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Subelement 8

Interference and Suppression

Section 8-04

harmonics, splatter, transmitter adjustments

If a neighbour reports television interference on one or two channels only when you transmit on 15 metres, what is probably the cause of the interference?

  • De ionization of the ionosphere near your neighbour's TV antenna
  • Correct Answer
    Harmonic radiation from your transmitter
  • TV receiver front-end overload
  • Too much low pass filtering on the transmitter
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What is meant by harmonic radiation?

  • Correct Answer
    Unwanted signals at frequencies which are multiples of the fundamental (chosen) frequency
  • Unwanted signals that are combined with a 60-Hz hum
  • Unwanted signals caused by sympathetic vibrations from a nearby transmitter
  • Signals which cause skip propagation to occur
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Why is harmonic radiation from an amateur station not wanted?

  • It uses large amounts of electric power
  • It may cause sympathetic vibrations in nearby transmitters
  • It may cause auroras in the air
  • Correct Answer
    It may cause interference to other stations and may result in out-of-band signals
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What type of interference may come from a multi-band antenna connected to a poorly tuned transmitter?

  • Parasitic excitation
  • Correct Answer
    Harmonic radiation
  • Intermodulation
  • Auroral distortion
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If you are told your station was heard on 21 375 kHz, but at the time you were operating on 7125 kHz, what is one reason this could happen?

  • Your transmitter's power-supply filter choke was bad
  • You were sending CW too fast
  • Correct Answer
    Your transmitter was radiating harmonic signals
  • Your transmitter's power-supply filter capacitor was bad
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What causes splatter interference?

  • Keying a transmitter too fast
  • Signals from a transmitter's output circuit are being sent back to its input circuit
  • The transmitting antenna is the wrong length
  • Correct Answer
    Overmodulation of a transmitter
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Your amateur radio transmitter appears to be creating interference to the television on channel 3 (60-66 MHz) when you are transmitting on the 15 metre band. Other channels are not affected. The most likely cause is:

  • no high-pass filter on the TV
  • a bad ground at the transmitter
  • Correct Answer
    harmonic radiation from the transmitter
  • front-end overload of the TV
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One possible cause of TV interference by harmonics from an SSB transmitter is from "flat topping" — driving the final amplifier into non- linear operation. The most appropriate remedy for this is:

  • retune transmitter output
  • use another antenna
  • Correct Answer
    reduce microphone gain
  • reduce oscillator output
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In a transmitter, excessive harmonics are produced by:

  • low SWR
  • resonant circuits
  • a linear amplifier
  • Correct Answer
    overdriven stages
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An interfering signal from a transmitter is found to have a frequency of 57 MHz (TV Channel 2 is 54 - 60 MHz). This signal could be the:

  • crystal oscillator operating on its fundamental
  • seventh harmonic of an 80 metre transmission
  • Correct Answer
    second harmonic of a 10 metre transmission
  • third harmonic of a 15 metre transmission
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Harmonics may be produced in the RF power amplifier of a transmitter if:

  • Correct Answer
    excessive drive signal is applied to it
  • the output tank circuit is not correctly tuned
  • the oscillator frequency is unstable
  • modulation is applied to more than one stage
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