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T7A04

PRACTICAL CIRCUITS · Station equipment: receivers, transceivers, transmitter amplifiers, RF preamplifiers, transverters; Basic radio circuit concepts and terminology: sensitivity, selectivity, mixers, oscillators, Push-To-Talk (PTT), VFO, modulation

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Which term describes the ability of a receiver to discriminate between multiple signals?

  1. ADiscrimination ratio
  2. BSensitivity
  3. CSelectivity
  4. DHarmonic distortion
Why Selectivity is a receiver's ability to separate a desired signal from others nearby in frequency, and it is set mainly by the bandwidth and shape of the receiver's filters (IF filters, crystal or DSP filters). A narrow CW filter of a few hundred hertz gives high selectivity because it rejects signals just a kilohertz away, while a wide FM filter passes much more of the band. Poor selectivity shows up as adjacent signals bleeding into the one you are trying to copy.
Watch out Sensitivity is the other common receiver spec, but it describes how weak a signal the receiver can detect, not how well it separates signals that are close together in frequency.
Selectivity = Separating signals; Sensitivity = Seeing weak Signals.
HamSandwich explanation, first draft. The question and answers are the NCVEC text.
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The rest of T7A

  1. T7A01 Which term describes the ability of a receiver to detect the presence of a signal?
  2. T7A02 What is a transceiver?
  3. T7A03 Which of the following is used to convert a signal from one frequency to another?
  4. T7A04 Which term describes the ability of a receiver to discriminate between multiple signals?
  5. T7A05 What is the name of a circuit that generates a signal at a specific frequency?
  6. T7A06 What device converts the RF input and output of a transceiver to another band?
  7. T7A07 What is the function of a transceiver's PTT input?
  8. T7A08 Which of the following describes combining speech with an RF carrier signal?
  9. T7A09 What is the function of the switch which selects either SSB or CW-FM on some VHF power amplifiers?
  10. T7A10 What can be added to the output of a transceiver to increase the transmitted output power?
  11. T7A11 What is the function of the Variable Frequency Oscillator (VFO) circuit in a transceiver?
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