Practice Exam

Element 2: Technician (Expires June 30)

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T4A02

1. Which of the following should be considered when selecting an accessory SWR meter?

T5D10

2. What is the voltage across a 2-ohm resistor if a current of 0.5 amperes flows through it?

T7B08

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

T1B11

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

T5C07

5. What is the abbreviation for megahertz?

T1F10

6. Who is accountable if a repeater inadvertently retransmits communications that violate the FCC rules?

T6A04

7. What electrical component stores energy in an electric field?

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T6C06

8. What is component 6 in figure T-2?

T5A12

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

T8B12

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

T3A09

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

T3C06

12. 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?

T1D03

13. When is it permissible to transmit messages encoded to obscure their meaning?

T2B02

14. What term describes the use of a sub-audible tone transmitted along with normal voice audio to open the squelch of a receiver?

T7A10

15. What device increases the transmitted output power from a transceiver?

T4B05

16. What does the scanning function of an FM transceiver do?

T8D09

17. What is CW?

T6D06

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

T2C10

19. What information is contained in the preamble of a formal traffic message?

T9B09

20. What can cause erratic changes in SWR?

T9A12

21. What is an advantage of a 5/8 wavelength whip antenna for VHF or UHF mobile service?

T2A01

22. What is a common repeater frequency offset in the 2 meter band?

T1C03

23. What types of international communications are an FCC-licensed amateur radio station permitted to make?

T1A03

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

T5B01

25. How many milliamperes is 1.5 amperes?

T0A10

26. What hazard is caused by charging or discharging a battery too quickly?

T7C06

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

T8A12

28. Which of the following is a disadvantage of FM compared with single sideband?

T6B05

29. What type of transistor has a gate, drain, and source?

T3B06

30. What is the formula for converting frequency to approximate wavelength in meters?

T8C08

31. What is the Internet Radio Linking Project (IRLP)?

T7D10

32. What reading indicates that an ohmmeter is connected across a large, discharged capacitor?

T0B11

33. Which of the following establishes grounding requirements for an amateur radio tower or antenna?

T1E04

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

T0C10

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