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Subelement 8

Interference and Suppression

Section 8-02

audio rectification, bypass capacitors, ferrites

What devices would you install to reduce or eliminate audio-frequency interference to home entertainment systems?

  • Bypass resistors
  • Metal-oxide varistors
  • Correct Answer
    Bypass capacitors
  • Bypass inductors
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What should be done if a properly operating amateur station is the cause of interference to a nearby telephone?

  • Ground and shield the local telephone distribution amplifier
  • Stop transmitting whenever the telephone is in use
  • Correct Answer
    Ask the telephone company to install RFI filters
  • Make internal adjustments to the telephone equipment
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What sound is heard from a publicaddress system if audio rectification of a nearby single-sideband phone transmission occurs?

  • Clearly audible speech from the transmitter's signals
  • On-and-off humming or clicking
  • Correct Answer
    Distorted speech from the transmitter's signals
  • A steady hum whenever the transmitter's carrier is on the air
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What sound is heard from a publicaddress system if audio rectification of a nearby CW transmission occurs?

  • Audible, possibly distorted speech
  • Muffled, severely distorted speech
  • A steady whistling
  • Correct Answer
    On-and-off humming or clicking
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How can you minimize the possibility of audio rectification of your transmitter's signals?

  • By installing bypass capacitors on all power supply rectifiers
  • By using CW emission only
  • Correct Answer
    By ensuring that all station equipment is properly grounded
  • By using a solid-state transmitter
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An amateur transmitter is being heard across the entire dial of a broadcast receiver. The receiver is most probably suffering from:

  • harmonics interference from the transmitter
  • Correct Answer
    cross-modulation or audio rectification in the receiver
  • poor image rejection
  • splatter from the transmitter
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Cross-modulation is usually caused by:

  • Correct Answer
    rectification of strong signals
  • harmonics generated at the transmitter
  • improper filtering in the transmitter
  • lack of receiver sensitivity and selectivity
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What device can be used to minimize the effect of RF pickup by audio wires connected to stereo speakers, intercom amplifiers, telephones, etc.?

  • Magnet
  • Attenuator
  • Diode
  • Correct Answer
    Ferrite core
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Stereo speaker leads often act as antennas to pick up RF signals. What is one method you can use to minimize this effect?

  • Correct Answer
    Shorten the leads
  • Lengthen the leads
  • Connect the speaker through an audio attenuator
  • Connect a diode across the speaker
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One method of preventing RF from entering a stereo set through the speaker leads is to wrap each of the speaker leads around a:

  • copper bar
  • iron bar
  • Correct Answer
    ferrite core
  • wooden dowel
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Stereo amplifiers often have long leads which pick up transmitted signals because they act as:

  • transmitting antennas
  • RF attenuators
  • frequency discriminators
  • Correct Answer
    receiving antennas
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