[DARARepeater] Thursday Night Group

[George]

Happy Thanksgiving 

** License Exam Questions of the week

The Thursday Night Group will meet

Thursday, Nov 22 NO MEETING.

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Things this week:  

1.        Happy Thanksgiving 

NO MEETING THIS WEEK.

Please enjoy family and friends and take the time to have a moment of
silence for our Military Woman and Men around the world that give us the
freedoms we enjoy 

 

2.        ** License Exam Questions of the week

One question is drawn from each of the three question pools. Steve, AE8AT,
is providing these questions.  Thanks Steve

 

Answers are at the end of this email.

 

We received a question regarding the strange mix of letters and numbers that
begin each question.  Every exam question has a unique combination of
letter-number-letter-number.  The first letter is a T, G, or E to identify
the question pool: Technician, General, or Extra.  Next is a single number
representing the category, for example, category zero is safety in all three
exam pools.  The first letter-number pair is called the "sub-element".   The
second letter is a "group" containing related questions.  Example,
subelement G8 is Signals and Emissions, with group C of that sub-element
being Digital Emission Modes.  The questions are numbered sequentially:
G8C01, G8C02, and so forth always with a 2-digit number at the end.  The
question identity is included in case of a typo or some "help" from
autocorrect obscures either the question or the answer.  

 

This is quiz 14.  

 

The quiz this week is about meteor scatter.  The Geminid meteor shower is a
couple weeks ahead.  The forecast is for a peak of 100 meteors per hour the
night of December 13-14.  The moon will set around midnight for those that
can stay up that late on a Thursday for the full visual effect of the
shower.

 

T3C07 What band is best suited for communicating via meteor scatter?

A. 10 meters

B. 6 meters

C. 2 meters

D. 70 centimeters

 

G8C11 How are the two separate frequencies of a Frequency Shift Keyed (FSK)
signal identified?

A. Dot and Dash

B. On and Off

C. High and Low

D. Mark and Space

 

E2D01 Which of the following digital modes is especially designed for use
for meteor scatter signals?

A. WSPR

B. FSK441

C. Hellschreiber

D. APRS

For more information about B-Road Thursday Evening Group Projects.

Go to W8BI homepage ( <http://www.w8bi.org> http://www.w8bi.org) under
Education, Thursday Group.

Or

Go to ( <https://sites.google.com/site/darathursdaynite/>
https://sites.google.com/site/darathursdaynite)

There is a lot of information on this web site with additional content.

Hope to see you on Thursday evening's.

Everyone is invited!!! 

 

 

Answers:

T3C07 = B. The Technician question asked for the BEST frequency. The Extra
question pool contains a similar question (E3A09) where the answer is 28 MHz
- 148 MHz.  The 2018 ARRL Handbook puts the possible range even wider at 28
MHz - 432 MHz, which lists the BEST frequency as the 6m band.

G8C11 = D.

E2D01 = B.

 



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