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OPERATING PROCEDURES · - Volunteer Monitor Program; HF operations

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What procedure may be used by Volunteer Monitors to localize a station whose continuous carrier is holding a repeater on in their area?

  1. ACompare vertical and horizontal signal strengths on the input frequency
  2. BCompare beam headings on the repeater input from their home locations with that of other Volunteer Monitors
  3. CCompare signal strengths between the input and output of the repeater
  4. DAll these choices are correct
Why A stuck carrier is transmitting on the repeater's input frequency, so monitors listen there, not on the output. Each Volunteer Monitor points a directional antenna at the signal from their own location and notes the bearing; plotting two or more bearings on a map lets the lines cross at the transmitter's location. That is classic triangulation, or radio direction finding, and it is the standard method for tracking down an interfering or stuck station.
Watch out Comparing input and output signal strengths tells you nothing about direction, since the repeater output comes from the repeater site, not the offending station, and polarization comparisons do not give a bearing either.
Find the offender by direction, not by strength: multiple beam headings on the INPUT frequency cross at the culprit.
HamSandwich explanation, first draft. The question and answers are the NCVEC text.
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  1. G2D01 What is the Volunteer Monitor Program?
  2. G2D02 Which of the following are objectives of the Volunteer Monitor Program?
  3. G2D03 What procedure may be used by Volunteer Monitors to localize a station whose continuous carrier is holding a …
  4. G2D04 Which of the following describes an azimuthal projection map?
  5. G2D05 Which of the following indicates that you are looking for an HF contact with any station?
  6. G2D06 How is a directional antenna pointed when making a "long-path" contact with another station?
  7. G2D07 Which of the following are examples of the NATO Phonetic Alphabet?
  8. G2D08 Why do many amateurs keep a station log?
  9. G2D09 Which of the following is required when participating in a contest on HF frequencies?
  10. G2D10 What is QRP operation?
  11. G2D11 Why are signal reports typically exchanged at the beginning of an HF contact?
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