RC EXAM EST07 9.

Why should you use only good quality

coaxial cable and connectors for a UHF
1. When is the ionosphere least ionized?
antenna system?
Shortly before dawn
To keep RF loss low

2. What refers to waves that are neither

10. If the wave passes from a less dense
transmitted nor absorbed but are
medium to a denser medium, it is bent
reflected from the surface of the
______ the normal, and the angle of
medium they encounter?
refraction is less than the angle of
Reflected waves
incidence.
Toward
3. What type of wave motion wherein the
disturbance is in up and down motion,
11. For radio signals, the skip distance is
or at right angles, to the outward
determined by the:
motion of the waves.?
height of the ionosphere and the
Transverse Wave Motion
angle of radiation

4. In wave propagation, when the

12. Which of the following is not a scatter
incident wave is ______ to the surface,
mode?
more of the energy is transmitted into
Absorption scatter
the substance and less is reflecte
Perpendicular
13. To model a transmission line of
infinitesimal length, what the lumped
5. What refers to the sensation the
element is not used?
intensity (and sometimes frequency) of
Transistor
sound wave produces on the ear?
Loudness
14. In sound propagation, raising the
temperature of the medium (which
6. What kind of SWR reading may mean
decreases its density) has the effect of
poor electrical contact between parts
______ the velocity of sound through
of an antenna system?
the medium.
A jumpy reading
Increasing

7. The permissible exposure levels of RF

15. What does an SWR reading of 1:1
fields:
mean?
increases, as frequency is increased
The best impedance match has been
from 300 MHz to 1.5 GHz
attained

8. As the length of a transmission line is

16. In wave propagation, if the source and
changed, what happens to signal loss?
the receiver are moving apart, the
Signal loss increases as length
receiver will perceive a _____
increases
frequency sound.
Lower
17. What happen to signals higher in 25. The usual effect of ionospheric storms
frequency than the critical frequency? is to:
They pass through the ionosphere cause a fade-out of sky-wave signals

18. When a lossless line is terminated with

an arbitrary load impedance Z_L, then
it:
causes wave reflection on
transmission lines

19. TV twin-lead transmission line can be

used for a transmission line in an
amateur station. The impedance of this
line is approximately:
300 ohms

20. The major advantage of double stub

tuning is:
it uses 2 tuning stubs in fixed
positions

21. Propagation constant γ in terms of

admittance and impedance of the
transmission line is given by:
sqrt (ZY)

22. If a single section quarter wave

transformer is used for impedance
matching at some frequency, then the
length of the matching line is:
Is different at different frequencies

23. What kind of antenna transmission line

is made of two conductors held apart
by insulated rods?
Open wire line

24. A change or variation in signal strength

at the antenna, caused by differences
in path lengths, is called:
Fading