Question Pool -- Category E
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- E1A
- Operating standards: frequency privileges for Extra class
amateurs; emission standards; message forwarding; frequency sharing
between ITU Regions; FCC modification of station license; 30-meter
band sharing; stations aboard ships or aircraft; telemetry;
telecommand of an amateur station; authorized telecommand
transmissions; definitions of image, pulse and test
- E1B
- Station restrictions: restrictions on station locations;
restricted operation; teacher as control operator; station antenna
structures; definition and operation of remote control and automatic
control; control link
- E1C
- Reciprocal operating: definition of reciprocal operating permit;
purpose of reciprocal agreement rules; alien control operator
privileges; identification; application for reciprocal permit;
reciprocal permit license term (Note: This includes CEPT and IARP.)
- E1D
- Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES): definition;
purpose; station registration; station license required; control
operator requirements; control operator privileges; frequencies
available; limitations on use of RACES frequencies; points of
communication for RACES operation; permissible communications
- E1E
- Amateur Satellite Service: definition; purpose; station license
required for space station; frequencies available; telecommand
operation: definition; eligibility; telecommand station (definition);
space telecommand station; special provisions; telemetry: definition;
special provisions; space station: definition; eligibility; special
provisions; authorized frequencies (space station); notification
requirements; earth operation: definition; eligibility {97.209(a)};
authorized frequencies (Earth station)
- E1F
- Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (VECs): definition; VEC
qualifications; VEC agreement; scheduling examinations; coordinating
VEs; reimbursement for expenses {97.527}; accrediting VEs; question
pools; Volunteer Examiners (VEs): definition; requirements;
accreditation; reimbursement for expenses; VE conduct; preparing an
examination; examination elements; definition of code and written
elements; preparation responsibility; examination requirements;
examination credit; examination procedure; examination administration;
temporary operating authority
- E1G
- Type acceptance of external RF power amplifiers and external RF
power amplifier kits; Line A; National Radio Quiet Zone; business
communications; definition and operation of spread spectrum; auxiliary
station operation
- E2A
- Amateur Satellites: Orbital mechanics; Frequencies available for
satellite operation; Satellite hardware; Operating through amateur
satellites
- E2B
- Television: fast scan television (FSTV) standards; slow scan
television (SSTV) standards; facsimile (fax) communications
- E2C
- Contest and DX operating; spread-spectrum transmissions;
automatic HF forwarding.
- E2D
- Digital Operating: HF digital communications (ie, PacTOR, CLOVER,
AMTOR, PSK31, HF packet); packet clusters; HF digital bulletin boards
- E3A
- Earth-Moon-Earth (EME or moonbounce) communications; meteor
scatter
- E3B
- Transequatorial; long path; gray line
- E3C
- Auroral propagation; selective fading; radio-path horizon; take-
off angle over flat or sloping terrain; earth effects on propagation
- E4A
- Test equipment: spectrum analyzers (interpreting spectrum
analyzer displays; transmitter output spectrum); logic probes
(indications of high and low states in digital circuits; indications
of pulse conditions in digital circuits)
- E4B
- Frequency measurement devices (i.e., frequency counter,
oscilloscope Lissajous figures, dip meter); meter performance
limitations; oscilloscope performance limitations; frequency counter
performance limitations
- E4C
- Receiver performance characteristics (i.e., phase noise,
desensitization, capture effect, intercept point, noise floor, dynamic
range {blocking and IMD}, image rejection, MDS, signal-to-noise-
ratio); intermodulation and cross-modulation interference
- E4D
- Noise suppression: ignition noise; alternator noise (whine);
electronic motor noise; static; line noise
- E4E
- Component mounting techniques (i.e., surface, dead bug {raised},
circuit board); direction finding: techniques and equipment; fox
hunting
- E5A
- Characteristics of resonant circuits: Series resonance (capacitor
and inductor to resonate at a specific frequency); Parallel resonance
(capacitor and inductor to resonate at a specific frequency); half-
power bandwidth
- E5B
- Exponential charge/discharge curves (time constants): definition;
time constants in RL and RC circuits;
- E5C
- Impedance diagrams: Basic principles of Smith charts; impedance
of RLC networks at specified frequencies
- E5D
- Phase angle between voltage and current; impedances and phase
angles of series and parallel circuits; algebraic operations using
complex numbers: rectangular coordinates (real and imaginary parts);
polar coordinates (magnitude and angle)
- E5E
- Skin effect; electrostatic and electromagnetic fields
- E5F
- Circuit Q; reactive power; power factor
- E5G
- Effective radiated power; system gains and losses
- E5H
- Replacement of voltage source and resistive voltage divider with
equivalent voltage source and one resistor (Thevenin's Theorem).
- E5I
- Photoconductive principles and effects
- E6A
- Semiconductor material: Germanium, Silicon, P-type, N-type;
Transistor types: NPN, PNP, junction, unijunction, power; field-effect
transistors (FETs): enhancement mode; depletion mode; MOS; CMOS; N-
channel; P-channel
- E6B
- Diodes: Zener, tunnel, varactor, hot-carrier, junction, point
contact, PIN and light emitting; operational amplifiers (inverting
amplifiers, noninverting amplifiers, voltage gain, frequency
response, FET amplifier circuits, single-stage amplifier
applications); phase-locked loops
- E6C
- TTL digital integrated circuits; CMOS digital integrated
circuits; gates
- E6D
- Vidicon and cathode-ray tube devices; charge-coupled devices
(CCDs); liquid crystal displays (LCDs); toroids: permeability, core
material, selecting, winding
- E6E
- Quartz crystal (frequency determining properties as used in
oscillators and filters); monolithic amplifiers (MMICs)
- E7A
- Digital logic circuits: Flip flops; Astable and monostable
multivibrators; Gates (AND, NAND, OR, NOR); Positive and negative
logic
- E7B
- Amplifier circuits: Class A, Class AB, Class B, Class C, amplifier
operating efficiency (ie, DC input versus PEP), transmitter final
amplifiers; amplifier circuits: tube, bipolar transistor, FET
- E7C
- Impedance-matching networks: Pi, L, Pi-L; filter circuits:
constant K, M-derived, band-stop, notch, crystal lattice, pi-section,
T-section, L-section, Butterworth, Chebyshev, elliptical; filter
applications (audio, IF, digital signal processing {DSP})
- E7D
- Oscillators: types, applications, stability; voltage-regulator
circuits: discrete, integrated and switched mode
- E7E
- Modulators: reactance, phase, balanced; detectors; mixer stages;
frequency synthesizers
- E7F
- Digital frequency divider circuits; frequency marker generators;
frequency counters
- E7G
- Active audio filters: characteristics; basic circuit design;
preselector applications
- E8A
- AC waveforms: sine wave, square wave, sawtooth wave; AC
measurements: peak, peak-to-peak and root-mean-square (RMS) value,
peak-envelope-power (PEP) relative to average
- E8B
- FCC emission designators versus emission types; modulation
symbols and transmission characteristics; modulation methods;
modulation index; deviation ratio; pulse modulation: width; position
- E8C
- Digital signals: CW; baudot; ASCII; packet; AMTOR; Clover;
information rate vs bandwidth
- E8D
- Amplitude compandored single-sideband (ACSSB); spread-spectrum
communications
- E8E
- Peak amplitude (positive and negative); peak-to-peak values:
measurements; Electromagnetic radiation; wave polarization; signal-to-
noise (S/N) ratio
- E9A
- Isotropic radiators: definition; used as a standard for
comparison; radiation pattern; basic antenna parameters: radiation
resistance and reactance (including wire dipole, folded dipole), gain,
beamwidth, efficiency
- E9B
- Free-space antenna patterns: E and H plane patterns (ie, azimuth
and elevation in free-space); gain as a function of pattern; antenna
design (computer modeling of antennas)
- E9C
- Phased vertical antennas; radiation patterns; beverage antennas;
rhombic antennas: resonant; nonresonant; radiation pattern; antenna
patterns: elevation above real ground, ground effects as related to
polarization, take-off angles as a function of height above ground
- E9D
- Space and satellite communications antennas: gain; beamwidth;
tracking; losses in real antennas and matching: resistivity losses,
losses in resonating elements (loading coils, matching networks, etc.
{ie, mobile, trap}); SWR bandwidth; efficiency
- E9E
- Matching antennas to feed lines; characteristics of open and
shorted feed lines: 1/8 wavelength; 1/4 wavelength; 3/8 wavelength;
1/2 wavelength; 1/4 wavelength matching transformers; feed lines: coax
versus open-wire; velocity factor; electrical length; transformation
characteristics of line terminated in impedance not equal to
characteristic impedance
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