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| Q 1: | What precaution should you take if you install an indoor transmitting antenna? |
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| A. Locate the antenna close to your operating position to minimize feed line radiation . |
| B. Position the antenna along the edge of a wall to reduce parasitic radiation . |
| C. Make sure that MPE limits are not exceeded in occupied areas . |
| D. No special precautions are necessary if SSB and CW are the only modes used . |
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| Q 2: | Why is it not safe to use soldered joints with the wires that connect the base of a tower to a system of ground rods? |
| | (G0B09) |
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| A. The resistance of solder is too high. |
| B. Solder flux will prevent a low conductivity connection. |
| C. Solder has too high a dielectric constant to provide adequate lightning protection. |
| D. A soldered joint will likely be destroyed by the heat of a lightning strike. |
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| Q 3: | What must you do if, when operating on either the 30 or 60 meter bands, a station in the primary service interferes with your contact? |
| | (G1A15) |
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| A. Notify the FCC's regional Engineer in Charge of the interference . |
| B. Increase your transmitter's power to overcome the interference . |
| C. Attempt to contact the station and request that it stop the interference . |
| D. Stop transmitting at once and/or move to a clear frequency. |
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| Q 4: | What restrictions may the FCC place on an amateur station that is causing interference to a broadcast receiver of good engineering design? |
| | (G1B13) |
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| A. Restrict the amateur station operation to times other than 8 pm to 10:30 pm local time every day, as well as on Sundays from 10:30 am to 1 pm local time. |
| B. Restrict the amateur station from operating at times requested by the owner of the receiver. |
| C. Restrict the amateur station to operation only during RACES drills . |
| D. Restrict the amateur station from operating at any time . |
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| Q 5: | What is the maximum symbol rate permitted for RTTY or data emission transmissions on the 6 and 2 meter bands? |
| | (G1C11) |
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| A. 56 kilobaud . |
| B. 19.6 kilobaud . |
| C. 1200 baud . |
| D. 300 baud . |
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| Q 6: | What document must be issued to a person that passes an exam element? |
| | (G1D08) |
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| A. FCC form 605. |
| B. CSCE. |
| C. CCSA. |
| D. NCVEC form 605. |
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| Q 7: | Which of the following conditions require an amateur radio station to take specific steps to avoid harmful interference to other users or facilities? |
| | (G1E04) |
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| A. When operating within one mile of an FCC Monitoring Station. |
| B. When using a band where the amateur service is secondary. |
| C. When a station is transmitting spread spectrum emissions. |
| D. All of these answers are correct . |
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| Q 8: | What is the recommended way to break into a conversation when using phone? |
| | (G2A12) |
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| A. Say "QRZ" several times followed by your call sign. |
| B. Say your call sign during a break between transmissions from the other stations. |
| C. Say "Break" "Break" "Break" and wait for a response. |
| D. Say "CQ" followed by the call sign of either station. |
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| Q 9: | What is a practical way to avoid harmful interference when selecting a frequency to call CQ using phone? |
| | (G2B12) |
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| A. Ask if the frequency is in use, say your callsign, and listen for a response . |
| B. Keep your CQ to less than 2 minutes in length to avoid interference to contacts that may be in progress. |
| C. Listen for 2 minutes before calling CQ to avoid interference to contacts that may be in progress . |
| D. Call CQ at low power first and if there is no indication of interference, increase power as necessary . |
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| Q 10: | When may the FCC restrict normal frequency operations of amateur stations participating in RACES? |
| | (G2C03) |
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| A. When they declare a temporary state of communication emergency. |
| B. When they seize your equipment for use in disaster communications. |
| C. Only when all amateur stations are instructed to stop transmitting. |
| D. When the President's War Emergency Powers have been invoked. |
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| Q 11: | How is a directional antenna pointed when making a "long-path" contact with another station? |
| | (G2D06) |
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| A. Toward the rising sun . |
| B. Along the Gray Line . |
| C. 180 degrees from its short-path heading. |
| D. Toward the North. |
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| Q 12: | What does the abbreviation "MFSK" stand for? |
| | (G2E11) |
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| A. Manual Frequency Shift Keying. |
| B. Multi (or Multiple) Frequency Shift Keying. |
| C. Manual Frequency Sideband Keying. |
| D. Multi (or Multiple) Frequency Sideband Keying . |
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| Q 13: | What should you do if a CW station sends "QRS" when using Morse code? |
| | (G2F02) |
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| A. Send slower. |
| B. Change frequency. |
| C. Increase your power. |
| D. Repeat everything twice.. |
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| Q 14: | What is the A-index? |
| | (G3A13) |
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| A. An index of the relative position of sunspots on the surface of the sun . |
| B. The amount of polarization of the sun's electric field. |
| C. An indicator of the long term stability of the Earth's geomagnetic field. |
| D. An index of solar radio flux measured at Boulder, Colorado . |
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| Q 15: | What is the maximum distance along the Earth's surface that is normally covered in one hop using the E region? |
| | (G3B10) |
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| A. 180 miles . |
| B. 1,200 miles . |
| C. 2,500 miles . |
| D. 12,000 miles . |
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| Q 16: | Why are HF scatter signals in the skip zone usually weak? |
| | (G3C08) |
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| A. Only a small part of the signal energy is scattered into the skip zone . |
| B. Signals are scattered from the troposphere which is not a good reflector . |
| C. Propagation is through ground waves which absorb most of the signal energy . |
| D. Propagations is through ducts in F region which absorb most of the energy . |
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| Q 17: | What type of transmitter performance does a two-tone test analyze? |
| | (G4A11) |
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| A. Linearity . |
| B. Carrier and undesired sideband suppression . |
| C. Percentage of frequency modulation . |
| D. Percentage of carrier phase shift . |
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| Q 18: | Which of the following might be a use for a field strength meter? |
| | (G4B11) |
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| A. Close-in radio direction-finding . |
| B. A modulation monitor for a frequency or phase modulation transmitter . |
| C. An overmodulation indicator for a SSB transmitter . |
| D. A keying indicator for a RTTY or packet transmitter . |
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| Q 19: | Which of the following is covered in the National Electrical Code? |
| | (G4C10) |
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| A. Acceptable bandwidth limits. |
| B. Acceptable modulation limits . |
| C. Electrical safety inside the ham shack . |
| D. RF exposure limits of the human body . |
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| Q 20: | Which of the following describes how a speech processor affects a transmitted single sideband signal? |
| | (G4D02) |
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| A. It increases the peak power. |
| B. It increases the average power. |
| C. It reduces harmonic distortion. |
| D. It reduces intermodulation distortion. |
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| Q 21: | Why would it be unwise to power your station by back feeding the output of a gasoline generator into your house wiring by connecting the generator through an AC wall outlet? |
| | (G4E13) |
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| A. It might present a hazard for electric company workers . |
| B. It is prone to RF interference . |
| C. It may disconnect your RF ground . |
| D. None of the above; this is an excellent expedient. |
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| Q 22: | Which of the following describes one method of impedance matching between two AC circuits? |
| | (G5A14) |
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| A. Insert an LC network between the two circuits. |
| B. Reduce the power output of the first circuit. |
| C. Increase the power output of the first circuit. |
| D. Insert a circulator between the two circuits. |
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| Q 23: | How many watts of electrical power are used if 400 VDC is supplied to an 800-ohm load? |
| | (G5B03) |
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| A. 0.5 watts . |
| B. 200 watts . |
| C. 400 watts . |
| D. 3200 watts. |
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| Q 24: | What causes a voltage to appear across the secondary winding of a transformer when an AC voltage source is connected across its primary winding? |
| | (G5C01) |
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| A. Capacitive coupling . |
| B. Displacement current coupling . |
| C. Mutual inductance . |
| D. Mutual capacitance. |
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| Q 25: | What will happen to the resistance if the temperature of a carbon resistor is increased? |
| | (G6A01) |
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| A. It will increase by 20% for every 10 degrees centigrade . |
| B. It will stay the same . |
| C. It will change depending on the resistor's temperature coefficient rating . |
| D. It will become time dependent . |
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| Q 26: | Which of the following is a rechargeable battery? |
| | (G6B16) |
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| A. Carbon-zinc. |
| B. Silver oxide. |
| C. Nickel Metal Hydride. |
| D. Mercury. |
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| Q 27: | Which type of integrated circuit is an operational amplifier? |
| | (G6C06) |
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| A. Digital . |
| B. MMIC. |
| C. Programmable. |
| D. Analog. |
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| Q 28: | What is the output waveform of an unfiltered full-wave rectifier connected to a resistive load? |
| | (G7A18) |
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| A. A series of DC pulses at twice the frequency of the AC input . |
| B. A series of DC pulses at the same frequency as the AC input . |
| C. A sine wave at half the frequency of the AC input . |
| D. A steady DC voltage . |
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| Q 29: | What are the basic components of virtually all oscillators? |
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| A. An amplifier and a divider. |
| B. A frequency multiplier and a mixer. |
| C. A circulator and a filter operating in a feed-forward loop. |
| D. A filter and an amplifier operating in a feedback loop . |
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| Q 30: | Which of the following phone emissions uses the narrowest frequency bandwidth? |
| | (G8A07) |
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| A. Single sideband . |
| B. Double sideband . |
| C. Phase modulation . |
| D. Frequency modulation . |
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| Q 31: | What part of the 20 meter band is most commonly used for PSK31 operation? |
| | (G8B11) |
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| A. At the bottom of the slow-scan TV segment, near 14.230 MHz. |
| B. At the top of the SSB phone segment, near 14.325 MHz. |
| C. In the middle of the CW segment, near 14.100 MHz. |
| D. Below the RTTY segment, near 14.070 MHz. |
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| Q 32: | What would be the SWR if you feed a folded dipole antenna that has a 300-ohm feed-point impedance with 50-ohm coaxial cable? |
| | (G9A13) |
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| A. 1.5:1 . |
| B. 3:1 . |
| C. 6:1 . |
| D. You cannot determine SWR from impedance values . |
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| Q 33: | What is an advantage of downward sloping radials on a ground-plane antenna? |
| | (G9B02) |
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| A. They lower the radiation angle . |
| B. They bring the feed-point impedance closer to 300 ohms . |
| C. They increase the radiation angle . |
| D. They can be adjusted to bring the feed-point impedance closer to 50 ohms . |
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| Q 34: | Which of the following describes a common method for insulating the driven element of a Yagi antenna from the metal boom when using a gamma match? |
| | (G9C12) |
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| A. Support the driven element with ceramic standoff insulators. |
| B. Insert a high impedance transformer at the driven element. |
| C. Insert a high voltage balun at the driven element. |
| D. None of these answers are correct. No insulation is needed. |
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| Q 35: | At what height above ground is an NVIS antenna typically installed? |
| | (G9D03) |
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| A. As close to one-half wave as possible. |
| B. As close to one wavelength as possible. |
| C. Height is not critical as long as significantly more than 1/2 wavelength. |
| D. Between 1/10 and 1/4 wavelength. |
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