Lesson 4

Question 1

ITU

Answer 1

International Telecommunication Union

Question 2

RACES

Answer 2

Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service

Question 3

What is the Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES)?

Answer 3

A radio service using amateur frequencies for emergency management or civil defense communications

A radio service using amateur stations for emergency management or civil defense communications

An emergency service using amateur operators certified by a civil defense organization as being enrolled in that organization

Question 4

ARES

Answer 4

Amateur Radio Emergency Service

Question 5

When, under normal circumstances, may a Technician class licensee be the control operator of a station operating in an exclusive Amateur Extra class operator segment of the amateur bands?

Answer 5

at no time

Question 6

What is the FCC Part 97 definition of a beacon?

Answer 6

An amateur station transmitting communications for the purposes of observing propagation or related experimental activities

Question 7

Who must designate the station control operator?

Answer 7

The station licensee

Question 8

With which countries are FCC-licensed amateur radio stations prohibited from exchanging communications?

Answer 8

Any country whose administration has notified the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) that it objects to such communications

Question 9

What type of amateur station simultaneously retransmits the signal of another amateur station on a different channel or channels?

Answer 9

Repeater station

Question 10

What determines the transmitting privileges of an amateur station?

Answer 10

the class of operator license held by the control operator

Question 11

What types of amateur stations can automatically retransmit the signals of other amateur stations?

Answer 11

Repeater, auxiliary, or space stations

Question 12

Which amateurs may contact the International Space Station (ISS) on VHF bands?

Answer 12

Any amateur holding a Technician or higher-class license

Question 13

When may an amateur station transmit without a control operator?

Answer 13

Never

Question 14

Which of the following are required for remote control operation?

Answer 14

The control operator must be at the control point

A control operator is required at all times

The control operator must indirectly manipulate the controls

Question 15

What is an amateur station control point?

Answer 15

The location at which the control operator function is performed

Question 16

Who may be the control operator of a station communicating through an amateur satellite or space station?

Answer 16

Any amateur whose license privileges allow them to transmit on the satellite uplink frequency

Question 17

From which of the following locations may an FCC-licensed amateur station transmit?

Answer 17

From any vessel or craft located in international waters and documented or registered in the United States

Question 18

When is it permissible to transmit messages encoded to obscure their meaning?

Answer 18

Only when transmitting control commands to space stations or radio control craft

Question 19

Under what conditions is an amateur station authorized to transmit music using a phone emission?

Answer 19

When incidental to an authorized retransmission of manned spacecraft communications

Question 21

When the control operator is not the station licensee, who is responsible for the proper operation of the station?

Answer 21

The control operator and the station licensee

Question 22

Which of the following is an example of automatic control?

Answer 22

repeater operation

Question 23

Who is accountable if a repeater inadvertently retransmits communications that violate the FCC rules?

Answer 23

The control operator of the originating station

Question 24

Which of the following is an example of remote control as defined in Part 97?

Answer 24

Operating the station over the internet

Question 25

What is the FCC Part 97 definition of a space station?

Answer 25

An amateur station located more than 50 km above the Earth’s surface