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Subelement 3

Station Assembly, Practice and Safety

Section 3-14

station accessories for telegraphy, radiotelephony, digital modes

What do many amateurs use to help form good Morse code characters?

  • Correct Answer
    An electronic keyer
  • A key-operated on/off switch
  • A notch filter
  • A DTMF keypad
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Where would you connect a microphone for voice operation?

  • Correct Answer
    To a transceiver
  • To a power supply
  • To an antenna switch
  • To an antenna
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What would you connect to a transceiver for voice operation?

  • A receiver audio filter
  • A terminal-voice controller
  • Correct Answer
    A microphone
  • A splatter filter
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Why might a dummy antenna get warm when in use?

  • Because it absorbs static electricity
  • Because it stores radio waves
  • Correct Answer
    Because it changes RF energy into heat
  • Because it stores electric current
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What is the circuit called which causes a transmitter to automatically transmit when an operator speaks into its microphone?

  • VXO
  • VCO
  • VFO
  • Correct Answer
    VOX
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What is the reason for using a properly adjusted speech processor with a singlesideband phone transmitter?

  • Correct Answer
    It improves signal intelligibility at the receiver
  • It reduces average transmitter power requirements
  • It reduces unwanted noise pickup from the microphone
  • It improves voice frequency fidelity
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If a single-sideband phone transmitter is 100% modulated, what will a speech processor do to the transmitter's power?

  • Correct Answer
    It will add nothing to the output PEP
  • It will increase the output PEP
  • It will decrease the peak power output
  • It will decrease the average power output
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When switching from receive to transmit:

  • Correct Answer
    the receiver should be muted
  • the transmit oscillator should be turned off
  • the receiving antenna should be connected
  • the power supply should be off
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A switching system to enable the use of one antenna for a transmitter and receiver should also:

  • ground the antenna on receive
  • Correct Answer
    disable the unit not being used
  • switch between meters
  • disconnect the antenna tuner
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An antenna changeover switch in a transmitter-receiver combination is necessary:

  • Correct Answer
    so that one antenna can be used for transmitter and receiver
  • to change antennas for operation on other frequencies
  • to prevent RF currents entering the receiver circuits
  • to allow more than one transmitter to be used
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Which of the following components could be used as a dynamic microphone?

  • crystal earpiece
  • resistor
  • Correct Answer
    loudspeaker
  • capacitor
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