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

G0B12: What is the purpose of a transmitter power supply interlock?

To prevent unauthorized access to a transmitter

To guarantee that you cannot accidentally transmit out of band

To shut off the transmitter if too much current is drawn

G1A09: Which of the following frequencies is within the General Class portion of the 80 meter band?

1855 kHz

2560 kHz

3650 kHz

G1B11: How does the FCC require an amateur station to be operated in all respects not specifically covered by the Part 97 rules?

In conformance with the rules of the IARU

In conformance with Amateur Radio custom

All of these choices are correct

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

G1D04: Which of the following is a requirement for administering a Technician Class operator examination?

At least two VEC accredited General Class or higher VEs must be present

At least two General Class or higher VEs must be present, but only one need be VEC accredited

At least three VEs of Technician Class or higher must be present

G1E06: Which of the following applies in the event of interference between a coordinated repeater and an uncoordinated repeater?

The licensee of the coordinated repeater has primary responsibility to resolve the interference

Both repeater licensees share equal responsibility to resolve the interference

The frequency coordinator bears primary responsibility to resolve the interference

G2A08: Which of the following is a recommended way to break into a conversation when using phone?

Say "QRZ" several times followed by your call sign

Say "Break. Break. Break." and wait for a response

Say "CQ" followed by the call sign of either station

G2B06: What is a practical way to avoid harmful interference when selecting a frequency to call CQ on CW or phone?

Listen for 2 minutes before calling CQ

Send the letter "V" in Morse code several times and listen for a response

Send 'QSY' on CW or if using phone, announce 'the frequency is in use', then send your call and listen for a response

G2C08: What prosign is sent to indicate the end of a formal message when using CW?

SK

BK

KN

G2D10: What is QRP operation?

Remote piloted model control

Transmission using Quick Response Protocol

Traffic relay procedure net operation

G2E13: In the PACTOR protocol, what is meant by an NAK response to a transmitted packet?

The receiver is reporting the packet was received without error

The receiver is busy decoding the packet

The entire file has been received correctly

G3A06: What is a geomagnetic storm?

A sudden drop in the solar-flux index

A thunderstorm which affects radio propagation

Ripples in the ionosphere

G3B08: What does MUF stand for?

The Minimum Usable Frequency for communications between two points

The Minimum Usable Frequency during a 24 hour period

The Maximum Usable Frequency during a 24 hour period

G3C09: What type of radio wave propagation allows a signal to be detected at a distance too far for ground wave propagation but too near for normal sky-wave propagation?

Faraday rotation

Sporadic-E skip

Short-path skip

G4A12: Which of the following is a common use for the dual VFO feature on a transceiver?

To allow transmitting on two frequencies at once

To permit full duplex operation, that is transmitting and receiving at the same time

To facilitate computer interface

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

G4C11: Which of the following is one use for a Digital Signal Processor in an amateur station?

To provide adequate grounding

To increase antenna gain

To increase antenna bandwidth

G4D07: How much must the power output of a transmitter be raised to change the S- meter reading on a distant receiver from S8 to S9?

Approximately 1.5 times

Approximately 2 times

Approximately 8 times

G4E04: Why is it best NOT to draw the DC power for a 100-watt HF transceiver from an automobile's auxiliary power socket?

The socket is not wired with an RF-shielded power cable

The DC polarity of the socket is reversed from the polarity of modern HF

Drawing more than 50 watts from this socket could cause the engine to overheat

G5A13: Which of the following devices can be used for impedance matching at radio frequencies?

A transformer

A Pi-network

A length of transmission line

G5B06: What is the output PEP from a transmitter if an oscilloscope measures 200 volts peak-to-peak across a 50-ohm dummy load connected to the transmitter output?

1.4 watts

353.5 watts

400 watts

G5C13: Which of the following components should be added to a capacitor to increase the capacitance?

An inductor in series

A resistor in series

A capacitor in series

G6A07: Which of the following is a reason not to use wire-wound resistors in an RF circuit?

The resistor's tolerance value would not be adequate for such a circuit

The resistor could overheat

The resistor's internal capacitance would detune the circuit

G6B10: Which element of a triode vacuum tube is used to regulate the flow of electrons between cathode and plate?

Heater

Screen Grid

Trigger electrode

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

G7A06: What portion of the AC cycle is converted to DC by a full-wave rectifier?

90 degrees

180 degrees

270 degrees

G7B09: What determines the frequency of an LC oscillator?

The number of stages in the counter

The number of stages in the divider

The time delay of the lag circuit

G7C03: What circuit is used to process signals from the RF amplifier and local oscillator and send the result to the IF filter in a superheterodyne receiver?

Balanced modulator

IF amplifier

Detector

G8A12: What signal(s) would be found at the output of a properly adjusted balanced modulator?

Either upper or lower sideband, but not both

Both upper and lower sidebands and the carrier

The modulating signal and the unmodulated carrier

G8B11: How does forward error correction allow the receiver to correct errors in received data packets?

By controlling transmitter output power for optimum signal strength

By using the varicode character set

By using a parity bit with each character

G9A11: What standing wave ratio will result from the connection of a 50-ohm feed line to a non-reactive load having a 50-ohm impedance?

2:1

50:50

0:0

G9B03: What happens to the feed-point impedance of a ground-plane antenna when its radials are changed from horizontal to downward-sloping?

It decreases

It stays the same

It reaches a maximum at an angle of 45 degrees

G9C09: What is the approximate maximum theoretical forward gain of a three element, single-band Yagi antenna?

9.7 dBd

5.4 times the gain of a dipole

All of these choices are correct

G9D06: Which of the following is an advantage of a log periodic antenna?

Higher gain per element than a Yagi antenna

Harmonic suppression

Polarization diversity