Practice Exam

Element 2: Technician (Expires June 30)

T8D02

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

T3A07

2. What weather condition might decrease range at microwave frequencies?

T4A01

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

T6A03

4. What electrical parameter is controlled by a potentiometer?

T5B08

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

T6D02

6. What is a relay?

T2A10

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

T1F11

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

T7A11

9. Where is an RF preamplifier installed?

T8C01

10. Which of the following methods is used to locate sources of noise interference or jamming?

T1E07

11. When the control operator is not the station licensee, who is responsible for the proper operation of the station?

T0C01

12. What type of radiation are radio signals?

T5C03

13. What describes the ability to store energy in a magnetic field?

T9A08

14. What is the approximate length, in inches, of a quarter-wavelength vertical antenna for 146 MHz?

T0A02

15. What health hazard is presented by electrical current flowing through the body?

T0B03

16. Under what circumstances is it safe to climb a tower without a helper or observer?

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?

T5A04

18. What are the units of electrical resistance?

T2B06

19. What type of signaling uses pairs of audio tones?

T1C06

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

T2C09

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

T5D01

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

T8A02

23. What type of modulation is commonly used for VHF packet radio transmissions?

T9B11

24. Which of the following types of feed line has the lowest loss at VHF and UHF?

T7B10

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

T3C10

26. Which of the following bands may provide long-distance communications via the ionosphere's F region during the peak of the sunspot cycle?

T7C07

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

T7D11

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

T6B02

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

T1A03

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

T1B05

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

T3B09

32. What frequency range is referred to as UHF?

T1D04

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

T6C12

34. Which of the following is accurately represented in electrical schematics?

T8B06

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