2007 Element 3 General Class Question Pool
(Revised February 23, 2007)
This is the official release of the 2007 Element 3 Questions pool from the Question Pool Committee of the NCVEC
This file is normally available to the public in Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format). VECs and other interested parties requiring an editable version of the pool should contact the QPC directly, or check the NCVEC web site at NCVEC.ORG.
There are 484 questions in the pool.
Section G7A requires the use of one illustration, a schematic drawing. This drawing is available in JPEG and BMP (Windows Bitmap) versions upon request. The drawing file is published separately. The applicable graphic is identified as G7-1.
As always, VECs are free to correct minor typographical and punctuation errors, including obvious minor omissions. Such corrections must not cause a change in the meaning of a question or any of the proposed answers to that question. Also, since rule citation references are not part of the question itself, but are included only to assist instructors and students when looking up the applicable section of the rules, errors in the reference identifiers are not considered adequate reason for removal of a question from the pool.
Please note that in this version, question G5B10 and G2C06 have been removed. Other questions in these sections were not and should not be renumbered.
- Jim, KL7CC
Chairman, NCVEC QPC
Additional members of the committee:
Roland Anders, K3RA
Perry Green, WY1O
Larry Pollock, NB5X
2007 General Class (Element 3) Master syllabus
35 Exam questions
SUBELEMENT G1 - COMMISSION'S RULES [5 Exam Questions - 5 Groups]
G1A - General class control operator frequency privileges; primary and secondary allocations
G1B - Antenna structure limitations; good engineering and good amateur
practice; beacon operation; restricted operation; retransmitting radio signals
G1C - Transmitter power regulations; HF data emission standards
G1D - Volunteer Examiners and Volunteer Examiner Coordinators; temporary identification
G1E - Control categories; repeater regulations; harmful interference; third party rules; ITU regions
SUBELEMENT G2 - OPERATING PROCEDURES [6 Exam Questions - 6 Groups]
G2A Phone operating procedures; USB/LSB utilization conventions; procedural signals; breaking into a QSO in progress; VOX operation
G2B - Operating courtesy; band plans
G2C - Emergencies, including drills and emergency communications
G2D - Amateur auxiliary; minimizing Interference; HF operations
G2E - Digital operating: procedures, procedural signals and common abbreviations
G2F - CW operating procedures and procedural signals, Q signals and common abbreviations; full break in
SUBELEMENT G3 - RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION [3 Exam Questions - 3 Groups]
G3A - Sunspots and solar radiation; ionospheric disturbances; propagation forecasting and indices
G3B - Maximum Usable Frequency; Lowest Usable Frequency; propagation "hops"
G3C - Ionospheric layers; critical angle and frequency; HF scatter; Near Vertical Incidence Sky waves
G4 - AMATEUR RADIO PRACTICES [5 Questions - 5 groups]
G4A - Two-tone Test; amplifier tuning and neutralization; DSP
G4B - Test and monitoring equipment
G4C - Interference with consumer electronics; grounding
G4D - Speech processors; S meters; common connectors
G4E - HF mobile radio installations; emergency and battery powered operation
SUBELEMENT G5 ELECTRICAL PRINCIPLES [3 exam questions 3 groups]
G5A - Resistance; reactance; inductance; capacitance; impedance; impedance matching
G5B - The Decibel; current and voltage dividers; electrical power calculations; sine wave root-mean-square (RMS) values; PEP calculations
G5C Resistors, capacitors, and inductors in series and parallel; transformers
SUBELEMENT G6 CIRCUIT COMPONENTS [3 exam question 3 groups]
G6A - Resistors; capacitors; inductors
G6B - Rectifiers; solid state diodes and transistors; solar cells; vacuum tubes; batteries
G6C - Analog and digital integrated circuits (ICs); microprocessors; memory; I/O devices; microwave ICs (MMICs ); display devices
SUBELEMENT G7 PRACTICAL CIRCUITS [2 exam question 2 groups]
G7A - Power supplies; transmitters and receivers; filters; schematic symbols
G7B - Digital circuits (gates, flip-flops, shift registers); amplifiers and oscillators
SUBELEMENT G8 SIGNALS AND EMISSIONS [2 exam questions 2 groups]
G8A - Carriers and modulation: AM; FM; single and double sideband ; modulation envelope; deviation; overmodulation
G8B - Frequency mixing; multiplication; HF data communications; bandwidths of various modes
SUBELEMENT G9 ANTENNAS [4 exam questions 4 groups]
G9A - Antenna feedlines: characteristic impedance, and attenuation; SWR calculation, measurement and effects; matching networks
G9B - Basic antennas
G9C - Directional antennas
G9D - Specialized antennas
SUBELEMENT G0 ELECTRICAL AND RF SAFETY [2 Exam Questions 2 groups]
G0A - RF safety principles, rules and guidelines; routine station evaluation
G0B - Safety in the ham shack: electrical shock and treatment, grounding, fusing, interlocks, wiring, antenna and tower safety