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The NEW Radio Amateurs Examination
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This is a multiple choice exam.You will be given 1.5 hours to complete
the test.
Only put a mark beside ONE answer. Use a hard leaded pencil.
1) You are using your radio on a public transport bus, are you;
a) /mobile
b) carrying a large battery.
c) Getting your mothers shopping.
d) Going to get a pink ticket.
2) You live within 100 metres of an airport are you;
a) Going deaf.
b) Going to move.
c) Get arrested for spying and recording strange telephone calls.
d) Only going to use underground aerials.
3) You wish to use packet radio, should you;
a) Get permission from any station with a call sign starting with G4A.
b) Practice playing the guitar for a month to get hardened finger tips.
c) Give to a well known charity, in the hope that that will help you.
d) None of the above because you think packet is really stupid anyway.
4) Your neighbour complains that you are causing interference to his t.v.
Do you;
a) Size him up, and if he is smaller than you, hit him.
b) Lie, and tell him you have sold all your radio's.
c) Lie, and tell him its the cb'er down the road.
d) Lie, tell him you sold all your radio's so it must be the cb'er down
the road, and then hit him.
5) Number five was too easy so we are not going to ask it.
6) What would the amperage be in a circuit with a 12 volt supply feeding two
6 ohm resistors in series.
a) Lots because you burnt your fingers on the resistors.
b) You dont know because the battery went flat.
c) The man in the shop said about 1 amp, but he aint a radio ham so what does
he know.
d) Whats an amp?
7) You wish to build a 5 amp psu, what out put device would you use;
a) Four washing up bottles and a shoe box (well its good enough for my Tracy
Island)
b) Whats a psu.
c) A 4 ohm load speaker.
d) A dummy load.
8)The callsign GW0XXX is issued to:
a) A pirate
b) Anyone who is a member of a secret fellowship.
c) Helen Sharman.
d) My mate Eric because he asked for that callsign.
9) A log must be kept for;
a) Keeping the fire going under the boiler for your steam radio.
b) To have something to use as a float during floods.
c) At least 4 millenia.
d) Nosey so-and-so's to have a look at.
10) Using voice modulation, the nomenclature J3E corresponds to;
a) Juliet three Echo
b) A small dark stain near Brighton.
c) Do not know what nomenclature means, so it does not matter.
d) Waffle mode.
11) Chirp is a form of frequency instability. It is caused by;
a) The microphone being too close to the budgie.
b) Chewing sun flower seeds.
c) Mistaking said budgie for microphone and jamming tail feathers
up the nose.
d) Shouting very loudly at your morse key, thereby overdriving it.
12) Which of the following might be effective at reducing risk of parasitic
oscillations in a low power vhf output stagel;
a) A liberal sprinkling of flea powder.
b) Carefull re-alignment of the left hand switch to the OFF position.
c) Use of a carefully selected set of ferrite beads to match your ear rings.
d) A bigger speaker.
13)We have been told not to include a question 13 as candidates
consider it unlucky to answer it.
14) If the frequency stability of a transmitter is poor it may be caused by;
a) An overly long stay at the Three Feathers pub last night.
b) Uneven or wrongly fitted feet.
c) Being at sea in bad weather.
d) Using mains voltage on a 12v. rig so as to increase the power output.
15) The first odd harmonic of 144.675 is;
a) Very odd.
b) Quite odd, but not as odd as some I know.
c) The people who use it.
d) 81
16) If your licence is revoked you should;
a) Shout at the wife.
b) Throw a tantrum.
c) Write to the Sun who have never got anything right and will publish
your letter as a complaint about the sewers.
d) Carry on as normal, and make out you never got the letter.
17) Which of the following represents a valid log;
a) Oak.
b) Some one who goes to every rally they can.
c) Toilet paper.
d) Captains Log, Stardate 4 1 3 7 9 .4
18) The band plans should be observed because;
a) I said so.
b) It is dangerous to go out side the band plan because people
sometimes fall off the edge and are never seen again.
c) The managment send the BOYS round if you don't.
d) They are very pretty, the way they are all laid out on paper.
19) Which type of mixer keeps unwanted outputs to a minimum;
a) Cola
b) Tonic water.
c) Collins cocktail mixer.
d) Water.
20) A transmitter has a power output of 100W. this is connected to an antenna
with a gain of 9 Db. By coax cable with a loss of 1Db. the ERP of the
antenna is;
a) Better known as Wyatt Erp.
b) Yellow.
c) Ruddy dangerous. I burnt my fingers on it.
d) Ergonomicaly Round Pomigranits
20) The squelch is operated by;
a) The passenger in the car.
b) Getting your boots full of water.
c) The net controller.
d) Yourself.
21) Polarisation of an electromagnetic wave is fixed by;
a) The ice caps.
b) A solinoid.
c) How long your arm is.
d) Who gives a damn.
22) The signals returned from the layers above the Earth are referred to as;
a) A bit of a nuisance.
b) Those bloomin' Italians.
c) Eric.
d) A close encounter of the RF kind.
23) Fading can be caused by;
a) Walking round the house with your hand-held.
b) Your next door neighbour cutting your coax.
c) Your antenna has fallen down.
d) Saturn being in the third house of your birthsign.
24) The addition of directors and a reflector to a folded dipole;
a) Raises the temperature of your neighbours.
b) Increases wind resistance.
c) Makes the antenna to big to put in the loft.
d) Lowers the impedence, but you dont know what that means.
25) You are going to visit a rally, do you;
a) Get a false callsign badge made up so that all the people you have
upset will not recognise you.
b) Collect every bit of junk you have that does not work to put on the
bring and buy.
c) Get your Anorak cleaned.
d) Raid the wifes/husbands bank account and hope they do not notice
till after the event.
26) You have a two metre radio in the car, and witness a road accident, do
you;
a) Call up all your mates so they can come and watch too.
b) Call on a Raynet frequency till you are blue in the face and still
not get a reply.
c) Remove the radio from the car and use it to support the victims head.
d) Run away.
27) You wish to use the amatuer sattelite services, do you;
a) Get a decoder card from Sky.
b) Telephone Cape Canaveral and ask when the next shuttle is, so can
can hitch a ride.
c) If you are a W.A.B.'er ask Helen what her area is.
d) Run 4000W. through a bank of sixteen 19 ele. tonna's and melt the
first sattelite you can.
28) The use of indoor transmitting antenna's will;
a) Test just how well you get on with your spouse.
b) Fill up the entire living room.
c) Be very boring if you live in a basement.
d) Cause severe RF burns to the nose, if trying to work 80 mtrs in the
same 8ft X 8ft room as the antenna is located.
29) The tuned `T' circuit is often referred to, is it;
a) A cup or small mug of tea.
b) In the top 10 of the charts.
c) Three bits of wire, pulled very tight, that resonate at middle C.
d) One of those funny little bits in the back of my Trio.
That completes paper one. Please hand your paper in to your priest and beg
forgiveness...
The above was the work of myself, and if it has caused offence to any
one I appologise.
73 de, John, G4VEL @ GB7LVA
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