E0A01: What, if any, are the differences between the radiation produced by radioactive materials and the electromagnetic energy radiated by an antenna?

There is no significant difference between the two types of radiation

Only radiation produced by radioactivity can injure human beings

Radiation from an antenna will damage unexposed photographic film but ordinary radioactive materials do not cause this problem

E1A13: Who must be in physical control of the station apparatus of an amateur station aboard any vessel or craft that is documented or registered in the United States?

Only a person with an FCC Marine Radio

Only a person named in an amateur station license grant

Any person named in an amateur station license grant or a person holding an unrestricted Radiotelephone Operator Permit

E1B12: What is the highest modulation index permitted at the highest modulation frequency for angle modulation?

.5

2.0

3.0

E1C07: What is meant by local control?

Controlling a station through a local auxiliary link

Automatically manipulating local station controls

Controlling a repeater using a portable handheld transceiver

E1D09: Which amateur service UHF bands have frequencies available for a space station?

70 cm

70 cm and 33 cm

33 cm and 13 cm

E1E01: What is the minimum number of qualified VEs required to administer an Element 4 amateur operator license examination?

5

2

4

E1F06: What is the National Radio Quiet Zone?

An area in Puerto Rico surrounding the Aricebo Radio Telescope

An area in New Mexico surrounding the White Sands Test Area

An area in Florida surrounding Cape Canaveral

E2A11: What type of antenna can be used to minimize the effects of spin modulation and Faraday rotation?

A linearly polarized antenna

An isotropic antenna

A log-periodic dipole array

E2B18: On which of the following frequencies is one likely to find FM ATV transmissions?

14.230 MHz

29.6 MHz

52.525 MHz

E2C05: What is the function of a DX QSL Manager?

To allocate frequencies for DXpeditions

To run a net to allow many stations to contact a rare DX station

To relay calls to and from a DX station

E2D05: Which of the following techniques is normally used by low Earth orbiting digital satellites to relay messages around the world?

Digipeating

Multi-satellite relaying

Node hopping

E2E06: What is the most common data rate used for HF packet communications?

48 baud

110 baud

1200 baud

E3A04: What type of receiving system is desirable for EME communications?

Equipment with very wide bandwidth

Equipment with very low dynamic range

Equipment with very low gain

E3B10: What is the cause of gray-line propagation?

At midday, the Sun being directly overhead superheats the ionosphere causing increased refraction of radio waves

In darkness, solar absorption drops greatly while atmospheric ionization remains steady

At mid afternoon, the Sun heats the ionosphere decreasing radio wave refraction and the MUF

E3C14: Why does the radio-path horizon distance exceed the geometric horizon?

E-region skip

D-region skip

Downward bending due to aurora refraction

E4A02: Which of the following parameters would a spectrum analyzer display on the horizontal axis?

SWR

Q

Time

E4B05: If a frequency counter with a specified accuracy of +/- 10 ppm reads 146,520,000 Hz, what is the most the actual frequency being measured could differ from the reading?

146.52 Hz

10 Hz

146.52 kHz

E4C04: What is the definition of the noise figure of a receiver?

The ratio of atmospheric noise to phase noise

The noise bandwidth in Hertz compared to the theoretical bandwidth of a resistive network

The ratio of thermal noise to atmospheric noise

E4D02: Which of the following describes two problems caused by poor dynamic range in a communications receiver?

Oscillator instability requiring frequent retuning and loss of ability to recover the opposite sideband

Cross-modulation of the desired signal and insufficient audio power to operate the speaker

Oscillator instability and severe audio distortion of all but the strongest received signals

E4E02: Which of the following types of receiver noise can often be reduced with a DSP noise filter?

Broadband white noise

Ignition noise

Power line noise

E5A10: What is the half-power bandwidth of a parallel resonant circuit that has a resonant frequency of 1.8 MHz and a Q of 95?

1.89 kHz

94.5 kHz

9.45 kHz

E5B03: The capacitor in an RC circuit is discharged to what percentage of the starting voltage after two time constants?

86.5%

63.2%

36.8%

E5C10: When using rectangular coordinates to graph the impedance of a circuit, what does the vertical axis represent?

Resistive component

The sum of the reactive and resistive components

The difference between the resistive and reactive components

E5D14: What is reactive power?

Power consumed in wire resistance in an inductor

Power lost because of capacitor leakage

Power consumed in circuit Q

E6A12: Why do many MOSFET devices have internally connected Zener diodes on the gates?

To provide a voltage reference for the correct amount of reverse-bias gate voltage

To protect the substrate from excessive voltages

To keep the gate voltage within specifications and prevent the device from overheating

E6B12: What is one common use for PIN diodes?

As a constant current source

As a constant voltage source

As a high voltage rectifier

E6C10: In Figure E6-5, what is the schematic symbol for a NOR gate?

1

2

3

E6D16: What is one reason for using ferrite toroids rather than powdered-iron toroids in an inductor?

Ferrite toroids generally have lower initial permeabilities

Ferrite toroids generally have better temperature stability

Ferrite toroids are easier to use with surface mount technology

E6E07: Which of the following techniques is typically used to construct a MMIC-based microwave amplifier?

Ground-plane construction

Point-to-point construction

Wave-soldering construction

E6F07: What is a solid state relay?

A relay using transistors to drive the relay coil

A mechanical relay that latches in the on or off state each time it is pulsed

A passive delay line

E7A14: What is a JK flip-flop?

A flip-flop utilizing low power, low temperature Joule-Kelvin devices

A flip-flop similar to a D flip-flop except that it triggers on the negative clock edge

A flip-flop originally developed in Japan and Korea which has very low power consumption

E7B07: Which of the following is a likely result when a Class C amplifier is used to amplify a single-sideband phone signal?

Reduced intermodulation products

Increased overall intelligibility

Signal inversion

E7C13: What is one advantage of a Pi matching network over an L matching network consisting of a single inductor and a single capacitor?

L networks cannot perform impedance transformation

Pi networks have fewer components

Pi networks are designed for balanced input and output

E7D17: What is the primary reason that a high-frequency inverter type high-voltage power supply can be both less expensive and lighter in weight than a conventional power supply?

The inverter design does not require any output filtering

It uses a diode bridge rectifier for increased output

It uses a large power-factor compensation capacitor to create "free power" from the unused portion of the AC cycle

E7E12: What is a frequency discriminator stage in a FM receiver?

An FM generator circuit

A circuit for filtering two closely adjacent signals

An automatic band-switching circuit

E7F01: What is the purpose of a prescaler circuit?

It converts the output of a JK flip flop to that of an RS flip-flop

It multiplies a higher frequency signal so a low-frequency counter can display the operating frequency

It prevents oscillation in a low-frequency counter circuit

E7G12: What is an integrated circuit operational amplifier?

A digital audio amplifier whose characteristics are determined by components external to the amplifier

An amplifier used to increase the average output of frequency modulated amateur signals to the legal limit

An RF amplifier used in the UHF and microwave regions

E7H07: What is a magnetron oscillator?

An oscillator in which the output is fed back to the input by the magnetic field of a transformer

A crystal oscillator in which variable frequency is obtained by placing the crystal in a strong magnetic field

A reference standard oscillator in which the oscillations are synchronized by magnetic coupling to a rubidium gas tube

E8A14: Which of these methods is commonly used to convert analog signals to digital signals?

Harmonic regeneration

Level shifting

Phase reversal

E8B03: What is the modulation index of an FM-phone signal having a maximum frequency deviation of 3000 Hz either side of the carrier frequency, when the modulating frequency is 1000 Hz?

0.3

3000

1000

E8C13: What is one advantage of using JT-65 coding?

Uses only a 65 Hz bandwidth

Easily copied by ear if necessary

Permits fast-scan TV transmissions over narrow bandwidth

E8D15: Which of the following is a typical value for the RMS voltage at a standard U.S. household electrical power outlet?

340V AC

85V AC

170V AC

E9A04: Why would one need to know the feed point impedance of an antenna?

To measure the near-field radiation density from a transmitting antenna

To calculate the front-to-side ratio of the antenna

To calculate the front-to-back ratio of the antenna

E9B06: If the boom of a Yagi antenna is lengthened and the elements are properly retuned, what usually occurs?

The SWR decreases

The front-to-back ratio increases

The gain bandwidth decreases rapidly

E9C09: What is the front-to-back ratio of the radiation pattern shown in Figure E9-2?

15 dB

3 dB

24 dB

E9D14: Which of the following types of conductor would be best for minimizing losses in a station's RF ground system?

A resistive wire, such as a spark plug wire

A cable with 6 or 7 18-gauge conductors in parallel

A single 12 or 10-gauge stainless steel wire

E9E07: What term best describes the interactions at the load end of a mismatched transmission line?

Characteristic impedance

Velocity factor

Dielectric constant

E9F10: What impedance does a 1/8-wavelength transmission line present to a generator when the line is shorted at the far end?

A capacitive reactance

The same as the characteristic impedance of the line

The same as the input impedance to the final generator stage

E9G11: How are the wavelength scales on a Smith chart calibrated?

In fractions of transmission line electrical frequency

In fractions of antenna electrical wavelength

In fractions of antenna electrical frequency

E9H02: What is the effective radiated power relative to a dipole of a repeater station with 200 watts transmitter power output, 4-dB feed line loss, 3.2-dB duplexer loss, 0.8-dB circulator loss and 10-dBd antenna gain?

2000 watts

126 watts

300 watts