G0A12: What precaution should you take whenever you make adjustments or repairs to an antenna?

Ensure that you and the antenna structure are grounded

Wear a radiation badge

All of these choices are correct

G0B01: Which wire or wires in a four-conductor line cord should be attached to fuses or circuit breakers in a device operated from a 240-VAC single-phase source?

Only the neutral wire

Only the ground wire

All wires

G1A15: What is the appropriate action if, when operating on either the 30 or 60 meter bands, a station in the primary service interferes with your contact?

Notify the FCC's regional Engineer in Charge of the interference

Increase your transmitter's power to overcome the interference

Attempt to contact the station and request that it stop the interference

G1B06: When is an amateur station permitted to transmit secret codes?

During a declared communications emergency

Only when the information is of a routine, personal nature

Only with Special Temporary Authorization from the FCC

G1C04: Which of the following is a limitation on transmitter power on the 14 MHz band?

Power must be limited to 200 watts when transmitting between 14.100 MHz and 14.150 MHz

Power should be limited as necessary to avoid interference to another radio service on the frequency

Effective radiated power cannot exceed 3000 watts

G1D08: Which of the following criteria must be met for a non-U.S. citizen to be an accredited Volunteer Examiner?

The person must be a resident of the U.S. for a minimum of 5 years

The person's home citizenship must be in the ITU 2 region

None of these choices is correct; non-U.S. citizens cannot be volunteer examiners

G1E02: When may a 10 meter repeater retransmit the 2 meter signal from a station having a Technician Class control operator?

Under no circumstances

Only if the station on 10 meters is operating under a Special Temporary Authorization allowing such retransmission

Only during an FCC declared general state of communications emergency

G2A01: Which sideband is most commonly used for voice communications on frequencies of 14 MHz or higher?

Lower sideband

Vestigial sideband

Double sideband

G2B05: What is the customary minimum frequency separation between SSB signals under normal conditions?

Between 150 and 500 Hz

Approximately 6 kHz

Approximately 10 kHz

G2C09: What does the Q signal "QSL" mean?

Send slower

We have already confirmed by card

We have worked before

G2D11: Which HF antenna would be the best to use for minimizing interference?

A quarter-wave vertical antenna

An isotropic antenna

An omnidirectional antenna

G2E08: What segment of the 80 meter band is most commonly used for data transmissions?

3500 ' 3525 kHz

3700 ' 3750 kHz

3775 ' 3825 kHz

G3A09: What effect do high sunspot numbers have on radio communications?

High-frequency radio signals become weak and distorted

Frequencies above 300 MHz become usable for long-distance communication

Microwave communications become unstable

G3B04: What is a reliable way to determine if the Maximum Usable Frequency (MUF) is high enough to support skip propagation between your station and a distant location on frequencies between 14 and 30 MHz?

Send a series of dots on the band and listen for echoes from your signal

Check the strength of TV signals from Western Europe

Check the strength of signals in the MF AM broadcast band

G3C08: Why are HF scatter signals in the skip zone usually weak?

Signals are scattered from the magnetosphere which is not a good reflector

Propagation is through ground waves which absorb most of the signal energy

Propagations is through ducts in F region which absorb most of the energy

G4A10: What is the purpose of an electronic keyer?

Automatic transmit/receive switching

VOX operation

Computer interface for PSK and RTTY operation

G4B14: What is an instance in which the use of an instrument with analog readout may be preferred over an instrument with a numerical digital readout?

When testing logic circuits

When high precision is desired

When measuring the frequency of an oscillator

G4C13: Which of the following can perform automatic notching of interfering carriers?

Band-pass tuning

Balanced mixing

A noise limiter

G4D08: What frequency range is occupied by a 3 kHz LSB signal when the displayed carrier frequency is set to 7.178 MHz?

7.178 to 7.181 MHz

7.178 to 7.184 MHz

7.1765 to 7.1795 MHz

G4E07: Which of the following is the most likely to cause interfering signals to be heard in the receiver of an HF mobile installation in a recent model vehicle?

The battery charging system

The anti-lock braking system

The anti-theft circuitry

G5A01: What is impedance?

The electric charge stored by a capacitor

The inverse of resistance

The force of repulsion between two similar electric fields

G5B12: What would be the RMS voltage across a 50-ohm dummy load dissipating 1200 watts?

173 volts

346 volts

692 volts

G5C05: If three equal value resistors in parallel produce 50 ohms of resistance, and the same three resistors in series produce 450 ohms, what is the value of each resistor?

1500 ohms

90 ohms

175 ohms

G6A04: Which of the following is an advantage of an electrolytic capacitor?

Tight tolerance

Non-polarized

Inexpensive RF capacitor

G6B13: What is an advantage of the low internal resistance of nickel-cadmium batteries?

Long life

High voltage

Rapid recharge

G6C09: Which of the following is a characteristic of a liquid crystal display?

It offers a wide dynamic range

It has a wide viewing angle

All of these choices are correct

G7A08: Which of the following is an advantage of a switch-mode power supply as compared to a linear power supply?

Faster switching time makes higher output voltage possible

Fewer circuit components are required

All of these choices are correct

G7B14: Which of the following describes a linear amplifier?

Any RF power amplifier used in conjunction with an amateur transceiver

A Class C high efficiency amplifier

An amplifier used as a frequency multiplier

G7C01: Which of the following is used to process signals from the balanced modulator and send them to the mixer in a single-sideband phone transmitter?

Carrier oscillator

IF amplifier

RF amplifier

G8A02: What is the name of the process that changes the phase angle of an RF wave to convey information?

Phase convolution

Angle convolution

Radian inversion

G8B06: What is the total bandwidth of an FM-phone transmission having a 5 kHz deviation and a 3 kHz modulating frequency?

3 kHz

5 kHz

8 kHz

G9A13: What would be the SWR if you feed an antenna that has a 300-ohm feed-point impedance with 50-ohm coaxial cable?

1.5:1

3:1

You cannot determine SWR from impedance values

G9B05: How does antenna height affect the horizontal (azimuthal) radiation pattern of a horizontal dipole HF antenna?

If the antenna is too high, the pattern becomes unpredictable

Antenna height has no effect on the pattern

If the antenna is less than 1/2 wavelength high, radiation off the ends of the wire is eliminated

G9C15: Approximately how long is each side of a quad antenna reflector element?

Slightly less than 1/4 wavelength

Slightly less than 1/2 wavelength

Slightly more than 1/2 wavelength

G9D11: Which of the following is a disadvantage of multiband antennas?

They present low impedance on all design frequencies

They must be used with an antenna tuner

They must be fed with open wire line