Practice Exam

Element 2: Technician (Expires June 30)

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T0B11

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

T7A08

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

T1F07

3. Which of the following restrictions apply when a non-licensed person is allowed to speak to a foreign station using a station under the control of a licensed amateur operator?

T1E03

4. Who must designate the station control operator?

T5C11

5. How much current is required to deliver 120 watts at a voltage of 12 volts DC?

T5B10

6. Which decibel value most closely represents a power decrease from 12 watts to 3 watts?

T9A08

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

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T6C07

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

T1B10

9. Where may SSB phone be used in amateur bands above 50 MHz?

T0C06

10. Which of the following is an acceptable method to determine whether your station complies with FCC RF exposure regulations?

T1A10

11. What is the Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES)?

T9B04

12. What is the major function of an antenna tuner (antenna coupler)?

T2C06

13. What is the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES)?

T4A10

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

T0A01

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

T6A04

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

T8C05

17. What is a grid locator?

T8D13

18. What is FT8?

T6B04

19. Which of the following components can consist of three regions of semiconductor material?

T1D02

20. Under which of the following circumstances are one-way transmissions by an amateur station prohibited?

T3C11

21. Why is the radio horizon for VHF and UHF signals more distant than the visual horizon?

T8A05

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

T4B08

23. What is the advantage of having multiple receive bandwidth choices on a multimode transceiver?

T3B01

24. What is the relationship between the electric and magnetic fields of an electromagnetic wave?

T7B08

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

T7C04

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

T3A02

27. What is the effect of vegetation on UHF and microwave signals?

T6D06

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

T7D04

29. Which instrument is used to measure electric current?

T1C04

30. What may happen if the FCC is unable to reach you by email?

T2B09

31. Why are simplex channels designated in the VHF/UHF band plans?

T5A08

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

T5D14

33. In which type of circuit is voltage the same across all components?

T2A05

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

T8B09

35. What causes spin fading of satellite signals?