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. - T0A12

Which of the following precautions should be taken when measuring high voltages with a voltmeter?

Select	Answer
A	Ensure that the voltmeter is set to the correct frequency
B	Ensure that the voltmeter has very low impedance
C	Ensure that the voltmeter and leads are rated for use at the voltages to be measured
D	Ensure that the circuit is grounded through the voltmeter

2. - T0B02

What is required when climbing an antenna tower?

Select	Answer
A	Have sufficient training on safe tower climbing techniques
B	Always wear an approved climbing harness
C	Use appropriate tie-off to the tower at all times
D	All these choices are correct

3. - T0C04

What factors affect the RF exposure of people near an amateur station antenna?

Select	Answer
A	Frequency and power level of the RF field
B	Distance from the antenna to a person
C	Radiation pattern of the antenna
D	All these choices are correct

4. - T1A04

How many operator/primary station license grants may be held by any one person?

Select	Answer
A	One for each permanent station location from which the person plans to operate
B	One for each band on which the person plans to operate
C	No more than two
D	One

5. - T1B10

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

Select	Answer
A	Only on repeaters
B	On any band if the power is limited to 25 watts
C	In at least some segment of all these bands
D	Only in sub-bands allocated to General class or higher licensees

6. - T1C02

Who may select a desired call sign under the vanity call sign rules?

Select	Answer
A	Any licensed amateur
B	Only a licensed amateur who has been licensed continuously for more than 10 years
C	Only a licensed amateur with an Amateur Extra Class license
D	Only a licensed amateur with a General or Amateur Extra Class license

7. - T1D05

When may amateur radio operators use their stations to notify other amateurs of the availability of equipment for sale or trade?

Select	Answer
A	When no profit is made on the sale
B	When the equipment is not the personal property of either the station licensee, or the control operator, or their close relatives
C	Never
D	When selling amateur radio equipment and not on a regular basis

8. - T1E07

When the control operator is not the station licensee, who is responsible for the proper operation of the station?

Select	Answer
A	All licensed amateurs who are present at the operation
B	The control operator and the station licensee
C	Only the control operator
D	Only the station licensee

9. - T1F08

What is the definition of third party communications?

Select	Answer
A	Operation when the transmitting equipment is licensed to a person other than the control operator
B	Temporary authorization for an unlicensed person to transmit on the amateur bands for technical experiments
C	Amateur radio communications where three stations are in communications with one another
D	A message from a control operator to another amateur station control operator on behalf of another person

10. - T2A02

What is the national calling frequency for FM simplex operations in the 2 meter band?

Select	Answer
A	432.100 MHz
B	446.000 MHz
C	146.520 MHz
D	145.000 MHz

11. - T2B01

How is a VHF/UHF transceiver’s “reverse” function used?

Select	Answer
A	To listen on a repeater’s input frequency
B	To reduce power output
C	To listen on a repeater’s output frequency
D	To increase power output

12. - T2C08

Which of the following is a characteristic of good traffic handling?

Select	Answer
A	All these choices are correct
B	Making decisions as to whether messages are worthy of relay or delivery
C	Passing messages exactly as received
D	Ensuring that any newsworthy messages are relayed to the news media

13. - T3A01

Why do VHF signal strengths sometimes vary greatly when the antenna is moved only a few feet?

Select	Answer
A	Multipath propagation cancels or reinforces signals
B	The signal path encounters different concentrations of water vapor
C	VHF ionospheric propagation is very sensitive to path length
D	All these choices are correct

14. - T3B10

What frequency range is referred to as HF?

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

15. - T3C07

What band is best suited for communicating via meteor scatter?

Select	Answer
A	2 meters
B	70 centimeters
C	6 meters
D	33 centimeters

16. - T4A09

How can you determine the length of time that equipment can be powered from a battery?

Select	Answer
A	Divide the watt-hour rating of the battery by the peak power consumption of the equipment
B	Multiply the square of the current rating of the battery by the input resistance of the equipment
C	Divide the battery ampere-hour rating by the average current draw of the equipment
D	Multiply the watts per hour consumed by the equipment by the battery power rating

17. - T4B05

What does the scanning function of an FM transceiver do?

Select	Answer
A	Checks incoming signal deviation
B	Tunes through a range of frequencies to check for activity
C	Checks for messages left on a digital bulletin board
D	Prevents interference to nearby repeaters

18. - T5A12

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

Select	Answer
A	Pulse rate
B	Frequency
C	Speed
D	Wavelength

19. - T5B02

Which is equal to 1,500,000 hertz?

Select	Answer
A	1500 MHz
B	150 kHz
C	15 GHz
D	1500 kHz

20. - T5C02

What is the unit of capacitance?

Select	Answer
A	The farad
B	The henry
C	The volt
D	The ohm

21. - T5D02

What formula is used to calculate voltage in a circuit?

Select	Answer
A	E = I / R
B	E = I + R
C	E = I x R
D	E = I - R

22. - T6A05

What type of electrical component consists of conductive surfaces separated by an insulator?

Select	Answer
A	Capacitor
B	Resistor
C	Potentiometer
D	Oscillator

23. - T6B04

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

Select	Answer
A	Alternator
B	Transistor
C	Pentagrid converter
D	Triode

24. - T6C10

What is component 3 in figure T-3?

Select	Answer
A	Variable inductor
B	Connector
C	Variable capacitor
D	Meter

25. - T6D04

Which of the following displays an electrical quantity as a numeric value?

Select	Answer
A	Potentiometer
B	Relay
C	Transistor
D	Meter

26. - T7A02

What is a transceiver?

Select	Answer
A	A device for matching feed line impedance to 50 ohms
B	A device that combines a receiver and transmitter
C	A device for automatically sending and decoding Morse code
D	A device for converting receiver and transmitter frequencies to another band

27. - T7B07

Which of the following can reduce overload of a VHF transceiver by a nearby commercial FM station?

Select	Answer
A	Using double-shielded coaxial cable
B	Installing bypass capacitors on the microphone cable
C	Installing an RF preamplifier
D	Installing a band-reject filter

28. - T7C08

Which instrument can be used to determine SWR?

Select	Answer
A	Directional wattmeter
B	Voltmeter
C	Iambic pentameter
D	Ohmmeter

29. - T7D02

How is a voltmeter connected to a component to measure applied voltage?

Select	Answer
A	In phase
B	In series
C	In quadrature
D	In parallel

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	Only one signal can be received at a time
C	All these choices are correct
D	Voice quality is poorer

31. - T8B12

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

Select	Answer
A	Your signal strength on the downlink should be about the same as the beacon
B	Listen for distortion on your downlink signal
C	All these choices are correct
D	Check your signal strength report in the telemetry data

32. - T8C06

How is over the air access to IRLP nodes accomplished?

Select	Answer
A	By entering the proper internet password
B	By obtaining a password that is sent via voice to the node
C	By using CTCSS tone codes
D	By using DTMF signals

33. - T8D09

What is CW?

Select	Answer
A	A digital mode used primarily on 2 meter FM
B	Another name for a Morse code transmission
C	A technique for coil winding
D	A type of electromagnetic propagation

34. - T9A03

Which of the following describes a simple dipole oriented parallel to Earth's surface?

Select	Answer
A	A horizontally polarized antenna
B	A vertically polarized antenna
C	A travelling-wave antenna
D	A ground-wave antenna

35. - T9B01

What is a benefit of low SWR?

Select	Answer
A	All these choices are correct
B	Reduced signal loss
C	Less antenna wear
D	Reduced television interference

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