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  • ARRL Releases Technician Element 2 Question Pool Errata #2

    From ARRL de WD1CKS@VERT/WLARB to QST on Tue Feb 13 03:37:50 2018
    02/12/2018

    The NCVEC Question Pool Committee has released the latest errata[1] for the 2018 - 2022 Technician, Element 2, question pool, which goes into effect on July 1, 2018. These changes are reflected in new download files dated February 12, 2018.

    T1B06 (B) - Modified distractors B, C, and D.

    T1B06 (B) - On which HF bands does a Technician class operator have phone privileges?

    B. 10 meter band only

    C. 80 meter, 40 meter, 15 meter, and 10 meter bands

    D. 30 meter band onlyÿ

    T1B07 - Modified question: changed "frequencies" to "frequency ranges"ÿ

    T1B10 - Modified all distractors:

    A. 10 meter, 12 meter, 17 meter, and 40 meter bands

    B. 10 meter, 15 meter, 40 meter, and 80 meter bands

    C. 30 meter band only

    D. 10 meter band only

    T1B12 - Distractor C: should read "500 'watts'"ÿ

    T1E02 - Distractor A and C: should be "Amateur Extra 'Class'"ÿ

    T1E09 - Distractor D: corrected to "All 'of' these choices are correct"ÿ

    T2A01 - Distractors A and D: "Mhz" corrected to "MHz" in bothÿ

    T2A03 - Distractors A and D: "Mhz" corrected to "MHz" in bothÿ

    T2A11 - Modified question: new wordingÿ

    T2A11 - What term describes an amateur station that is transmitting and receiving on the same frequency?ÿ

    T2B06 - Modified distractor C: changed "Echolink" to "C. EchoLink"ÿ

    T2C07 - Distractor D: corrected to "All of 'these' choices are correct"ÿ

    T3A07 - Distactor D: changed to "Ferromagnetic"

    T3A12 - Modified question: "How might fog and light rain affect radio range on the 10 'meter and' 6 'meter bands'?"

    Distractor D: should read "'Fog' and Rain"ÿ

    T3C06 - Correct answer modified: A. tropospheric ducting

    T3C06 - Modified B. removed hyphen in D layer

    T3C06 - Modified C. removed hyphen in F2 layerÿ

    T3C07 - Modified all distractors

    A. 10 meter band

    B. 6 meter band

    C. 2 meter band

    D. 70 centimeter bandÿ

    T3C10 - Modified distractor A, B, and C.

    A. 6 or 10 meter bands

    B. 23 centimeter band

    C. 70 centimeter or 1.25 meter bandsÿ

    T4A01 - Modified question wording: "transceiver," removed "s"

    T4A01 - Distractor D: corrected to "All of these 'choices' are correct"ÿ

    T4A06 - Distractor D: capitalized "DC"ÿ

    T4B - Modified syllabus topics: removed repeater offsets, added "transceiver operation"ÿ

    T4B11 - DELETED question.ÿ Renumbered last 3 questions in section T4B:

    T4B12 to T4B11; T4B13 to T4B12, and T4B14 to T4B13ÿ

    T5C13 - Modified question: "What is a unit of impedance?"ÿ

    T5D06 - Distractor D: changed "8 Ohms" to "8 ohms"ÿ

    T8B04 - Question wording and all distractors modified to:

    T8B04 (D) What mode of transmission is commonly used by amateur radio satellites?

    A. SSB

    B. FM

    C. CW/data

    D. All of these choices are correctÿ

    T8C10 - Global modified term "Echolink" to "EchoLink" in question and all distractorsÿ

    T8D07 - Modified question: removed "or Digital Migration Radio"ÿ

    T0B02 - Distractor D: removed "the" before the word "these"

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