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. - T0A03

In the United States, what circuit does black wire insulation indicate in a three-wire 120 V cable?

Select	Answer
A	Hot
B	Equipment ground
C	Neutral
D	Black insulation is never used

2. - T0B11

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

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

3. - T0C07

What hazard is created by touching an antenna during a transmission?

Select	Answer
A	Electrocution
B	All these choices are correct
C	RF burn to skin
D	Radiation poisoning

4. - T1A01

Which of the following is part of the Basis and Purpose of the Amateur Radio Service?

Select	Answer
A	Providing personal radio communications for as many citizens as possible
B	Providing communications for international non-profit organizations
C	All these choices are correct
D	Advancing skills in the technical and communication phases of the radio art

5. - T1B12

Except for some specific restrictions, what is the maximum peak envelope power output for Technician class operators using frequencies above 30 MHz?

Select	Answer
A	1500 watts
B	500 watts
C	50 watts
D	100 watts

6. - T1C06

From which of the following locations may an FCC-licensed amateur station transmit?

Select	Answer
A	From within any country that is a member of the United Nations
B	From anywhere within International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Regions 2 and 3
C	From within any country that belongs to the International Telecommunication Union
D	From any vessel or craft located in international waters and documented or registered in the United States

7. - T1D11

When may an amateur station transmit without identifying on the air?

Select	Answer
A	When the transmissions are unmodulated
B	When transmitting signals to control model craft
C	When the transmissions are of a brief nature to make station adjustments
D	When the transmitted power level is below 1 watt

8. - T1E01

When may an amateur station transmit without a control operator?

Select	Answer
A	When using automatic control, such as in the case of a repeater
B	When the station licensee is away and another licensed amateur is using the station
C	When the transmitting station is an auxiliary station
D	Never

9. - T1F10

Who is accountable if a repeater inadvertently retransmits communications that violate the FCC rules?

Select	Answer
A	The owner of the repeater
B	Both the originating station and the repeater owner
C	The control operator of the repeater
D	The control operator of the originating station

10. - T2A09

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

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

11. - T2B04

Which of the following could be the reason you are unable to access a repeater whose output you can hear?

Select	Answer
A	All these choices are correct
B	You are using the wrong CTCSS tone
C	Improper transceiver offset
D	You are using the wrong DCS code

12. - T2C05

What does the term “traffic” refer to in net operation?

Select	Answer
A	Requests to activate the net by a served agency
B	Messages exchanged by net stations
C	The number of stations checking in and out of a net
D	Operation by mobile or portable stations

13. - T3A01

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

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

14. - T3B05

What is the relationship between wavelength and frequency?

Select	Answer
A	Wavelength gets shorter as frequency increases
B	Wavelength gets longer as frequency increases
C	Wavelength and frequency increase as path length increases
D	Wavelength and frequency are unrelated

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	Quantum tunneling
C	Faraday rotation
D	Doppler shift

16. - T4A11

Where should the negative power return of a mobile transceiver be connected in a vehicle?

Select	Answer
A	Through the transceiver’s mounting bracket
B	To any metal part of the vehicle
C	At the 12 volt battery chassis ground
D	At the antenna mount

17. - T4B11

Which of the following must be programmed into a D-STAR digital transceiver before transmitting?

Select	Answer
A	The codec type being used
B	Your output power
C	All these choices are correct
D	Your call sign

18. - T5A08

Which of the following is a good electrical insulator?

Select	Answer
A	Glass
B	Aluminum
C	Mercury
D	Copper

19. - T5B07

Which is equal to 3.525 MHz?

Select	Answer
A	0.003525 kHz
B	3525 kHz
C	35.25 kHz
D	3,525,000 kHz

20. - T5C04

What is the unit of inductance?

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

21. - T5D09

What is the current through a 24-ohm resistor connected across 240 volts?

Select	Answer
A	216 amperes
B	10 amperes
C	24,000 amperes
D	0.1 amperes

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	Double-pole single-throw
D	Single-pole single-throw

23. - T6B10

Which of the following can provide power gain?

Select	Answer
A	Resistor
B	Reactor
C	Transformer
D	Transistor

24. - T6C09

What is component 4 in figure T-2?

Select	Answer
A	Potentiometer
B	Transformer
C	Double-pole switch
D	Variable inductor

25. - T6D08

Which of the following is combined with an inductor to make a resonant circuit?

Select	Answer
A	Capacitor
B	Zener diode
C	Potentiometer
D	Resistor

26. - T7A05

What is the name of a circuit that generates a signal at a specific frequency?

Select	Answer
A	Low-pass filter
B	Reactance modulator
C	Oscillator
D	Phase modulator

27. - T7B11

What is a symptom of RF feedback in a transmitter or transceiver?

Select	Answer
A	The transmitter will not stay on the desired frequency
B	Frequent blowing of power supply fuses
C	Excessive SWR at the antenna connection
D	Reports of garbled, distorted, or unintelligible voice transmissions

28. - T7C01

What is the primary purpose of a dummy load?

Select	Answer
A	To improve the signal-to-noise ratio of a receiver
B	To improve the efficiency of an antenna
C	To prevent transmitting signals over the air when making tests
D	To prevent over-modulation of a transmitter

29. - T7D02

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

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

30. - T8A01

Which of the following is a form of amplitude modulation?

Select	Answer
A	Single sideband
B	Phase shift keying (PSK)
C	Packet radio
D	Spread spectrum

31. - T8B07

What is Doppler shift in reference to satellite communications?

Select	Answer
A	A special digital communications mode for some satellites
B	A change in the satellite orbit
C	A mode where the satellite receives signals on one band and transmits on another
D	An observed change in signal frequency caused by relative motion between the satellite and Earth station

32. - T8C03

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

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

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. - T9A04

What is a disadvantage of the short, flexible antenna supplied with most handheld radio transceivers, compared to a full-sized quarter-wave antenna?

Select	Answer
A	It transmits only circularly polarized signals
B	It has low efficiency
C	It is mechanically fragile
D	All these choices are correct

35. - T9B11

Which of the following types of feed line has the lowest loss at VHF and UHF?

Select	Answer
A	50-ohm flexible coax
B	75-ohm flexible coax
C	Multi-conductor unbalanced cable
D	Air-insulated hardline

Figure T-2