[K3PZN-List] Could you pass the CCYO pretest for field day

[Douglas Kearney]

Good Afternoon All,

 

            The Carroll County Youth Organization is in full swing preparing
for field day. The GOTA station is being used as a training opportunity for
the Carroll County Youth Organization. If you have children or youth that
you would like to participate in field day please contact me immediately so
that I can get you both the information that will need to be reviewed prior
to field day. The point of reviewing this information is that it will make
it much more enjoyable for the young person participating in field day. As
you can see this has multiple purposes. First, the information that I have
asked them to learn will make their awareness in the Field Exercise much
higher then without that base of knowledge. Secondly, the information is
test information that will be required to be mastered for their license
examinations. Thirdly, it demonstrates their commitment to learning about
electronics, engineering, and ham radio.

 

 

I have asked the group to study the following information prior to field
day:

 

1)       Be able to identify the frequency bands for the Extra Class
Privileges in the following bands:

 

160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10, 6, 2, 1.25 Meters

 

2)       Be able to identify the following in Morse Code:

 

CQ, DE, FD, QSL, QRZ, Period(.), Question (?), N5LBJ

 

3)       Able to recite the ITU Phonetic Alphabet

4)       Able to convert UTC -> Local Time and Local Time -> UTC

5)       Able to use the RS part of the RST system to quantify signals.

6)       Learn the ARRL procedural prosigns 

7)       Learn the following Q signals

 

QRL, QRM, QRN, QRO, QRP, QRQ, QRS, QRT, QRS, QRU, QRV, QRY, QSK, QSL, QSO,
QST, QSY

 

8)       Identify the states where the 81 ARRL Field Organizations are from.

9)       Propagation for 160, 80, 40, 20 , 15, 10, 6, 2, 1.25 Meter bands

10)   Description of the following modes: SSB, CW, AM, FM, FSK, AMTOR,
PACTOR, PSK31, PACKET, RTTY, Slow Scan TV, Fast Scan TV, WIFI

 

So, as you can see these kids are serious about operating and have made a
commitment to learn all of this material. So, please give them a pat on the
back when you see them at Field Day. They will primarily be operating at the
GOTA station but, I am sure that they will be touring the FD grounds to take
a break from time to time. Please welcome them in to your stations, show
them around, answer their questions, and feel free to ask them if they would
like to operate. 

 

Remember that they are our future so we ALL need to invest sometime in
theirs.

 

Here is their pretest, how would you do???

 

PRETEST

 

1)       What is the EXTRA class frequency privileges in the 80 Meter band?

 

A)      2.5 Mhz - 3.0 Mhz

B)      3.0 Mhz - 3.5 Mhz

C)      3.5 Mhz - 4.0 Mhz

D)      4.0 Mhz - 4.5 Mhz

 

2)       What does the following in Morse Code represent?

 

Dah di Dah dit, Dah Dah di Dah, di di dah dit, dah did it or _ . _ ., _ _ .
_, .. _ ., _..

 

A)      CQ, FT

B)      MY, QT

C)      CQ, FD

D)      None of the above

 

3)       What is the letter Z in the Phonetic Alphabet?

 

A)      Zule

B)      Zambia

C)      Zulu

D)      Zare

 

4)       If dinner is at 18:00 hours sharp on this coming Saturday night,
what time would that be in UTC

 

A)      18:00

B)      16:00

C)      20:00

D)      22:00

 

5)       What does 59 mean in the RST system represent?

 

A)      Readability is lousy; Your signal is fading.

B)      You readability is in a French; Your signal is undetectable.

C)      Readability is good; Your signal is OK.

D)      You are perfectly readable; Your signal is extremely strong.

 

6)       What does KN with a line over top of it mean?

 

A)      Back to you

B)      Wait, and standby

C)      Closing station

D)      Go only

 

7)       What does QSL? Mean.

 

A)      Is my frequency is drifting?

B)      What is your location?

C)      Who is calling me?

D)      Did you copy everything that I sent OK?

 

8)       What state is the ARRL section SJV located in?

 

A)      Oregon

B)      Washington

C)      California

D)      Arizona

 

9)       Which band would you expect to present the most activity and
propagation at the start of Field Day?

 

A)      21 Meter Band

B)      160 Meter Band

C)      2 Meter Band

D)      20 Meter Band

 

10)   What digital mode is APRS based on

 

A)      PSK35

B)      MFSK12

C)      Packet

D)      PSK31

 

      Extra Credit worth 2 points.

 

            What time in UTC would breakfast be if the current date is
January 1, 2004 and you were told that breakfast would be served at 7AM EST.


 

            Hint: Daylight Savings Time