G0A13: What precaution should be taken when installing a ground-mounted antenna?

It should not be installed higher than you can reach

It should not be installed in a wet area

It should limited to 10 feet in height

G0B14: Which of the following is covered by the National Electrical Code?

Acceptable bandwidth limits

Acceptable modulation limits

RF exposure limits of the human body

G1A07: Which of the following frequencies is within the General Class portion of the 75 meter phone band?

1875 kHz

3750 kHz

4005 kHz

G1B01: What is the maximum height above ground to which an antenna structure may be erected without requiring notification to the FAA and registration with the FCC, provided it is not at or near a public use airport?

50 feet

100 feet

300 feet

G1C07: What is the maximum symbol rate permitted for RTTY or data emission transmission on the 20 meter band?

56 kilobaud

19.6 kilobaud

1200 baud

G1D03: On which of the following band segments may you operate if you are a Technician Class operator and have a CSCE for General Class privileges?

Only the Technician band segments until your upgrade is posted on the FCC database

Only on the Technician band segments until your license arrives in the mail

On any General or Technician Class band segment except 30 and 60 meters

G1E08: Which of the following is a requirement for a non-licensed person to communicate with a foreign Amateur Radio station from a station with an FCC granted license at which a licensed control operator is present?

Information must be exchanged in English

The control operator must have at least a General Class license

All of these choices are correct

G2A03: Which of the following is most commonly used for SSB voice communications in the VHF and UHF bands?

Lower sideband

Vestigial sideband

Double sideband

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

G2C06: What does the term 'zero beat' mean in CW operation?

Matching the speed of the transmitting station

Operating split to avoid interference on frequency

Sending without error

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

A quarter-wave vertical antenna

An isotropic antenna

An omnidirectional antenna

G2E03: What part of a data packet contains the routing and handling information?

Directory

Preamble

Footer

G3A07: At what point in the solar cycle does the 20 meter band usually support worldwide propagation during daylight hours?

At the summer solstice

Only at the maximum point of the solar cycle

Only at the minimum point of the solar cycle

G3B10: What is the approximate maximum distance along the Earth's surface that is normally covered in one hop using the E region?

180 miles

2,500 miles

12,000 miles

G3C11: Which of the following antenna types will be most effective for skip communications on 40 meters during the day?

Vertical antennas

Left-hand circularly polarized antennas

Right-hand circularly polarized antenna

G4A07: What condition can lead to permanent damage when using a solid-state RF power amplifier?

Exceeding the Maximum Usable Frequency

Low input SWR

Shorting the input signal to ground

G4B01: What item of test equipment contains horizontal and vertical channel amplifiers?

An ohmmeter

A signal generator

An ammeter

G4C08: Which of the following would reduce RF interference caused by common-mode current on an audio cable?

Adding series capacitors to the conductors

Adding shunt inductors to the conductors

Adding an additional insulating jacket to the cable

G4D10: How close to the lower'edge of the 40 meter General Class phone segment should your displayed carrier frequency be when using 3 kHz wide'LSB?

3 kHz below the edge of the segment

Your displayed carrier frequency may be set at the edge of the segment

Center your signal on the edge of the segment

G4E11: Which of the following is a disadvantage of using wind as the primary source of power for an emergency station?

The conversion efficiency from mechanical energy to electrical energy is less than 2 percent

The voltage and current ratings of such systems are not compatible with amateur equipment

All of these choices are correct

G5A08: Why is impedance matching important?

So the load will draw minimum power from the source

To ensure that there is less resistance than reactance in the circuit

To ensure that the resistance and reactance in the circuit are equal

G5B08: What is the peak-to-peak voltage of a sine wave that has an RMS voltage of 120 volts?

84.8 volts

169.7 volts

240.0 volts

G5C08: What is the equivalent capacitance of two 5000 picofarad capacitors and one 750 picofarad capacitor connected in parallel?

576.9 picofarads

1733 picofarads

3583 picofarads

G6A13: What is an effect of inter-turn capacitance in an inductor?

The magnetic field may become inverted

The permeability will increase

The voltage rating may be exceeded

G6B14: What is the minimum allowable discharge voltage for maximum life of a standard 12 volt lead acid battery?

6 volts

8.5 volts

12 volts

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

G7A03: What is the peak-inverse-voltage across the rectifiers in a full-wave bridge power supply?

One-quarter the normal output voltage of the power supply

Half the normal output voltage of the power supply

Double the normal peak output voltage of the power supply

G7B06: What is a shift register?

An array of operational amplifiers used for tri state arithmetic operations

A digital mixer

An analog mixer

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

G8A04: What emission is produced by a reactance modulator connected to an RF power amplifier?

Multiplex modulation

Amplitude modulation

Pulse modulation

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

G9A05: How does the attenuation of coaxial cable change as the frequency of the signal it is carrying increases?

It is independent of frequency

It decreases

It reaches a maximum at approximately 18 MHz

G9B10: What is the approximate length for a 1/2-wave dipole antenna cut for 14.250 MHz?

8 feet

16 feet

24 feet

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

G9D07: Which of the following describes a log periodic antenna?

Impedance varies periodically as a function of frequency

Gain varies logarithmically as a function of frequency

SWR varies periodically as a function of boom length