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2013 ECT Board Questions

1. Name three good electrical conductors.

A. *Gold, silver, aluminum
B. Gold, silver, wood
C. Copper, aluminum, paper
D. Copper, gold, mica
2. An important difference between a conventional flashlight battery and a lead acid battery is that only the lead acid
battery:
a. *can be repeatedly recharged
b. has two terminals,
c. can be completely discharged
d. contains an electrolyte
3. The instrument used for measuring the flow of electrical current is the:
a. *Ammeter
b. faradmeter
c. wattmeter
d. voltmeter
4. Which of the following measurements are commonly made using a multimeter?
a. *Voltage and resistance
b. SWR and RF power
c. Signal strength and noise
d. Impedance and reactance
5. Why would there be a switch in a high-voltage power supply to turn off the power if its cabinet is opened?
a. *To keep anyone opening the cabinet from getting shocked by dangerous high voltages
b. To keep dangerous RF radiation from leaking out through an open cabinet
c. To keep dangerous RF radiation from coming in through an open cabinet
d. To turn the power supply off when it is not being used
6. Fault finding in a power supply of an amateur transmitter while the supply is operating is not a recommended
technique because of the risk of:
a. *electric shock
b. damaging the transmitter
c. overmodulation
d. blowing the fuse
7. Which of the following meters would you use to measure the power supply current drawn by a small hand-held
transistorized receiver?
a. *a DC ammeter
b. an RF ammeter
c. an RF power meter
d. an electrostatic voltmeter
8. What happens to a signal's frequency as its wavelength gets longer?
a. *It goes down
b. It disappears
c. It stays the same
d. It goes up
9. How should you position the antenna of a hand-held transceiver while you are transmitting?
a. *Away from your head and away from others
b. Pointed towards the station you are contacting
c. Pointed away from the station you are contacting
d. Pointed down to bounce the signal off the ground
10. To replace a faulty 10 millihenry choke, you could use two:
a. *Two 5 millihenry chokes in series
b. Two 20 millihenry chokes in series
c. Two 30 millihenry chokes in parallel
d. Two 5 millihenry chokes in parallel
11. The total capacitance of two or more capacitors in series is:
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a. *Always less than the smallest capacitor

b. found by adding each of the capacitors together and dividing by the total number of capacitors
c. found by adding each of the capacitors together
d. always greater than the largest capacitor
12. How does a capacitor react to AC?
a. *As the frequency of the applied AC increases, the reactance decreases
b. As the frequency of the applied AC increases, the reactance increases
c. As the amplitude of the applied AC increases, the reactance increases
d. As the amplitude of the applied AC increases, the reactance decreases
13. One result of a slight mismatch between the power amplifier of a transmitter and the antenna would be:
a. *reduced antenna radiation
b. smaller DC current drain
c. lower modulation percentage
d. radiated key-clicks
14. In a frequency modulation transmitter, the _________ is located between the modulator and the frequency
multiplier.
a. *Oscillator
b. speech amplifier
c. power amplifier
d. microphone
15. In a frequency modulation transmitter, the _________ is located between the frequency multiplier and the
antenna.
a. *power amplifier
b. modulator
c. speech amplifier
d. oscillator
16. Which type of modulation is most commonly used for VHF and UHF voice repeaters?
a. AM
b. SSB
c. PSK
d. *FM
17. Which of the following might damage a multimeter?
a. *Attempting to measure voltage when using the resistance setting
b. Measuring a voltage too small for the chosen scale
c. Leaving the meter in the milliamps position overnight
d. Not allowing it to warm up properly
18. What instrument is used to measure resistance?
a. *An ohmmeter
b. An oscilloscope
c. A spectrum analyzer
d. A noise bridge
19. triggered sweep in oscilloscope
a. amplitude
b. graticule
c. *timing
d. frequency
20. bearing measurements (in mathematics)
a. x=y
b. *north-south
c. east-west
d. x=-y
21. transformerless
(*…connected to chasis)
22. Simplify tanθcotθ – cos2θ (just solve using trigonometric identities)
(*sin2θ)
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23. Simplify √(x^(4n+1))+x^n √(x^(2n+1)) (algebra)

24. Republic act no. 3846 - An act providing for the regulation of radio stations and radio communications in the
philippine islands, and for other purposes
25. Sec. 40 or RA 9292 –Appropriations
26. PRC modernization act of 2000
(*RA 8981)
27. motion transducer
(*LVDT piezoelectric devices)
28. code of ethics, mutual interest to man
(courtesy, honesty, justice, *courage)
29. log_2⁡〖(X^2+2X+1)+log_2⁡〖…..〗=1〗, 1
30. f(x) = tan x, y-intercept – ans. (0, 0)
31. plot f(x) = b^(x), 0<b<1, (falls from left to right)
32. thermal sensors
(thermocouples, thermistors, RTDs, *all of the above)
33. function of a diode (*rectify)
34. RLC in parallel, R = 10 ohms, L = 0.01 Henry, C = 800 uF, 240V at 50 Hz. Find the impedance (3.808, 8.308,
8.803, 8.038)
35. battery rated 24 V supplies 10 A. terminal voltage is 23.5 V. what is the resistance of the external circuit.
a. *23.5 ohms
b. 24 ohms
c. 240 ohms
d. 235 ohms
36. two resistors in series connected to a 24 v battery. One resistor is 22 ohms with a power of 5 watts. Find the value
of the other resistor. (28.3 ohms)
37. I = 100 mA, R = 500 ohms, t = 2 minutes. Find energy. (600 J)
38. Compared to an effective voltage of 120 VAC, the average heat energy out of a resistor is __________ for a
voltage of 120 VDC.
a. *the same
b. higher
c. lower
d. nonexistent
39. device used for measuring/comparing input and output signals
(*multitrace oscilloscope, oscilloscope, logic probe, spectrum analyzer)
40. when efficiency decreases. What happens?
(*more heat is dissipated, power gain increases, output impedance increases,…..)
41. given Vi = 2 V, gain is 20 dB. What is the output voltage. (20 V)
42. given that a useful power to a load is 1.5 W. if the load is supplied with.. {power calculated as 4.8 V}, how much
power is wasted as heat (3.3 V)
43. What is the formula for converting frequency to wavelength in meters?
a.Wavelength in meters equals frequency in hertz multiplied by 300
b.Wavelength in meters equals frequency in hertz divided by 300
c.Wavelength in meters equals frequency in megahertz divided by 300
*d.Wavelength in meters equals 300 divided by frequency in megahertz
44. administer and enforce the same as well as to promulgate rules and regulations as public safety and interest may
require, to encourage a larger and more effective and efficient use of communication, radio and television
broadcasting facilities and spectrum. – E.O. 546 implementing rules and regulations…. (do 6, do 11, do…, eo 546)
45. slide potentiometer, given two positions.. given at 531.2 mm = 1.27 V, find the voltage at 501.92mm and
656mm…. (1.20V and 1.57V)
46. angles with ratios of 4:3:2. The first and third angles are supplementary. What are the angles? (answer:
120:90:60)
47. which light bulb consumes energy the fastest? (*150, 40, 60 watts, all are the same)
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48. an equivalent source connected parallel to an equivalent resistance (*Norton theorem, thevenin theorem, KCL,
KVL)
49. a wire has a resistance of 0.1 ohm. If its length is doubled, what is its new resistance? (0.2 ohm)
50. which is not true about thermocouples (they do not have a reference junction, *they can be calibrated…)