1. Stage of VHF FM that generates harmonics in low frequency to meet the desired frequency.

ANSWER: Multiplier
2. Control in ALC, SSB transceiver.
ANSWER: Increase microphone gain (to avoid overmodulation)
3. Freq Dev (Fd) = 3kHz ; Mod. Freq (Fm) = 5kHz; BW?
ANS: 16kHz
5. How does FEC allow receiver to correct errors in the received data packet?
Ans. Transmitting redundant info
6. What makes HF scatter signal often sound distorted?
Ans. Energy is scattered in skip zone with different path
Trivia: Equalizer for distortion, amplifier for attenuation
#7 signal heard in scatter propagation indicates...
Ans: scatter prop sends in range of radio frequencies
8. What happens to rf signal greater than LUF, less than MUF, when sent to the ionosphere?
-sent back to earth
9. What happens to hf propagation when the LUF signal exceeds MUF
-NO HF SIGNAL CAN SUPPORT THAT SKYWAVE PATH BLAH BLAH
#10 k-index means?
Ans: Short term stability of earth's magnetic field
11. A-index
Ans. long stability of Earths geomagnetic field
12. What is the possible benefit to radio communications from period of high geomagnetic
activity? Ans. Aurora reflect VHF
13. __ provides synchronization without increasing the number of bits.
Ans. Scrambling

14. In decoding a digital signal, the receiver calculates a running average of the received signal
power, called the __.
Ans. Baseline
45. Data link control provides __ communication.
Ans. node-to-node
15. Which of the following does not include for synchronization?
ANS: NRZ-L
16. What precaution should be considered when installing an indoor antenna?
ANS: Make sure the MPE is not exceeded
17. What effects do high sunspot numbers have in radio comms?
ANS. Long distance comms in upper HR and low range VHF
18. full wave electric intensity, no component in electric field.
ANS. TE 20
19. Variable attenuators
-Isolate source, adjust signal and measure signal
20. Duplex
-one antenna for receiver or retransmission
21. For some applications, rectangular waveguide is preferred than circular waveguide because
of Ans : Lower Attenuation
22. Aliasing is error occuring when
Ans: Input frequency exceeds sampling rate
23. Double Conversion is used to overcome the problem of
ANS Image Frequency
24 When the message and the BCC is transmitted as separate parts within the transmitted
code, it is called as a/an
ANS systematic code
26. An alphanumeric code, binary from 0-9.
Ans. Gray code
27. Correction at Receiver Side
-Forward Error Correction
28. Connection of different Lans Identical Protocol
-Bridge
31. A dipole antenna is being fed with a 300 transmission line. If a quarter-wave matching
transformer is to be used as the non-resonant matching section, what must be the
characteristic impedance of the cable used in the matching transformer?
d. 147.9
32. An impedance-matching device that spreads the transmission line as it approaches the
antenna is called a
a. Delta match
33. A loading coil is often used with a Marconi antenna to:
Ans. Tuned out the capacitive reactive portion in the input impedance of the antenna
34. Calculate the optical power of a single mode. Transmitter power is 0.5mW with a loss of
0.10dB per km in 100km.
Ans. 50uW
35. One of the advantage of the base modulation over collector modulation of a transistor class
c amplifier is
-Lower power required
36. An FM signal having a modulating index of mF being passed through a frequency tripler.
What is the output?
-3mF
37. Frequency separation of uplink and downlink of AMPS
-45Mhz
38. Characteristic of open transmission line less than lamda/4
-Capacitive
39. Short transmission line that is less than lamda/4
-Inductive
40. Core that vary densities
-Multimode Graded Index
41. The polarization of plane waves received from a satellite is changed by
Ans. Faraday Rotation
42. Pre emphasis provides extra immunity by: Ans. Amplifying higher audio frequencies
43. One of the following is NOT the reason for the use of an antenna coupler.
D. To prevent reradiation of the local oscillator
44. What effect does an Ionospheric Propagation have on the daytime
Sudden Ionospheric propagation of HF radio waves.
44. ans. Disrupts signals on low frequencies more than higher frequencies

45. Data link control deals with _____ communication

ans. Node to node

46. Ans. Attenuation

Type of transmission impairment based on resistance/voltage /power of transmission medium.