Practice Exam

Element 2: Technician (Expires June 30)

T4A05

1. Where should an RF power meter be installed?

T7B06

2. Which of the following actions should you take if a neighbor tells you that your station's transmissions are interfering with their radio or TV reception?

T6D03

3. Which of the following is a reason to use shielded wire?

T1E04

4. What determines the transmitting frequency privileges of an amateur station?

T8B02

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

T8C10

6. What is required before using the EchoLink system?

T4B11

7. Which of the following must be programmed into a D-STAR digital transceiver before transmitting?

T9A06

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

T0B02

9. What is required when climbing an antenna tower?

T1B11

10. What is the maximum peak envelope power output for Technician class operators in their HF band segments?

T1D10

11. How does the FCC define broadcasting for the Amateur Radio Service?

T6B01

12. Which is true about forward voltage drop in a diode?

T3A12

13. What is the effect of fog and rain on signals in the 10 meter and 6 meter bands?

T7C02

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

T1F09

15. What type of amateur station simultaneously retransmits the signal of another amateur station on a different channel or channels?

T5D07

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

T5C06

17. What does the abbreviation "RF" mean?

T0C07

18. What hazard is created by touching an antenna during a transmission?

T8A06

19. Which sideband is normally used for 10 meter HF, VHF, and UHF single-sideband communications?

T9B11

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

T7A11

21. Where is an RF preamplifier installed?

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T6C08

22. What is component 9 in figure T-2?

T5A04

23. What are the units of electrical resistance?

T1A06

24. What is the FCC Part 97 definition of a beacon?

T5B05

25. Which is equal to 500 milliwatts?

T0A01

26. Which of the following is a safety hazard of a 12-volt storage battery?

T7D03

27. When configured to measure current, how is a multimeter connected to a component?

T2C02

28. Which of the following are typical duties of a Net Control Station?

T2A06

29. Which of the following is required when making on-the-air test transmissions?

T8D13

30. What is FT8?

T3B09

31. What frequency range is referred to as UHF?

T3C06

32. What type of propagation is responsible for allowing over-the-horizon VHF and UHF communications to ranges of approximately 300 miles on a regular basis?

T6A02

33. What type of component is often used as an adjustable volume control?

T2B04

34. Which of the following could be the reason you are unable to access a repeater whose output you can hear?

T1C10

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