Technician Exam
Under the vanity call sign rules, they can select a desired call sign.
Who is any licensed amateur?
A Certificate of Successful Completion of Examination is valid for this amount of time.
What is 365 days?
This type of coordinate system is used in a Smith chart.
What is resistance circles and reactance arcs?
It's the maximum height above ground to which an antenna structure may be erected without requiring notification to the FAA, registration with the FCC and provided it is not near a public use airport.
What is 200 feet?
"Send more slowly" or "Should I send more slowly?"
What is QSY?
This type of wave carries radio signals between transmitting and receiving stations.
What is an electromagnetic wave?
If using 3 kHz wide LSB, your displayed carrier frequency should be this close to the lower edge of the phone segment portion of the band.
What is at least 3 kHz above the edge of the segment?
The 40, 20, 17, 15, 12, and 10 meter bands have frequencies authorized for these types of stations.
What are space stations?
This is the maximum transmitting power an amateur station may use on the 12 meter band.
What is 1500 watts PEP output?
"You are being called by _____" or "Who is calling me?"
What is QRZ?
It's the part of the atmosphere that enables the propagation of radio signals around the world.
What is the ionosphere?
This causes opposition tot he flow of alternating current in an inductor.
What is reactance.
This type of antenna is a theoretical, omnidirectional antenna used as a reference for antenna gain.
What is an isotropic antenna?
It's the maximum symbol rate permitted for RTTY or data emission transmissions on the 2 meter band.
What is 19.6 kilobaud?
"I am busy" or "Are you busy?"
What is QRL?
What is wavelength equals 300 divided by frequency?
When 400 VDC is supplied to an 800 ohm load, it's the amount of electrical power used.
What is 200 watts?
Part 97 tasks this group with maintaining the pools of questions for all U.S. amateur license examinations.
What are the VECs?
When an amateur station is installed aboard a ship or aircraft, this condition must be met before the station is operated.
What is the operation must be approved by the master of the ship or the pilot in command of the aircraft?
"I am ready" or "Are you ready?"
What is QRV?
To adjust volume control, this type of component is often used.
What is a potentiometer?
The capacitance of three 100 microfarad capacitors connected in series is this.
What is 33.3 microfarads?
As applied to an amateur radio satellite, the term "mode" means this.
What is the satellite's uplink and downlink frequency bands?
This constitutes an emission outside the signal's necessary bandwidth that can be reduced or eliminated without affecting the information transmitted.
What is a spurious emission?
"I have _____ messages for you" or "How many messages have you to send?"
What is QTC?