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ITU along which other organization details Distress, Urgency and Safety procedures?
ICAO
What is the condition of being threatened by serious and/or imminet danger and requiring immediate assistance defined as?
Distress
Which condition concerns the security of a ship, aircraft or other vehicle, or of some person on board or within sight, but which does not require immediate assistance?
Urgency
Which type of traffic has absolute priority over all other transmissions?
Distress
Which service is between coast stations and ship stations, or between ship stations, in which survival craft stations may also participate?
Maritime Mobile Service
Which organization administers the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System?
IMO
Which year was the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System fully implemented?
1999
Approximately how many nautical miles are GMDSS Area A1 Operational areas from shore based VHF coast stations?
20-30
Approximately how many nautical miles are GMDSS Area A1 Operational areas from shore based MF coast Stations?
100-150
Which system uses modern technology , including satellite and digital selective calling techniques on MF,HF, and VHF bands, known as terrestrial systems, enabling a distress alert to be transmitted and received automatically over short and long distances?
GMDSS
Which procedure comprise all the communications relating to the immediate assistance required by the mobile station in trouble?
Distress
Which word when using voice does the distress signal contain
MAYDAY
What are the two primary sinusoidal audio frequency tones transmitted alternatively in alarm signals used to warn operators that a distress call or message is to follow?
2200 Hz and 1300 Hz
How many seconds is the alarm signal continuously sent to warn operators that a distress call or message is to follow?
30-60
Which paging technique is used to automate the initial call between two stations that operates on MF,HF and VHF marine bands for distress, urgency, and safety alerting?
DSC
How many times is MAYDAY spoken during a distress call?
3
How many times is SOS typed during a distress call using RATT/NDPB?
3
Which prosign is used during a distress call using RATT/NDPB
DE
What is the International Distress frequency for voice?
2182 kHz
What is the International Distress, Safety, and Calling frequency for the maritime mobile VHF radiotelephone service?
156.8 MHz
Which signal is used to impose silence either on all stations of the mobile service in the area or on any station which interferes with the distress traffic when using RATT/NDPB
QRT SOS
Which frequencies are continously monitored by aeronautical stations for aircrafts in distress?
121.5 MHZ and/or 243 MHz
Which signal is used to impose silence either on all stations of the mobile service in the area or on any station which interferes with the distress traffic when using RATT.NDPB?
QRT SOS
Which signal indicates that the calling station has a very urgent message to transmit concerning the safety of a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle, and/or the safety of personnel?
PAN PAN
Urgency signals have priority over all other communications except for which other type?
Distress
How many times is the group of words PAN PAN transmitted in voice urgency signals?
3
Which group of letters is transmitted over RATT three times in urgency signals
XXX
Any station that hears the Urgency signal must continue to listen for at least how many minutes?
3
Which signal indicates that the station is about to transmit a message containing an important navigational or meteorological warning?
Safety
Which word is spoken three times and transmitted before the call in safety signals
SECURATE
For the purpose of announcing and identifying aircraft for medical transports, a transmission of the uregency signal shall be followed by which group of letters over RATT/NBDP
YYY
To indicate distress a gun or other explosive fired at intervals spaced about how far apart can be used?
1 minute
The International Code Signal of distress indicated by which code group can be used to indicate distress?
NC
A smoke signal giving off a volume of which color of smoke can be used to indicate distress?
Orange
Which squawking code can be used to indicate distress on IFF mode 3/A?
7700
What should a piloet make the aircraft do to acknowledge that a ground distress signal has been seen and understood?
Rock the wings
What is the minimum length that group distress signals should be?
8 feet
What is the Internation Aeronautical Emergency Frequency?
121.5 MHz
What is the Distress and Emergency Frequency?
243.0 MHz
Which frequencies are used to supplement the carrier frequency 2182 kHz for DISTRESS and SAFETY purposes and for call and reply?
4125 kHz and 6215 kHz
Which frequency is for international use by the maritime mobile VHF radiotelephone service as a distress, safety and calling frequency?
156.8 MHz
Which frequency is for world-wide use when communicating with enroute aircraft participating in SAR operations?
123.1 MHz
Which prefix is used for call signs for assigned SAR craft?
RESCUE
What is the International Emergency Distress Signal (SOS)?
MAYDAY
What is the International Emergency Safety Signal?
SECURITY
What is the International Emergency Urgency Signal?
PAN PAN
What is the frequency range managed by ACP 190 US SUPP-1?
9kHz to 275 GHz
Which year was the role of the International Telegraph Union expanded to include access to the radio spectrum?
1903
Which year did the ITU become a specialized agency of the United Nations?
1947
Which agency regulates the global use of the radio spectrum
ITU
What article of the ITU Constitution states that ITU members retain freedom with regard to military radio installations
Article 48
What is performed to meet the needs of radio services within a geographic area and is based on the allocation tables in the Radio Regulations?
Frequency planning
What is it known as in military operations when the same frequency is used on a predetermined schedule?
Timesharing
Which type of calculations are necessary to guide the choice of the most suitable communication techniques to be used as well as where to place radio repeaters, surveillance, and weapons sites?
Propagation
To perform propagation calculations it is essential to have knowledge of the effects of atmospheric absorption and climactic conditions for frequencies above about which frequency
10 GHz
What is the authorization given by an appropriate authority for a radio station to use a radio frequency or radio frequency channel under specified conditions?
Assignment
Where does the ITU coordinate and register frequency assignments if protection beyond national borders is appropriate?
IFL
What is defined as one or more frequencies or blocks of frequencies within a band, given to a subordinate authority charged with the responsibility or providing frequency assignments?
Allotment
Which organization plans the civil aviation communications band and the frequency bands for aeronautical navigation systems?
ICAO
Which type of radio interference is defined as that which endangers the functioning of a radio navigation service or other safety service or seriously degrades obstructs, or repeatedly interrupts a radio communications service operating in accordance with the Radio Regulations?
Harmful
What does military spectrum management aim to control the use of?
Electromagnetic Environment
What is the application of spectrum management control concepts to hostilities referred to as
BSM
Which type of operations are authorized that will not cause harmful interference to host nation radio services or those in surrounding countries?
NIB
The BSM process and plan are achieved with the involvement of three branches to include Intelligence (C2), Operations (C3), and what else?
Communications (C6)
The CTFC along with what else has the authority to assign/allot frequencies to operational forces?
Combined Spectrum Management Cell (CSMC)
Which branch is the CSMC usually established in by the CTFC?
C6
How many phases is the spectrum management process for a military operation?
4
What has the overall responsibility to coordinate the spectrum requirements for the force?
CSMC
What is the overall spectrum requirement for the force expressed as?
Electronic Order of Battle (EOB)
Who is responsible for forwarding all requests for frequencies to the CSMC
National Spectrum Manager
Who is responsible for resolving spectrum conflicts between components
CSMC
What is the aim of the planning phase of the spectrum management process
BSM Plan
What must be established by the spectrum manager in the initial stages within the planning phase?
Overall frequency requirements
What should be used to identify the location and responsibilities of managers within the spectrum management process?
Spectrum management structure
Which type of data is required to predict the propagation of radio equipment to be established in order to identify where re-use of frequencies is possible?
Topographical
Who is responsible for assembling an electronic order of battle (EOB)for the force?
CSMC
Who is responsible for assigning frequencies in civil and military bands to Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO)
CSMC
What is defined as any emission that degrades, obstructs or repeatedly interrupts military operational systems to the extent that operational effectiveness is impaired?
Harmful interference
What should give specific guidance on the extent, purpose, format and distribution of the interference reporting required?
BSM Plan
What are essential in effecting rapid data exchange between nations?
Standard data exchange formats
who determines the data format and data fields required for requesting spectrum support?
CSMC
What can be set up at distant ends of an HF circuit to provide a measurement of operating parameters such as received power, propagation modes signal strength?
Chirp sounders
What is the sweep duration of the TCI/BR transmitter employed by CCEB nations
280 seconds
What affords communication staffs the ability to identify in “real time” the optimum frequencies from those assigned for use over a given circuit path?
Ionospheric sounder
Sounder transmitters shall be classified as either common-user or what else
Special-purpose
Each transmitter in the Common-User Sounder Network shall be required to provide start-sweeping timing accurate to 1 microsecond, preferred, but at least to how many milliseconds
100
Sweep intervals of less than than how many minutes should be avoided when special-purpose sounder transmitters are operated?
15
What is the maximum number of special-purpose sounder transmitters that may be operating at any time per area unless dictated by special circumstances?
4
Federal agencies are required to have in place cyber incident handling mechanisms in accordance with which act?
FISMA
How many services does the Department of Defense require Tier II Computer Network Defense Service Providers (CNDSPs) to provide?
3
Which program was developed by the Department of Defense to provide specific guidance for CC/S/A/FAs regarding the requirements for cyber incident handling and reporting
Cyber Incident Handling Program
Joint Staff and CC/S/A/FAs will comply with DoD Cyber Incident Handling Program responsibilites in accordance with which reference?
CJCSI 6510.01