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TNG – Thursday, February 20, 2025

This week, Steve, AE8AT, is back with another analysis of amateur radio contest logs.

DARA Clubhouse, 6619 Bellefontaine Rd. Dayton, OH 45424. The meeting begins around 7pm. The presentation begins at 7:30pm

If anyone wants to or knows someone who might want to give a presentation at a future TNG or if you have a topic that you would like to see, please let me know.

Everyone is invited!!!

73,
de Mark, N8ME

License Exam Quiz #307
de Steve, AE8AT

Like many of the Thursday Night Group’s meetings (where this quiz was spawned), the topic turns to anarchy! The questions were selected randomly from the least used section of each question pool.

T5A12 What describes the number of times per second that an alternating current makes a complete cycle?

A. Pulse rate

B. Speed

C. Wavelength

D. Frequency

G4D10 How close to the lower edge of a band’s phone segment should your displayed carrier frequency be when using 3 kHz wide LSB?

A. At least 3 kHz above the edge of the segment

B. At least 3 kHz below the edge of the segment

C. At least 1 kHz below the edge of the segment

D. At least 1 kHz above the edge of the segment

E8D11 What is one advantage of using ASCII code for data communications?

A. It includes built-in error correction features

B. It contains fewer information bits per character than any other code

C. It is possible to transmit both uppercase and lowercase text

D. It uses one character as a shift code to send numeric and special characters

Answers:

T5A12 = D

G4D10 = A

E8D11 = C