Lesson1:

1. The phase angle of an LC circuit at resonance is

Ans: 0 degrees
2. Below resonance, a series LC circuit appears
Ans: Capacitive
3. Above resonance, a parallel LC circuit appears
Ans: Inductive
4. A parallel LC circuit has a resonant frequency of 3.75
MHz and a Q of 125. What is the bandwidth?
Ans: 30 kHz
5. What is the resonant frequency of an LC circuit with
values L = 100 microH and C = 63.3 pF
Ans: 2 MHz
6. In an RC low-pass filter, the output is taken across the
Ans: capacitor
7. On logarithmic graph paper, a 10 to 1 range of
frequencies called
Ans: decade
8. The cut-off frequency, fc, of a filter is the frequency at
which the output is
Ans: reduced to 70.7% of its maximum
9. The decibel attenuation of a passive filter at the cut-off
frequency is
Ans: -3 db
10. To increase the cut-off frequency of an RL high-pass
filter, one can
Ans: both B and C (decrease the value of L and
increase the value of R)

Lesson2:
1. Light frequency below 400 microns
Ans: ultra-violet
2. In a given bandwidth, more channels are available for
signals in the range of
Ans: EHF
3. Equipment that represents the signal in the frequency
domain is the
Ans: Spectrum Analyzer
4. A complete communication system should include
Ans: Transmitter, a receiver and a spectrum
analyzer
5. The bandwidth required for a modulated carrier
depends on
Ans: The baseband frequency range
6. The baseband bandwidth for a voice-grade
(telephone) signal is
Ans: Approximately 3 kHZ
7. A simultaneous two-way communication is called
Ans: full duplex
8. Recovering the originally transmitted signal is called
Ans: Demodulation
9. Short waves fall under
Ans: HF

10. Microwaves start at

Ans: UHF
Lesson 3:
1. A shot noise is generated in the
Ans: transistor and diode
2. An noise figure is a measure of
Ans: how much noise does an amplifier adds to
a signal
3. It is a kind of noise that is mutually related to the input
and is produced because of nonlinear amplification
Ans: Correlated Noise
4. A naturally occurring disturbance that originates from
the earths atmosphere
Ans: Atmospheric Noise
5. Man-made noise come from the
Ans: Equipment that sparks
6. Most internal noise comes from the
Ans: Thermal agitation
7. The ideal noise figure is
Ans: 0 dB
8. An amplifier has an output S/N that is half of its input
S/N What is the noise figure?
Ans: 2 dB
9. Determine the noise current of a device for a current
of 5 mA and a bandwidth of 3.2 kHz
Ans: 1.6 nA
10. What is the equivalent noise temperature for a noise
figure of 3 dB?
Ans: 580 K
Lesson 4:
1. An antenna transmits an AM signal having a total
power content of 15 kW. Determine the power being
transmitted at each of the sidebands when the percent
modulation is 85%
Ans: 1990 W
2. In the designation of bandwidth and emission, what
letter in the first symbol reperesents an ISB signal?
Ans: B
3. A modulator circuit performs what mathematical
operation on its two inputs?
Ans: Multiplication
4. An AM transmitter is modulated by two sine waves at
1 kH and 2.5 kHz, with modulations of 25% and 50%
respectively. What is the effective modulation index?
Ans: 0.75
5. A 2000 Hz audio signal having amplitude of 15V
amplitude modulates a 100 kHz carrier, which has a
peak value of 25V when not modulated. Calculate the
modulation factor of the modulated wave.
Ans: 0.6
6. In the previous problem, what frequencies would show
up in a spectrum analysis of the AM wave?

Ans: 98 kHz, 100 kHz, 102 kHz

7. What is the required bandwidth to transmit the AM
signal in the previous problem?
Ans: 4KHz
8. A bandwidth of 12 MHz becomes available for
assignment. If assigned for TV broadcast service, only
two channels could be accommodated. Determine the
number of AM stations that could be broadcast
simultaneously if the maximum modulating frequency is
limited to 5 kHz.
Ans: 1200
9. Which is true about over modulation?
Ans: Over modulation produces a distortion at
the demodulated output
10. The percentage of modulation for a maximum
amplitude of information transmission is
Ans: 100 %
Lesson 5:
1. An AM has a total transmitted power of 4 kW when
modulated 85%. What is the total transmitted power if
J3E was used instead?
Ans: 530.76 W
2. CB radios were developed using the full-carrier DSB
AM. It operates using 40 channels, each 10kHz wide.
When the SSBSC is used, the same carrier frequencies
are used as with the conventional AM but the
transceivers are switchable to either lower or upper
sideband. How many channels are available when the
SSB is used?
Ans: 80
3. Tht type of AM signal that is used in TV broadcasting
is called
Ans: C3F
4. Which of the following statements is not true about
single sideband transmission?
Ans: None of the above
5. If transmitter power of 100 W is sufficient for reliable
communication over a certain path using the SSB,
approximately what power level would be required using
the DSB?
Ans: 200 W
6. If a transmitter power of 100 W is sufficient for reliable
communication over a certain path using the SSB,
approximately what power level would be required using
DSB? What is the power required for a full-carrier AM?
Ans: 600 W
7. Anticipating single sideband AM, what percentage of
the total power is saved by suppressing the carrier and
one sideband while transmitting the other sideband only
for m = 0.75?
Ans: 89%
8. If the carrier of a 100% modulated AM wave is
suppressed, the percentage power saving will be

Ans: 66.66
9. One of the following cannot be used to remove the
unwanted sideband in SSB. This is the
Ans: detector
10. To provide two or more voice circuits with the same
carrier, it is necessary to use the
Ans: ISB
Lesson 6:
1. What is the major advantage of the superheterodyne
receiver over the tuned radio frequency receiver?
Ans: good selectivity
2. One of the functions of the RF amplifier in a
superhetrodyne receiver is to
Ans: improve the rejection of the image
frequency.
3. Indicate the false statement. The superheterodyne
receiver replaces the TRF receiver when the latter
suffers from
Ans: insufficient gain and sensitivity
4. A sueprheterodyne receiver is tuned to a frequency of
5MHz when the oscillator frequency is 6.65 MHz. What
is the IF?
Ans: 11.65 MHz
5. The intermediate frequency for an AM broadcasting
system per FCC rules is
Ans: 455 kHz
6. What parameter enables a receiver to detect the
weakest possible signal level?
Ans: Selectivity
7. A superhetrodyne receiver with an IF of 450 kHz is
tuned to a signal at 1200 kHz. The image frequency is
Ans: 2100 kHz
8. What is the local oscillator frequency needed in the
previous problem to produce an IF of 450 kHZ?
Ans: 1650 KHz
9. Which section of a superheterodyne receiver
concverts the IF signal to original source information?
Ans: Detector
10. Most of the gain and selectivity in a superheterodyne
receiver is obtained in the
Ans: IF Section
Lesson 7:
1. On an FM signal, maximum deviation occurs at what
point on the modulating signal?
Ans: Both positive and negative peak amplitude
2. In PM, a frequency shift occurs while ____ of the
modulating single changes
Ans: Phase Angle
3. The maximum frequency deviation of a PM signal
occurs at
Ans: Zero crossing points

4. In PM, carrier frequency deviation is not proportional

to the
Ans: Carrier amplitude and the frequency
5. To compensate for increases in the carrier frequency
deviation with an increase in the modulating signal
frequency, what circuit is used between the modulating
signal and the phase modulator?
Ans: Band-pass filter
6. The FM produced by PM is called the
Ans: indirect FM
7. If the amplitude of the modulating signal applied to a
phase modulator is constant, the output signal will be
Ans: The carrier amplitude
8. A 100 MHz carrier is deviated 50 kHZ by a 4 kHX
signal. The modulation index is
Ans: 12.5
9. The maximum deviation of an FM carrier is 2 kHz by a
maximum modulating signal of 400 Hz. The deviation
ratio is
Ans: 5
10. A 70 kHz carrier has a frequency deviation of 4 kHz
with a 1000 Hz signal. How many significant sidebands
pairs are produced?
Ans: 7
Lesson 8:
1. It refers to the portion of a link that carries a
transmission between a given pair of lines
Ans: Channel
2. How many voice channels are there in a master
group?

Ans: 600
3. It is the basic building block of the FDM hierarchy.
Ans: Message channel
4. It usually accomplishes frequency modulation in
frequency division multiplexing systems
Ans: VCO
5. The process of receiving a single signal that produces
multiple channels simultaneously
Ans: Multiplexing
6. Which statement is correct?
Ans: Multiplexing uses multiple channels to
transmit a single signal
7. It is the most significant circuit in a demultiplexer
Ans: Bandpass filter
8. An analog multiplexing technique where the optical
fiber data rate is higher than the data rate of the metallic
transmission cable. It is also used to combine optical
signals.
Ans: TDM
9. CDMA stands for
Ans: Carrier Division Multiple Access
10. Which of the following is not a common FDM
application?
Ans: Telemetry