E7E  Modulators: reactance, phase, balanced; detectors; mixer stages;

frequency synthesizers

 

E7E01 (B)

How is an F3E FM-phone emission produced?

A.  With a balanced modulator on the audio amplifier

B.  With a reactance modulator on the oscillator

C.  With a reactance modulator on the final amplifier

D.  With a balanced modulator on the oscillator

 

E7E02 (C)

How does a reactance modulator work?

A.  It acts as a variable resistance or capacitance to produce FM signals

B.  It acts as a variable resistance or capacitance to produce AM signals

C.  It acts as a variable inductance or capacitance to produce FM signals

D.  It acts as a variable inductance or capacitance to produce AM signals

 

E7E03 (C)

How does a phase modulator work?

A.  It varies the tuning of a microphone preamplifier to produce FM signals

B.  It varies the tuning of an amplifier tank circuit to produce AM signals

C.  It varies the tuning of an amplifier tank circuit to produce FM signals

D.  It varies the tuning of a microphone preamplifier to produce AM signals

 

E7E04 (A)

How can a single-sideband phone signal be generated?

A.  By using a balanced modulator followed by a filter

B.  By using a reactance modulator followed by a mixer

C.  By using a loop modulator followed by a mixer

D.  By driving a product detector with a DSB signal

 

E7E05 (D)

What audio shaping network is added at a transmitter to proportionally attenuate the lower audio frequencies, giving an even spread to the energy in the audio band?

A.  A de-emphasis network

B.  A heterodyne suppressor

C.  An audio prescaler

D.  A pre-emphasis network

 

E7E06 (A)

What audio shaping network is added at a receiver to restore proportionally attenuated lower audio frequencies?

A.  A de-emphasis network

B.  A heterodyne suppressor

C.  An audio prescaler

D.  A pre-emphasis network

 

E7E07 (D)

What is the mixing process?

A.  The elimination of noise in a wideband receiver by phase comparison

B.  The elimination of noise in a wideband receiver by phase differentiation

C.  The recovery of the intelligence from a modulated RF signal

D.  The combination of two signals to produce sum and difference frequencies

 

E7E08 (C)

What are the principal frequencies that appear at the output of a mixer circuit?

A.  Two and four times the original frequency

B.  The sum, difference and square root of the input frequencies

C.  The original frequencies and the sum and difference frequencies

D.  1.414 and 0.707 times the input frequency

 

E7E09 (A)

What occurs in a receiver when an excessive amount of signal energy reaches the mixer circuit?

A.  Spurious mixer products are generated

B.  Mixer blanking occurs

C.  Automatic limiting occurs

D.  A beat frequency is generated

 

E7E10 (C)

What type of frequency synthesizer circuit uses a stable voltage- controlled oscillator, programmable divider, phase detector, loop filter and a reference frequency source?

A.  A direct digital synthesizer

B.  A hybrid synthesizer

C.  A phase-locked loop synthesizer

D.  A diode-switching matrix synthesizer

 

E7E11 (A)

What type of frequency synthesizer circuit uses a phase accumulator, lookup table, digital to analog converter and a low-pass antialias filter?

A.  A direct digital synthesizer

B.  A hybrid synthesizer

C.  A phase-locked loop synthesizer

D.  A diode-switching matrix synthesizer

 

E7E12 (D)

What are the main blocks of a direct digital frequency synthesizer?

A.  A variable-frequency crystal oscillator, phase accumulator, digital to analog converter and a loop filter

B.  A stable voltage-controlled oscillator, programmable divider, phase detector, loop filter and a digital to analog converter

C.  A variable-frequency oscillator, programmable divider, phase detector and a low-pass antialias filter

D.  A phase accumulator, lookup table, digital to analog converter and a low-pass antialias filter

 

E7E13 (B)

What information is contained in the lookup table of a direct digital frequency synthesizer?

A.  The phase relationship between a reference oscillator and the output waveform

B.  The amplitude values that represent a sine-wave output

C.  The phase relationship between a voltage-controlled oscillator and the output waveform

D.  The synthesizer frequency limits and frequency values stored in the radio memories

 

E7E14 (C)

What are the major spectral impurity components of direct digital synthesizers?

A.  Broadband noise

B.  Digital conversion noise

C.  Spurs at discrete frequencies

D.  Nyquist limit noise

 

E7E15 (A)

What are the major spectral impurity components of phase-locked loop synthesizers?

A.  Broadband noise

B.  Digital conversion noise

C.  Spurs at discrete frequencies

D.  Nyquist limit noise


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