SCARS LIVE QUESTIONS
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LIVE QUESTIONS FOR MAY 9 &10, 2026
SUPPLIED BY K2HA
1, What is needed between a transceiver/tuner and an attached antenna if the user would like to successfully radiate RF to make contacts?
A: Feed Line
B: Lightning Rods
C: Terminal Node Controller (TNC)
D: 0 Ohm to 25 Ohm Ground Connection
2, In what year was Samuel Morse granted a patent for his invention of the Telegraph?
A: 1830
B: 1844
C: 1840
D: 1845
3, Which of these functions of aluminum house wiring is most likely to cause fires?
A: Expansion and Contraction
B: Oxidation and Corrosion
C: Thermal Expansion/Weakness
D: Lighter weight & cheaper than copper
4, "Thermionic Emission" refers to?
A: VHF/UHF propagation phenomenon
B: Vacuum Tube Cathode
C: Effect of antenna current concentration
D: A type of RFI leakage
THE ANSWERS TO THE ABOVE QUESTIONS WILL BE POSTED HERE SHORTLY AFTER THE CONCLUSION OF THE SUNDAY RAGCHEW NET
LIVE QUESTIONS FOR MAY 2 & 3, 2026
SUPPLIED BY K2HA
1, The Kraus Approximate Formula is used to calculate
A: circuit Q
B: antenna gain
C: circuit bandwidth
D: antenna beamwidth
2, The Miller effect is a counter-productive property of vacuum tubes and transistors in which of these applications.
A: Filter Circuit Design
B: Frequency Compensation Circuits
C: Capacitance/Resistance Multiplier Circuits
D: High-Frequency, Wide-Bandwidth Amplifiers
3, What were "Baldies"?
A: Old round-top wooden table radios
B: Glass triodes with a smooth round top
C: Earphones popular in the late 1920s and 1930s
D:Early, unshielded vacuum tubes that glowed brightly
4, What is the main psychological term that marketers rely on when placing a “Red Dot” on your phone screen?
A: Visual Salience
B: Zeigarnik Effect
C: "Fear of Missing Out" (FOMO)
D: Intermittent Variable Reinforcement
THE ANSWERS TO THE ABOVE QUESTIONS ARE
1B, 2D, 3C AND 4B
