Practice Exam

Element 2: Technician

T7C08

1. Which instrument can be used to determine SWR?

T7D01

2. Which instrument would you use to measure electric potential?

T0A01

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

T1F04

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

T8C04

5. Which of the following is good procedure when contacting another station in a contest?

T3B05

6. What is the relationship between wavelength and frequency?

T2B04

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

T0B09

8. Why should you avoid attaching an antenna to a utility pole?

T2A01

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

T6B07

10. What causes a light-emitting diode (LED) to emit light?

T6A03

11. What electrical parameter is controlled by a potentiometer?

T8B08

12. What is meant by the statement that a satellite is operating in U/V mode?

T1E04

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

T1D03

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

T1A06

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

T9B11

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

T4B03

17. How is squelch adjusted so that a weak FM signal can be heard?

T7A08

18. Which of the following describes combining speech with an RF carrier signal?

T8D05

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

T7B03

20. Which of the following can cause radio frequency interference?

T5B06

21. Which is equal to 3000 milliamperes?

T5D08

22. What is the current through a 100-ohm resistor connected across 200 volts?

T3C06

23. 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?

T1B03

24. Which frequency is in the 6 meter amateur band?

T5C02

25. What is the unit of capacitance?

T3A09

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

T9A05

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

T6D11

28. Which of the following is a resonant or tuned circuit?

T2C07

29. Which of the following is standard practice when you participate in a net?

T5A04

30. What are the units of electrical resistance?

T0C05

31. Why do exposure limits vary with frequency?

T8A06

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

T4A08

33. Which of the following conductors is preferred for bonding at RF?

T1C01

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

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T6C08

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