Practice Exam

Element 2: Technician (Expires June 30)

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T3B08

1. What frequency range is referred to as VHF?

T2B04

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

T7B10

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

T2C09

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

T1D01

5. With which countries are FCC-licensed amateur radio stations prohibited from exchanging communications?

T3A09

6. Which of the following results from the fact that signals propagated by the ionosphere are elliptically polarized?

T5A08

7. Which of the following is a good electrical insulator?

T6A11

8. Which of the following battery chemistries is not rechargeable?

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T6C04

9. What is component 3 in figure T-1?

T6B03

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

T0B02

11. What is required when climbing an antenna tower?

T4A10

12. What function is performed with a transceiver and a digital mode hot spot?

T9B09

13. What can cause erratic changes in SWR?

T6D01

14. Which of the following devices or circuits changes an alternating current into a varying direct current signal?

T8B11

15. Who may receive telemetry from a space station?

T8C10

16. What is required before using the EchoLink system?

T5B13

17. Which is equal to 2425 MHz?

T1B05

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

T7A03

19. Which of the following is used to convert a signal from one frequency to another?

T1E02

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

T1C01

21. For which license classes are new licenses currently available from the FCC?

T0A09

22. What should be done to all external ground rods or earth connections?

T7D07

23. Which of the following measurements are made using a multimeter?

T7C04

24. What reading on an SWR meter indicates a perfect impedance match between the antenna and the feed line?

T1A08

25. Which of the following entities recommends transmit/receive channels and other parameters for auxiliary and repeater stations?

T2A05

26. How should you respond to a station calling CQ?

T0C01

27. What type of radiation are radio signals?

T5C03

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

T3C04

29. Which of the following types of propagation is most commonly associated with occasional strong signals on the 10, 6, and 2 meter bands from beyond the radio horizon?

T5D03

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

T1F04

31. What language may you use for identification when operating in a phone sub-band?

T4B07

32. What does a DMR "code plug" contain?

T8D05

33. Which of the following is an application of APRS?

T9A05

34. Which of the following increases the resonant frequency of a dipole antenna?

T8A05

35. Which of the following types of signal has the narrowest bandwidth?