US Amateur Radio - Technician (Element 2, 2022-2026) Practice Test

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US Amateur Radio - Technician (Element 2, 2022-2026) Practice Test

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1. - T0A07

Where should a lightning arrester be installed in a coaxial feed line?

Select	Answer
A	At the output connector of a transceiver
B	On a grounded panel near where feed lines enter the building
C	At the ac power service panel
D	At the antenna feed point

2. - T0B05

What is the purpose of a safety wire through a turnbuckle used to tension guy lines?

Select	Answer
A	Provide an ability to measure for proper tensioning
B	Prevent loosening of the turnbuckle from vibration
C	Provide a ground path for lightning strikes
D	Secure the guy line if the turnbuckle breaks

3. - T0C01

What type of radiation are radio signals?

Select	Answer
A	Ionizing radiation
B	Alpha radiation
C	Non-ionizing radiation
D	Gamma radiation

4. - T1A08

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

Select	Answer
A	FCC Regional Field Office
B	International Telecommunication Union
C	Volunteer Frequency Coordinator recognized by local amateurs
D	Frequency Spectrum Manager appointed by the FCC

5. - T1B02

Which amateurs may contact the International Space Station (ISS) on VHF bands?

Select	Answer
A	Any amateur holding a General class or higher license
B	Any amateur holding a Technician class or higher license
C	Any amateur holding a General class or higher license who has applied for and received approval from NASA
D	Any amateur holding a Technician class or higher license who has applied for and received approval from NASA

6. - T1C10

How soon after passing the examination for your first amateur radio license may you transmit on the amateur radio bands?

Select	Answer
A	As soon as you receive your license in the mail from the FCC
B	As soon as your operator/station license grant appears in the FCC’s license database
C	Immediately on receiving your Certificate of Successful Completion of Examination (CSCE)
D	As soon as your operator/station license grant appears on the ARRL website

7. - T1D02

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

Select	Answer
A	Telecommand or transmissions of telemetry
B	International Morse Code Practice
C	In all circumstances
D	Broadcasting

8. - T1E03

Who must designate the station control operator?

Select	Answer
A	The FCC
B	The frequency coordinator
C	Any licensed operator
D	The station licensee

9. - T1F07

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?

Select	Answer
A	The person must be a U.S. citizen
B	The foreign station must be in a country with which the U.S. has a third party agreement
C	All these choices are correct
D	The licensed control operator must do the station identification

10. - T2A09

Which of the following indicates that a station is listening on a repeater and looking for a contact?

Select	Answer
A	“QSY” followed by your call sign
B	“CQ CQ” followed by the repeater’s call sign
C	The station’s call sign followed by the word “monitoring”
D	The repeater call sign followed by the station’s call sign

11. - T2B07

How can you join a digital repeater’s “talkgroup”?

Select	Answer
A	Register your radio with the local FCC office
B	Program your radio with the group’s ID or code
C	Sign your call after the courtesy tone
D	Join the repeater owner’s club

12. - T2C04

What is RACES?

Select	Answer
A	An international radio experimentation society
B	An FCC part 97 amateur radio service for civil defense communications during national emergencies
C	An emergency organization combining amateur radio and citizens band operators and frequencies
D	A radio contest held in a short period, sometimes called a “sprint”

13. - T3A09

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

Select	Answer
A	FM voice is unusable
B	Digital modes are unusable
C	Either vertically or horizontally polarized antennas may be used for transmission or reception
D	Both the transmitting and receiving antennas must be of the same polarization

14. - T3B10

What frequency range is referred to as HF?

Select	Answer
A	3 to 30 MHz
B	300 to 3000 kHz
C	300 to 3000 MHz
D	30 to 300 MHz

15. - T3C02

What is a characteristic of HF communication compared with communications on VHF and higher frequencies?

Select	Answer
A	There is less atmospheric interference (static) on HF
B	HF antennas are generally smaller
C	HF accommodates wider bandwidth signals
D	Long-distance ionospheric propagation is far more common on HF

16. - T4A04

How are the transceiver audio input and output connected in a station configured to operate using FT8?

Select	Answer
A	To a computer running a terminal program and connected to a terminal node controller unit
B	To the audio input and output of a computer running WSJT-X software
C	To an FT8 conversion unit, a keyboard, and a computer monitor
D	To a computer connected to the FT8converter.com website

17. - T4B06

Which of the following controls could be used if the voice pitch of a single-sideband signal returning to your CQ call seems too high or low?

Select	Answer
A	The RIT or Clarifier
B	The tone squelch
C	The AGC or limiter
D	The bandwidth selection

18. - T5A01

Electrical current is measured in which of the following units?

Select	Answer
A	Watts
B	Ohms
C	Volts
D	Amperes

19. - T5B03

Which is equal to one kilovolt?

Select	Answer
A	One hundred volts
B	One one-thousandth of a volt
C	One thousand volts
D	One million volts

20. - T5C09

How much power is delivered by a voltage of 13.8 volts DC and a current of 10 amperes?

Select	Answer
A	0.7 watts
B	3.8 watts
C	23.8 watts
D	138 watts

21. - T5D13

In which type of circuit is DC current the same through all components?

Select	Answer
A	Parallel
B	Resonant
C	Series
D	Branch

22. - T6A12

What type of switch is represented by component 3 in figure T-2?

Select	Answer
A	Double-pole single-throw
B	Single-pole double-throw
C	Double-pole double-throw
D	Single-pole single-throw

23. - T6B04

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

Select	Answer
A	Alternator
B	Triode
C	Pentagrid converter
D	Transistor

24. - T6C12

Which of the following is accurately represented in electrical schematics?

Select	Answer
A	Physical appearance of components
B	All these choices are correct
C	Wire lengths
D	Component connections

25. - T6D02

What is a relay?

Select	Answer
A	A pass transistor
B	A current controlled amplifier
C	An inverting amplifier
D	An electrically-controlled switch

26. - T7A10

What device increases the transmitted output power from a transceiver?

Select	Answer
A	All these choices are correct
B	An RF power amplifier
C	An impedance network
D	A voltage divider

27. - T7B01

What can you do if you are told your FM handheld or mobile transceiver is over-deviating?

Select	Answer
A	Let the transceiver cool off
B	Change to a higher power level
C	Talk louder into the microphone
D	Talk farther away from the microphone

28. - T7C09

Which of the following causes failure of coaxial cables?

Select	Answer
A	Solder flux contamination
B	Moisture contamination
C	Rapid fluctuation in transmitter output power
D	Operation at 100% duty cycle for an extended period

29. - T7D07

Which of the following measurements are made using a multimeter?

Select	Answer
A	All these choices are correct
B	Impedance and reactance
C	Signal strength and noise
D	Voltage and resistance

30. - T8A12

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

Select	Answer
A	FM signals are harder to tune
B	Voice quality is poorer
C	All these choices are correct
D	Only one signal can be received at a time

31. - T8B10

What is a LEO satellite?

Select	Answer
A	A satellite in low energy operation mode
B	A highly elliptical orbit satellite
C	A sun synchronous satellite
D	A satellite in low earth orbit

32. - T8C11

What is an amateur radio station that connects other amateur stations to the internet?

Select	Answer
A	A repeater
B	A gateway
C	A digipeater
D	A beacon

33. - T8D07

Which of the following describes DMR?

Select	Answer
A	An automatic computer logging technique for hands-off logging when communicating while operating a vehicle
B	A technique for time-multiplexing two digital voice signals on a single 12.5 kHz repeater channel
C	A digital technique for transmitting on two repeater inputs simultaneously for automatic error correction
D	An automatic position tracking mode for FM mobiles communicating through repeaters

34. - T9A09

What is the approximate length, in inches, of a half-wavelength 6 meter dipole antenna?

Select	Answer
A	112
B	50
C	236
D	6

35. - T9B05

What happens as the frequency of a signal in coaxial cable is increased?

Select	Answer
A	The characteristic impedance increases
B	The loss decreases
C	The loss increases
D	The characteristic impedance decreases

Figure T-2