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1._____ frequencies are 7.(Mar 1996) What is the 13.A duplexer is used to
exact multiples of the main purpose of a a) Feed more than one
fundamental frequency. communications system? receiver from a single
a) Harmonic a) To have a frequency antenna
b) Distortion assignment b) Connect two t6ransmitter
c) Radio b) For modulation to the same antenna
d) Modulation c) To provide an acceptable c) Feed more than one
replica of the information at transmitter from a single
2.The signal which is the designation antenna
superimposed on a high- d) None of these d) Connect a receiver and a
frequency sine wave is called transmitter to the same
_____. 8.What is an NO RY? antenna
a) Sideband a) Normally open relay
b) Square wave b) Non organic relay 14.(Apr 1998) A carrier signal
c) Carrier c) Non operational relay has _____.
d) Information d) Normally ready a) Constant peak amplitude
b) Frequency range 20-
3.(Mar 1996) Power is always 9.Which is not true about 20000 Hz
_____. modulation c) The information
a) A definite amount of a) Transmission over longer d) A varying amplitude
energy distances
b) Expressed in watts b) More practical antenna 15.High-frequency distortion
c) The rate at which energy is c) Multiple transmission occurs when the _____
used d) Narrower bandwidth harmonic components of a
d) All of these digital square wave are lost.
10.What class of bias should a) Cut-off frequency
4.He was the one who produce least harmonics? b) Low frequency
developed the mathematical a) Class C c) High frequency
solution to a complex b) Class B d) Sub
repetitive waveform. c) Class D
a) P.H Smith d) Class A 16.What is the magnitude of
b) J. Fourier the frequency component at
c) Carson 11.What is the approximate seven times the fundamental
d) Y. Uda efficiency of a class B linear frequency for a square wave
RF AM amplifier? amplitude 1 V?
5.An earth station receiver a) 35% a) 0.14
has a signal of 4 x 10-12 W b) 50% b) 0.2
across 50 input. What is c) 12% c) 0.18
the signal level in microvolts? d) 90% d) 0.7
a) 328
b) 1000 12.When did the first 17.(Mar 1996) Atmospheric
c) 14.14 transatlantic radio condition is controlled by
d) 1.6 communications take place? a) Humidity
a) 1901 b) Temperature
6.The entire range of _____ b) 1942 c) All of these
of electromagnetic radiation c) 1876 d) Pressure
is called the frequency d) 1888
spectrum. a) Phases 18.Which of the following
b) Frequencies items need not be checked
c) Amplitudes with receivers?
d) Energies a) Gain
b) Squelch
c) Sensitivity
d) Distortion

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19.Amplitude distortion 25.What sweep frequency 31.(Nov 1996) When was the
results from _____ could be used on a scope to UHF channels (14-83) of
amplification. stop an envelope pattern of television were added?
a) Direct 600-Hz modulation? a) 1947
b) Nonlinear a) 300 Hz b) 1904
c) Indirect b) 600 Hz c) 1852
d) Linear c) 1200 Hz d) 1952
d) 150 Hz
20.The term angular velocity 32.Which of the following is
as applied to electronic 26.The audio is reconstructed used in microwave ovens?
system refers to the number from the radio wave by: a) TWT
of: a) The action of a filter b) Magnetron
a) Radian per second a capacitor connected c) BWO
voltage vector rotates across the headset d) Klystron
b) None of these b) The action of the headset
c) Degrees averaged c) Having the audio removed 33.What is meant by
together from the carrier amplitude modulation?
d) Degrees subtracted from d) None of the above. a) The carrier sign is varied
the radians b) The carrier amplitude is
27.(Apr 1997) The final varied
21.What is an ideal pulse? amplifier of either FM or AM c) The carrier frequency is
a) A very short duration transmitter operates as varied
b) A low duty cycle a) Class C d) The carrier phase is varied
c) A perfect square wave b) Class A
with zero rise time c) Class D 34.What determines the
d) A high amplitude d) Class B station that will be selected
28.Where is ISB primarily by a tuner? a) The selectivity
22.The noise figure of a used? a) Telemetry of the IF
system is 12 and its input b) Radar b) The bandwidth of the
signal-to-noise ratio is 60. c) FM Broadcast amplifier
What is the output signal-to- d) Telephone and c) The sensitivity of the tuner
noise ratio? Telegraph Communications d) The resonant frequency
a) 720 of the tuner
b) 5 29.Which of the following
c) 72 limits the performance of a 35.(Nov 1998) Frequencies
d) 0.2 communication system? above _____ kHz, are
a) Cost referred to as the radio
23.It is the representation of b) Bandwidth frequencies.
a complex waveform in such c) Reliability a) 10
a way that the sinusoidal d) Accessibility b) 20
components are displayed as c) 100
a function of time. 30.What is the device d) 2
a) Wave Representation designed to display the signal
b) Time Domain state of many lines 36.What is the circuit that
c) TDR simultaneously? automatically holds the level
d) Frequency Domain a) Oscilloscope or strength of a signal at a
b) Spectrum analyzer predetermined level used to
24.A function y = f(t) is even c) Logic analyzer compensate for variations
if it has perfect symmetry due to fading?
about the _____. a) AGC
a) z-axis b) Discriminator
b) y-axis c) AFC
c) w-axis d) Limiter
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37.It is the representation of 44.What is a radio carrier? 51.In 1877, _____ invented a
a waveform in such a way a) A lower frequency signal method of making a
that its amplitude is displayed b) A lower amplitude signal permanent record of sound
as a function of frequency. c) A higher frequency with his invention of the
a) OTDR signal phonograph.
b) Frequency Domain d) A higher amplitude signal a) Morse
c) Time Domain b) Edison
d) Wave Shape 45.(Nov 1996) Which stands c) Marconi
for dB relative level? d) Bell
38.What does ALC mean? a) dBm
a) Asynchronous Link Control b) dBa 52.(Nov 1997) A method of
b) Automatic Level Control c) dBm expressing the amplitude of
c) Automatic Link Circuit d) dBr complex non-periodic signals
d) All Local Circuits such as speech.
46.What is the standard a) Volume
39.What radio frequencies intermediate frequency for b) Wavelength
are most affected by lightning FM radio? c) Frequency
or static waves? a) 112 kHz d) Pitch
a) UHF b) 455 kHz
b) SHF c) 4.5 kHz 53.What is a hybrid
c) VHF d) 10.7 kHz transmitter?
d) VLF a) Multiple transmitter
47.What is the circuit that b) Combination of metal and
40.Which of the following is changes modulated RF to plastic
not normally tested in a AF? a) Modulator c) Part semiconductor, part
transmitter? a) Modulation b) Synthesizer vacuum tube
b) Power c) Modem d) part metal, part liquid
c) Frequency d) Demodulator
d) Amplitude 54.Which of the following
48.(Apr 1998) An instrument services use crystal local
41.(Nov 1998) Which of the for recording waveforms of oscillators?
following is referred to as a audio frequency. a) Aircraft
radio emission without a) Phonoscope b) Shortwave listener
sidebands? b) Radioscope c) AM
a) Voice c) Oscilloscope d) FM
b) Data d) Audioscope
c) Carrier 55.(Mar 1996) The _____
d) Analog 49.How many times more filter attenuates signals but
bandwidth does the UHF passes frequencies below
42.In an AM transmitter, after band have than VHF band? and above the band.
the modulation stage, _____ a) 1000 a) Band stop
amplifier cannot be used. b) 10 b) Low pass
a) Class C c) 100 c) Band pass
b) Class A d) 1 d) High pass
c) Linear
d) Class B 50.Which is not a method of 56.Any waveform that is not
generating single sideband symmetrical in area about the
43.What type of wave trap is signal? time axis has a (n) _____
connected in series with a a) Filter component.
line? a) Series b) Weaver a) AC
b) Asynchronous c) Balanced modulator b) DC
c) Parallel d) Phase-shift c) RC
d) Synchronous d) FC

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57.What is the major problem 63.The parameter of a high- 69.The range of frequencies
with a very-high-frequency frequency carrier that may be represented in a signal.
oscillator? varied by a low-frequency a) Guardband
a) Poor frequency stability intelligence signal is _____. b) Beamwidth
b) Poor image rejection a) Phase c) Bandwidth
c) Low sensitivity b) All of the above d) Crisp
d) No power stability c) Amplitude
d) Frequency 70.(Nov 1998) Determine
58.What distinguishes one from the following radio
electromagnetic wave form 64.What is the amount of frequency that falls under the
another? power lost in a device due to Very High Frequency band of
a) Frequency its presence in the path of the radio spectrum.
b) Amplitude energy flow? a) 450.00 MHz
c) Phase a) Wave attenuation b) 235.5 MHz
d) Energy b) Insertion loss c) 144.50 GHz
c) Phase shift d) 345.00 MHz
59.What other term is d) Gain
essentially synonymous with 71.What is reduced by
beating? 65.(Nov 1998) The extremely rounding off square-wave
a) Filtering high frequency (EHF) band is emissions?
b) Heterodyning in the radio spectrum range a) Bandwidth
c) Scrambling of _____. b) Phase
d) Suppressing a) 3 to 30 MHz c) energy
b) 3 to 30 GHz d) Amplitude
60.A ______ is a resonant c) 30 to 300 GHz
circuit tuned to reject an d) 30 to 300 kHz 72.When an operator wishes
undesired signal by reducing to indicate that he has
the gain at the trap 66.What produces the dark received all of the last
frequency. spots on fax receiving paper? transmission, he will transmit
a) HPF a) High current the word _____.
b) LC tank b) Low impedance a) Out
c) LPF c) Burning due to electric b) Over
d) Wave trap current flow between helix c) Ok
wire and blade d) Roger
61.(Nov 1996) The d) Excessive heat
wavelength of light has no 73.(Apr 1998) Term in
role in 67.What is the purpose of a communication which is
a) Polarization conversion frequency referred, to send out in all
b) Diffraction oscillator? a) To provide a direction.
c) Interference conversion frequency a) Announce
d) Resolving power b) To provide good selectivity b) Transmit
c) To produce the IF c) Media
62.What is the coupling used d) To increase stability d) Broadcast
in Stoneman transmission
bridge? a) Inductive 68.(Apr 1998) What is the 74.(Nov 1996) Which of the
b) A combination of the period of a wave? following filters block FM
above a) The amplitude of the wave radio band for TV channels (2
c) Resistive b) The number of zero to 13)? a) Low-pass filter
d) Capacitive crossing in one cycle b) Band-pass filter
c) The number of degrees in c) Band-reject filter
tone cycle d) High-pass filter
d) The time required to
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75.Which of the following do 81.What type of coupling 87.What is gained by

not require a tuner? discriminates against operating an oscillator on
a) TV receiver harmonic transmission some subharmonic of the
b) Communications Satellite a) Transformer transmission frequency?
Receiver b) Direct a) High sensitivity
c) None of these c) Inductive b) Good selectivity
d) CB receiver d) Capacitive c) Frequency sensitivity
d) Frequency stability
76.(Apr 1998) Quantity that 82.He was the one who
do not change when a beam developed the wireless 88.What type of field does a
of light enters one medium to telegraph. Faraday shield stop?
another. a) Wavelength a) Armstrong a) Common
b) Speed b) Bell b) Electrostatic
c) Frequency c) Marconi c) Array
d) Direction d) Edison d) Magnetostatic

77.What is the result if a
balanced modulator is not
perfectly balanced?
a) Carrier transmitted
b) SB filtered
c) Both sideband transmitted
d) Low sideband transmitted
83.When voltages are out-of-
phase, the total voltage can
be found by adding:
a) Peak values
b) Arithmetically
c) Vectorially
d) Average values
89.What is a device such as
the microphone and the
headset sometimes called?
a) Reproducer
b) Receiver
c) Transmission Medium
d) Converter

78.In TV system. A picture 84.What kind of crystal is 90.Which of the following is

signals are transmitted by used in oscillators? not an advantage of SSB
a) PCM a) Quartz over AM? a) Simple receiver
b) FM b) Galena circuit
c) PM c) Salt b) Less spectrum
d) AM d) Carborundum c) None of these
d) Power saving
79.(Nov 1997) Which of the 85.(Apr 1997) If you have an
following falls under the high available number of power 91.A subcarrier has a (n)
frequency band of the radio amplifiers with a gain of 100 _____ frequency than the
spectrum? each, how many such main carrier. a) Higher
a) 35.535 MHz amplifiers do you need to b) Good
b) 150.50 MHz cascade to give an overall c) Lower
c) 2.4555 MHz gain of 60 dB? d) Equal
d) 8.2345 MHz a) 5
b) 4 92.(Apr 1998) With which
80.An adjustable resonant c) 3 emission type is the capture-
cavity calibrated if frequency d) 2 effect most pronounced?
and which undergoes some 86.(Apr 1998) What is a a) AM
power absorption at frequency discriminator? b) SSB
resonance. a) A circuit for filtering two c) CW
a) Frequency Meter closely adjacent signal d) FM
b) Ferrite isolator b) An FM generator
c) Cavity Resonator c) An automatic 93.What does VOX mean?
d) Auto Coupler bandswitching circuit a) Very onward circuit
d) A circuit for detecting b) Voice onward transmission
FM signals c) Voice-operated
transmission
d) Very oxford transmitter

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94.The maximum swing of 99.Pilot carrier transmission, 105.It is the liberation of

the sound carrier in TV means electrons by thermionic
system is ______. a) Only one sideband is means, used as the principal
a) 10 kHz transmitted source of electron emission
b) 75 kHz b) Two sidebands as well in microwave vacuum tube
c) 15 kHz as a trace of carrier are devices.
d) 25 kHz transmitted a) Secondary Effect
c) Only two sidebands are b) Miller Effect
95.Is SSB, voice transmitted c) Edison Effect
compression is better in the d) One sideband and carrier d) Bunching
AF or Rf section? are transmitted
a) AF
b) SB 100.What is the source of 106.What does ANSI mean?
c) RF wheel static? a) American non stop
d) Intermediate a) Wheel information
b) Brakes b) Auxiliary non station
96.The process of impressing c) Oscillations identifier
information signals to a high d) Piston c) American national
frequency carrier is called standards institute
_____. 101.The SI unit of magnetic d) Auxiliary net system
a) scrambling field intensity is interconnection
b) detection a) Ampere
c) modulation b) Ampere/square meter 107.What is the oldest and
d) multiplexing c) Volt/meter simplest form of multiplexing?
d) Ampere/meter a) Hybrid-division
97.A type of information multiplexing
signal which is made up of 102.(Nov 1997) Nominal b) Space-division
rapid and unpredictable voice channel multiplexing
variations in amplitude and a) 4 kHz c) Frequency-division
frequency. b) 16 to 16 kHz multiplexing
a) digital c) 3 to 3 kHz d) Time-division multiplexing
b) pulses d) 20 to 20 kHz
c) bits 108.What device can be used
d) speech 103.If two signals are in to make a modulated
quadrature, what is their envelope visible?
98.Keyed AGC is AGC that: phase relation? a) Spectrum Analyzer
a) Works only with Morse a) 0 b) Calibrator
code. Is activated when b) 45 c) Synthesizer
keyed by the transmitting c) 180 d) Oscilloscope
signal d) 90
b) Is used in color TV 109.To provide two or more
receivers so that the 104.(Apr 1997) If a voltage is voice circuits with the same
transmitted color has no equal to twice its original carrier, what system must be
effect on the AGC value, what is its used?
c) Is used in TV receivers corresponding change in dB? a) Pilot carrier system
so that transmitted picture a) 10 dB b) Vestigial sideband system
brightness does not affect b) 6 dB c) Lincomplex
the AGC c) 3 dB d) ISB emission
d) 9 dB

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110.The value(s) associated 115.What is the main 122.What kind of system

with sine waves of voltages disadvantage of a single-tube relays has remote readings?
are: transmitted? a) Telecast
a) All of the above a) High attenuation b) Telemetering
b) Maximum b) High resistivity c) Data gathering
c) Instantaneous c) Frequency instability d) Broadcasting
d) Average d) Low gain
123.(Nov 1996)Multiplexing
111.What causes audio 116.In free-space, the phase in a time division multiplexer
signals to be distorted in a velocity of a TEM wave is occurs based upon
receiver? _____ the group velocity. a) The priority assigned to a
a) Harmonics a) Greater than connected device
b) Amplitude b) Equal to b) The activity of a connected
c) Gain c) None of the above device
d) Interference d) Less than c) The positioning of data
within a frame
112.The circuit that performs 117.What type of circuit d) The position of a frame
the suppression of the carrier reduces even-order within a group of frames
signal. a) Pre-emphasis harmonics?
b) Balanced modulator a) Demodulator 124.A diagram which shows
c) Carrier synthesizer b) Push-Pull the relationship between RF
d) LPF c) Armstrong circuit signal phase and maximum
d) Class A bunching of the electron
113.(Mar 1996) what is the beam in velocity-modulated
purpose of a beat frequency 118.What is the name of the devices.
oscillator (BFO)? operation that uses an a) S-parameters Diagram
a) Generates a signal, whose antenna changeover switch? b) Venn Diagram
frequency is the same as that a) Switching c) Applegate Diagram
of the intermediate frequency b) Simplex d) Smith Chart
b) Generates an output, c) Crossover
whose frequency differs from d) Duplex 125.What is the small amount
that of the intermediate of the signal applied to the
frequency by 1 kHz 119.(Apr 1998) Best input port that leaks through
c) Generates a 1 kHz tone describes as an amplifier to the output port?
to Morse reception used in radio telephony. a) Insertion loss
d) Aids in the reception of a) Class C b) Regenerative loss
weak voice-modulated b) Magnifier c) Feedthrough loss
signals c) Class A d) Reflection loss
d) Class B 126.What is the wavelength
114.The input power to a 50- for a frequency of 1 million
receiver is 200 pW. 120.(Apr 1998) Term for hertz?
Determine the receiver gain transmission of printed a) 30 km
required to produce 3 dBm at picture by radio. b) 3 km
the detector. a) 40 dB a) ACSSB c) 30 m
b) 7 dB b) Xerography d) 300 m
c) 20 dB c) Television
d) 70 dB d) Facsimile 127.What does the acronym
VIR mean?
121.What service uses HF a) Video Interface Relay
CW communications? b) Video Interval Recording
a) Broadcasting c) Vertical Interface Relay
b) Telephony d) Vertical Interval
c) Satellite System Reference
d) Police

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128.Any periodic function is 134.What is the relative 141.What is the seventh

represented by the sum of a permittivity of air? harmonic of 360 kHz?
number of sinusoidal a) 8.853 x 10-12 a) 1260 kHz
variations of different b) 20 b) 2520 kHz
amplitudes, frequencies, and c) 1.26 x 10-6 c) 5040 kHz
phases. d) 1 d) 7000 kHz
a) Hartleys Theorem
b) Fouriers Theorem 135.A device which can 142.In a low-level modulation
c) Huygens Theorem perform the function of both a system, the type of amplifier
d) Nyquist Theorem transmitter and a receiver. that follows the modulated
a) Transceiver stage should be a _____.
129.What is another name for b) Relay a) Any of the above
AF volume control? c) Buffer b) Harmonic generator
a) AFC d) Repeater c) Linear amplifier
b) Gain d) Class C amplifier
c) ARC 136.Which came first, the
d) AMC invention of the telephone or 143.What method can be
the invention of the used to invert speech?
130.A major disadvantage of phonograph? a) AGC
the vacuum tube is its need a) either b) Frequency translation
for a _____ to give energy to b) telephone c) Frequency multiplier
the electrons. c) neither d) Inverter
a) Limiter d) phonograph
b) Heater 144.It refers to the sending,
c) Line equalizer 137.What is usually receiving and processing of
d) Voltage source transmitted by facsimile? information by electronic
a) Voice means. a) Telemetry
131.What happens to the b) Bits b) Telephony
spectrum of a repetitive pulse c) Pictures c) Broadcasting
as the pulse width d) Video signal d) Communications
decreases?
a) Remain constant 138.Amplitude limiting in the 145.(Nov 1996) What is the
b) Less harmonics of the IF section eliminates _____ equivalent output of a circuit
same phase interference from the FM in dBm , if it has an output of
c) decreases signal. a) AM 10 watts?
d) More harmonics of the b) FM a) 20 dBm
same phase c) Broadband b) 30 dBm
d) PM c) 10 dBm
132.What does AFC mean? d) 40 dBm
a) All Filipino Conference 139.Name a periodic
b) Automatic Frequency waveform that consists of 146.What is the main
Control only odd harmonics. difference between an AF
c) Audio Frequency Camera a) Cosine wave amplifier and an RF
d) Anti Firing b) Spikes amplifier?
Countermeasure c) Square wave a) The range of frequencies
that they amplify
133.What is an advantage of 140.The information carrying b) The stability
series modulation? capacity of a signal is _____ c) The amplification factor
a) High gain and selectivity to its bandwidth. d) The selectivity
b) Capable of modulating a) Directly proportional
very high frequencies b) Inversely proportional
c) Capable of generating high c) Equal
power
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147.What circuit is used to

create vestigial transmission?
a) Diplexer
b) Duplexer
c) HPF
d) LPF

148.What is the meaning of

the acronym WDM?
a) Wavelength division
multiplexing
b) Wireless data monitoring
c) Wide distribution media
d) Wap distributed mode

149.The big breakthrough in

electric communications
came with the invention of
the _____ in 1844.
a) Phonograph
b) Telegraph
c) Transistor
d) Telephone

150.How many watts are

represented by 40 dBw?
a) 1000 W
b) 10000 W
c) 40000 W
d) 40 W

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