 centimeters

T4B06

17. Which of the following controls could be used if the voice pitch of a single-sideband signal returning to your CQ call seems too high or low?

• A. The AGC or limiter
• B. The tone squelch
• C. The RIT or Clarifier
• D. The bandwidth selection

T8A04

18. Which type of modulation is commonly used for VHF and UHF voice repeaters?

• A. FM or PM
• B. SSB
• C. PSK
• D. AM

T9B12

19. What is standing wave ratio (SWR)?

• A. The transmitter efficiency ratio
• B. The ratio of amplifier power output to input
• C. An indication of the quality of your station's ground connection
• D. A measure of how well a load is matched to a transmission line

T5B05

20. Which is equal to 500 milliwatts?

• A. 50 watts
• B. 0.02 watts
• C. 0.5 watts
• D. 5 watts

T1E09

21. Which of the following are required for remote control operation?

• A. The control operator must indirectly manipulate the controls
• B. All these choices are correct
• C. A control operator is required at all times
• D. The control operator must be at the control point

T2A08

22. What is the meaning of the procedural signal "CQ"?

• A. Call on the quarter hour
• B. Calling any station
• C. Test transmission, no reply expected
• D. Only the called station should transmit

T0B01

23. Which of the following is good practice when installing ground wires on a tower for lightning protection?

• A. Ensure that connections are short and direct
• B. Put a drip loop in the ground connection to prevent water damage to the ground system
• C. All these choices are correct
• D. Make sure all ground wire bends are right angles

T0A04

24. What is the purpose of a fuse in an electrical circuit?

• A. All these choices are correct
• B. To remove power in case of overload
• C. To prevent power supply ripple from damaging a component
• D. To limit current to prevent shocks

T3A04

25. What happens when antennas at opposite ends of a VHF or UHF line of sight radio link are not using the same polarization?

• A. Signals have an echo effect
• B. Nothing significant will happen
• C. The modulation sidebands might become inverted
• D. Received signal strength is reduced

T8B06

26. Which of the following are inputs to a satellite tracking program?

• A. The last observed time of zero Doppler shift
• B. All these choices are correct
• C. The satellite transmitted power
• D. The Keplerian elements

T5D03

27. What formula is used to calculate resistance in a circuit?

• A. R = E - I
• B. R = E x I
• C. R = E + I
• D. R = E / I

T2B03

28. Which of the following describes a linked repeater network?

• A. Multiple repeaters with the same control operator
• B. A network of repeaters in which signals received by one repeater are transmitted by all the repeaters in the network
• C. A single repeater with more than one receiver
• D. A system of repeaters linked by APRS

T4A09

29. How can you determine the length of time that equipment can be powered from a battery?

• A. Divide the battery ampere-hour rating by the average current draw of the equipment
• B. Divide the watt-hour rating of the battery by the peak power consumption of the equipment
• C. Multiply the watts per hour consumed by the equipment by the battery power rating
• D. Multiply the square of the current rating of the battery by the input resistance of the equipment

T7D04

30. Which instrument is used to measure electric current?

• A. A voltmeter
• B. An ammeter
• C. An electrometer
• D. An ohmmeter

T7B10

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

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

T7C02

32. Which of the following is used to determine if an antenna is resonant at the desired operating frequency?

• A. A VTVM
• B. An antenna analyzer
• C. A Q meter
• D. A frequency counter

T6C11

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

• A. Antenna
• B. Transmitter
• C. Ground
• D. Dummy load

T9A06

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

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

T5C11

35. How much current is required to deliver 120 watts at a voltage of 12 volts DC?

• A. 12 amperes
• B. 132 amperes
• C. 10 amperes
• D. 0.1 amperes