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. - T0A04

What is the purpose of a fuse in an electrical circuit?

Select	Answer
A	To prevent power supply ripple from damaging a component
B	To limit current to prevent shocks
C	To remove power in case of overload
D	All these choices are correct

2. - T0B11

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

Select	Answer
A	Local electrical codes
B	UL recommended practices
C	FAA tower lighting regulations
D	FCC Part 97 rules

3. - T0C08

Which of the following actions can reduce exposure to RF radiation?

Select	Answer
A	Relocate the transmitter
B	All these choices are correct
C	Relocate antennas
D	Increase the duty cycle

4. - T1A05

What proves that the FCC has issued an operator/primary license grant?

Select	Answer
A	An email notification from the NCVEC granting the license
B	The license appears in the FCC ULS database
C	A printed copy of the certificate of successful completion of examination
D	All these choices are correct

5. - T1B01

Which of the following frequency ranges are available for phone operation by Technician licensees?

Select	Answer
A	28.500 MHz to 28.600 MHz
B	28.050 MHz to 28.150 MHz
C	28.100 MHz to 28.300 MHz
D	28.300 MHz to 28.500 MHz

6. - T1C04

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

Select	Answer
A	Fine and suspension of operator license
B	Revocation of the station license or suspension of the operator license
C	Revocation of access to the license record in the FCC system
D	Nothing; there is no such requirement

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

8. - T1E08

Which of the following is an example of automatic control?

Select	Answer
A	Using a computer or other device to identify automatically
B	Using a computer or other device to send CW automatically
C	Controlling a station over the internet
D	Repeater operation

9. - T1F11

Which of the following is a requirement for the issuance of a club station license grant?

Select	Answer
A	The club must have at least four members
B	The club must be registered with the American Radio Relay League
C	All these choices are correct
D	The trustee must have an Amateur Extra Class operator license grant

10. - T2A07

What is meant by "repeater offset”?

Select	Answer
A	The difference between a repeater’s transmit and receive frequencies
B	The repeater station identification is done on a separate frequency
C	The number of simultaneous transmit frequencies used by a repeater
D	The repeater has a time delay to prevent interference

11. - T2B02

What term describes the use of a sub-audible tone transmitted along with normal voice audio to open the squelch of a receiver?

Select	Answer
A	Carrier squelch
B	Tone burst
C	DTMF
D	CTCSS

12. - T2C07

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

Select	Answer
A	When first responding to the net control station, transmit your call sign, name, and address as in the FCC database
B	Unless you are reporting an emergency, transmit only when directed by the net control station
C	All these choices are correct
D	Record the time of each of your transmissions

13. - T3A11

Which region of the atmosphere can refract or bend HF and VHF radio waves?

Select	Answer
A	The ionosphere
B	The stratosphere
C	The mesosphere
D	The troposphere

14. - T3B02

What property of a radio wave defines its polarization?

Select	Answer
A	The ratio of the velocity to the wavelength
B	The ratio of the energy in the magnetic field to the energy in the electric field
C	The orientation of the electric field
D	The orientation of the magnetic field

15. - T3C05

Which of the following effects may allow radio signals to travel beyond obstructions between the transmitting and receiving stations?

Select	Answer
A	Knife-edge diffraction
B	Faraday rotation
C	Doppler shift
D	Quantum tunneling

16. - T4A08

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

Select	Answer
A	Twisted-pair cable
B	Copper braid removed from coaxial cable
C	Steel wire
D	Flat copper strap

17. - T4B09

How is a specific group of stations selected on a digital voice transceiver?

Select	Answer
A	By retrieving the frequencies from transceiver memory
B	By enabling the group’s CTCSS tone
C	By activating automatic identification
D	By entering the group’s identification code

18. - T5A02

Electrical power is measured in which of the following units?

Select	Answer
A	Watts
B	Amperes
C	Watt-hours
D	Volts

19. - T5B01

How many milliamperes is 1.5 amperes?

Select	Answer
A	15 milliamperes
B	1500 milliamperes
C	15,000 milliamperes
D	150 milliamperes

20. - T5C02

What is the unit of capacitance?

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

21. - T5D12

What is the voltage across a 10-ohm resistor if a current of 2 amperes flows through it?

Select	Answer
A	12 volts
B	8 volts
C	20 volts
D	0.2 volts

22. - T6A12

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

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

23. - T6B01

Which is true about forward voltage drop in a diode?

Select	Answer
A	It is lower in some diode types than in others
B	It is proportional to peak inverse voltage
C	It has no impact on the voltage delivered to the load
D	It indicates that the diode is defective

24. - T6C12

Which of the following is accurately represented in electrical schematics?

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

25. - T6D07

Which of the following is commonly used as a visual indicator?

Select	Answer
A	Bipolar transistor
B	Zener diode
C	FET
D	LED

26. - T7A03

Which of the following is used to convert a signal from one frequency to another?

Select	Answer
A	Mixer
B	Amplifier
C	Inverter
D	Phase splitter

27. - T7B05

How can fundamental overload of a non-amateur radio or TV receiver by an amateur signal be reduced or eliminated?

Select	Answer
A	Switch the transmitter to a narrow-band mode
B	Switch the transmitter from FM to SSB
C	Block the interfering signal with a filter on the amateur transmitter
D	Block the amateur signal with a filter at the antenna input of the affected receiver

28. - T7C07

What happens to power lost in a feed line?

Select	Answer
A	It is radiated as harmonics
B	It distorts the signal
C	It is converted into heat
D	It increases the SWR

29. - T7D10

What reading indicates that an ohmmeter is connected across a large, discharged capacitor?

Select	Answer
A	Increasing resistance with time
B	Decreasing resistance with time
C	Alternating between open and short circuit
D	Steady full-scale reading

30. - T8A05

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

Select	Answer
A	Slow-scan TV
B	CW
C	FM voice
D	SSB voice

31. - T8B05

What is a satellite beacon?

Select	Answer
A	A transmission from a satellite that contains status information
B	An indicator light that shows where to point your antenna
C	A reflective surface on the satellite
D	The primary transmit antenna on the satellite

32. - T8C03

What operating activity involves contacting as many stations as possible during a specified period?

Select	Answer
A	Contesting
B	Net operations
C	Public service events
D	Simulated emergency exercises

33. - T8D10

Which of the following operating activities is supported by digital mode software in the WSJT-X software suite?

Select	Answer
A	Weak signal propagation beacons
B	All these choices are correct
C	Earth-Moon-Earth
D	Meteor scatter

34. - T9A10

In which direction does a half-wave dipole antenna radiate the strongest signal?

Select	Answer
A	In the direction of the feed line
B	Equally in all directions
C	Off the ends of the antenna
D	Broadside to the antenna

35. - T9B12

What is standing wave ratio (SWR)?

Select	Answer
A	The transmitter efficiency ratio
B	A measure of how well a load is matched to a transmission line
C	An indication of the quality of your station’s ground connection
D	The ratio of amplifier power output to input

Figure T-2