Continue Practice Exam Test Questions Part 3 of the Series

101. Next lowest layer in the ionosphere.

a. D

b. E

c. F1

d. F2

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102. What is the primary cause of ionization in the atmosphere?

a. Sun spot

b. Cosmic rays

c. Galactic disturbance

d. Ultraviolet radiation

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103. Which layer does not disappear at night?

a. D

b. E

c. F1

d. F2

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104. Which of the following uses surface wave propagation?

a. ELF

b. VLF

c. MF

d. All of these

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105. The ability of the ionosphere to reflect a radio wave back to the
earth is determined by
a. Operating frequency

b. Ion density

c. Angle of incidence

d. All of these

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106. Highest frequency that can be used for sky wave propagation
between two given points on earth.

a. Critical frequency

b. MUF

c. Cut –off frequency

d. UHF

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107. The shortest distance measured along the earth’s surface that a
sky wave is returned to earth.

a. MUF

b. Quarter-wavelength

c. Skip distance

d. Skip zone

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108. Fluctuation in the signal strength at the receiver.

a. Interference

b. Fading

c. Tracking

d. Variable frequency

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109. Two or more antennas are used separated by several wavelengths

a. Space diversity
b. Frequency diversity

c. Hybrid diversity

d. Polarization diversity

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110. Two or more receivers are used using a single antenna.

a. Space diversity

b. Frequency diversity

c. Hybrid diversity

d. Polarization diversity

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111. One of the following is not a cause of fading.

a. Interference between upper and lower rays of a sky wave.

b. Sky waves arriving at different number of hops

c. Interference due to ground reflected wave and sky wave

d. Diversity

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112. What do you call the gigantic emissions of hydrogen from the sun?

a. Solar flares

b. SIDs

c. Kennely-Heaviside

d. Sun spots

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113. Sudden ionospheric disturbance

a. Solar flares

b. SIDs

c. Sun spots

d. Intertropical convergence
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114. A means beyond the line of sight propagation of UHF signals.

a. Microwave propagation

b. Space wave propagation

c. Troposcatter propagation

d. Surface wave propagation

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115. Two directional antennas are pointed so that their beams

intersect in the troposphere.

a. Skywave

b. Surface wave

c. Microwave

d. Troposcatter

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116. Super refraction.

a. Ducting

b. Trposcatter

c. Skywave

d. Space wave

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117. A layer of warm air trapped above cooler air

a. Troposphere

b. SID

c. Duct

d. Huygen’s principle

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118. Corresponds to voltage

a. Electric field

b. Magnetic field

c. Gyro

d. Direction of propagation

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119. Absence of reception

a. Skip distance

b. Maximum usable

c. Shadow zone

d. Twilight zone

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120. Each point in a spherical waveform maybe a source of a secondary

spherical wavefront.

a. Senll’s law

b. Huygen’s principle

c. Rayleigh’s principle

d. De Morgan’s theorem

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121. Ducting occurs in which region of the atmosphere?

a. Stratosphere

b. Troposphere

c. Ionosphere

d. Ozone layer

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122. When is the E region most ionized?

a. At midday

b. At midnight
c. At duck

d. At dawn

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123. Transequatorial propagation is best during

a. Night time

b. Afternoon or early evening

c. Noontime

d. Morning

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124. Which of the following is most affected by knife-edge refraction?

a. Very high and ultra high frequencies

b. High frequencies

c. Medium frequency

d. Low frequency

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125. Which ionosphere layer has an average height of 225 km at night?

a. D layer

b. E layer

c. F1 layer

d. F2 layer

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126. A range of frequency little attenuated by the atmosphere is

called

a. slide

b. door

c. window

d. frame
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127. It is defined as either of two acute angles formed by the

intersection of the two portions of the tropospheric scatter beam
tangent to the earth’s surface.

a. critical angle

b. scatter angle

c. backscatter angle

d. sidescatter angle

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128. It is a device that permits two different transmitters to operate

with a single antenna.

a. duplexer

b. diplexer

c. isolator

d. circulator

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129. It is a gradual shift in polarization of the signal in the

medium.

a. fading

b. faraday effect

c. ghosting

d. multipath fading

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130. A diversity scheme wherein the receiver receives two fading

signals from two different directions.

a. frequency diversity

b. time diversity

c. angle diversity

d. space diversity
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131. The radio wavelength known as _________ falls within the medium
frequency range.

a. centimetric wave

b. decametric wave

c. hectometric wave

d. myriametric wave

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132. The most dense of all ionized layer of the ionosphere

a. E

b. F1

c. F2

d. D

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133. The frequency band used as sub-carriers, or signals which carry

the baseband modulating information but in turn modulate another
higher-frequency carrier is _________.

a. LF

b. MF

c. VLF

d. VH

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134. The range of frequency band termed as super high frequency (SHF)
is within _________.

a. 30 – 300 GHz

b. 30 – 300 MHz

c. 3 – 30 GHz

d. 300 – 3000 MHz

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135. Electric field that lies in a plane perpendicular to the earth’s

surface.

a. circular polarization

b. vertical polarization

c. horizontal polarization

d. elliptical polarization

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136. The magnetic field of an antenna is perpendicular to the earth.

The antenna’s polarization

a. is vertical

b. is horizontal

c. is circular

d. cannot be determined from the information given

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137. The surface wave is effective only at frequencies below about

_________ MHz.

a. 30

b. 3

c. 300

d. 0.3

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138. What wave propagation are attenuated within a few miles?

a. space

b. sky

c. ground

d. direct

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139. What happens to wave velocity as it passes from air to
ionosphere?

a. increases

b. decreases

c. remain the same

d. not a factor

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140. What wavelength radiations tend to be transmitted entirely

between ionosphere and earth?

a. long

b. short

c. medium

d. millimeter

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141. What effect do sunspots have on the ionosphere?

a. makes more rare and regular

b. makes more dense and irregular

c. makes less dense and regular

d. makes less dense and irregular

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142. What is a double-hop signal?

a. ground, ionosphere, ground and back to ionosphere

b. ground, ground, ionosphere, and ionosphere

c. ionosphere, ionosphere, ground and ground

d. ionosphere, ground, ionosphere and back to ground

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143. What is the major cause of fading?

a. phase difference

b. topographic variation

c. climate

d. ionosphere variation

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144. Where is the skip zone?

a. between the sky and the first reflected wave

b. between end of ground and first reflected wave

c. between end of ground and farthest reflected wave

d. between the end of sky to the farthest reflected wave

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145. What wave is the same day or night?

a. sky

b. space

c. direct

d. ground

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146. Why do HF communications system shift frequencies at different

times of day?

a. to take advantage of best reflected signals

b. to conserve the energy used

c. to create diversity

d. to improve noise performance

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147. Scatter transmission is used at what frequencies?

a. EHF and VLF

b. HF and VHF
c. VHF and UHF

d. ELF and VLF

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148. Over what areas ducts often form?

a. desert

b. water

c. forest

d. mountain

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149. Polarization named for _________ component of the wave?

a. static

b. magnetic

c. direction

d. propagation

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150. What polarization is employed in an AM broadcasting?

a. horizontal

b. parallel

c. transverse

d. vertical

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