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Q1. Radar surface-angular measurements are referenced to true north and measured in what plane?

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A1. Horizontal plane.

2
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The distance from a radar set to a target measured along the line of sight is identified by what term?

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Range

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Q3. What is the speed of electromagnetic energy traveling through air?

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A3. Approximately the speed of light (162,000 nautical miles per second).

4
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How much time is required for electromagnetic energy to travel 1 nautical mile and return to the source?

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A4. 12.36 microseconds.

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Q5. In addition to recovery time, what determines the minimum range of a radar set?

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A5. Pulse width.

6
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Atmospheric interference with the travel of electromagnetic energy increases with what rf energy characteristic?

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Frequency

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Q7. How is prt related to prf?

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1/prt=prf

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Q8. What type of radar transmitter power is measured over a period of time?

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A8. Average power.

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Q9. What term is used to describe the product of pulse width and pulse-repetition frequency?

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A9. Duty cycle.

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Q10. What type of target bearing is referenced to your ship?

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A10. Relative bearing.

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Q11. What type of radar detects range, bearing, and height?

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A11. Three-dimensional.

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Q12. What characteristic(s) of radiated energy is (are) altered to achieve electronic scanning?

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A12. Frequency or phase.

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What term is used to describe the ability of a radar system to distinguish between targets that are close together?

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A13. Target resolution.

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Q14. The degree of bearing resolution for a given radar system depends on what two factors?

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A14. Beam width and range.

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What happens to the speed of electromagnetic energy traveling through air as the altitude increases?

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A15. Speed increases.

16
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What term is used to describe a situation in which atmospheric temperature first increases with altitude and then begins to decrease?

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Temperature inversion

17
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What radar subsystem supplies timing signals to coordinate the operation of the complete system?

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A17. Synchronizer.

18
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When a transmitter uses a high-power oscillator to produce the output pulse, what switches the oscillator on and off?

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A18. High-voltage pulse from the modulator.

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Q19. What radar component permits the use of a single antenna for both transmitting and receiving?

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Duplexer

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Q20. What is the simplest type of scanning?

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A20. Single lobe.

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How does the operator of a single-lobe scanning system determine when the target moves off the lobe axis?

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A21. The reflected signals decrease in strength.

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Q22. What are the two basic methods of scanning?

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A22. Mechanical and electronic.

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Q23. Rotation of an rf-feed source to produce a conical scan pattern is identified by what term?

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A23. Nutation.

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Q24. The Doppler effect causes a change in what aspect of rf energy that strikes a moving object?

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A24. Frequency.

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Q25. The Doppler variation is directly proportional to what radar contact characteristic?

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Velocity

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Q26. The Doppler method of object detection is best for what type objects?

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A26. Fast-moving targets.

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Q27. The beat frequency in a swept-frequency transmitter provides what contact information?

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Range

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What factor determines the difference between the transmitted frequency and the received frequency in an fm transmitter?

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A28. Travel time.

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Q29. What type of objects are most easily detected by an fm system?

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A29. Stationary.

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Q30. What transmission method does NOT depend on relative frequency or target motion?

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A30. Pulse modulation.

31
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What transmission method uses a stable cw reference oscillator, which is locked in phase with the transmitter frequency?

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A31. Pulse-Doppler.

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Q32. What type of radar provides continuous range, bearing, and elevation data on an object?

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A32. Track radar.

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Q33. Radar altimeters use what type of transmission signal?

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A33. Frequency modulated (fm).

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Q34. A surface-search radar normally scans how many degrees of azimuth?

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A34. 360 degrees.

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Q35. What limits the maximum range of a surface-search radar?

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A35. Radar horizon.

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Q36. What is the shape of the beam of a surface-search radar?

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A36. Wide vertically, narrow horizontally.

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Q37. Air-search radar is divided into what two basic categories?

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A37. 2D and 3D.

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Q38. What position data are supplied by 2D search radar?

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A38. Range and bearing.

39
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Why do 2D air-search radars use relatively low carrier frequencies and low pulse-repetition rates?

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A39. Increased maximum range.

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Q40. Why is the range capability of 3D radar usually less than the range of 2D radar?

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A40. Higher operating frequency.

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Q41. Fire-control tracking radar most often radiates what type of beam?

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A41. A narrow circular beam.

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Q42. Tracking radar searches a small volume of space during which phase of operation?

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Acquisition

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Q43. What width is the pulse radiated by fire-control tracking radar?

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A43. Very narrow.

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Q44. Which beam of missile-guidance radar is very wide?

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A44. Capture beam.

45
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Q1. What is the purpose of the synchronizer in a radar system?

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A1. Controls system operation and timing.

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Q2. What is the purpose of the majority of circuits in a radar system?

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A2. Timing and control.

47
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Q3. A self-synchronized radar system obtains timing trigger pulses from what source?

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Transmitter

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Q4. What type of multivibrator can be used as a radar master oscillator?

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A4. Free-running.

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Q5. In an externally synchronized radar, what determines the prr of the transmitter?

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A5. The master oscillator.

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Q6. In figure 2-1, what causes the initial and final pulses on the receiver output signal?

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A6. Leakage from the duplexer.

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Q7. What basic circuits meet the requirements of an externally synchronized master oscillator?

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A7. Sine-wave oscillator, single-swing blocking oscillator, and master-trigger (astable) multivibrator.

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Q8. Name a disadvantage of sine-wave oscillator synchronizers.

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A8. It requires additional shaping circuits.

53
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Q9. Which of the basic timing circuits produces sharp trigger pulses directly?

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A9. Blocking oscillators.

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Q10. What are the two basic types of transmitters?

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A10. Keyed oscillator and power-amplifier chain.

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Q11. What controls transmitter pulse width?

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A11. The modulator.

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Q12. In addition to a flat top, what characteristics must a modulator pulse have?

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A12. Steep leading and trailing edges.

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Q13. What type of modulator is most commonly used in modern radar systems?

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A13. Line-pulsed.

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Q14. What three types of storage elements most often are used in modulators?

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A14. Capacitor, artificial transmission line, or pulse-forming network.

59
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What characteristic is determined by the time required for a voltage wave to travel from the input end of an artificial transmission line to the output end and back again?

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A15. Pulse width.

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Q16. What type of tube best meets the requirements of a modulator switching element?

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Thyratron

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Q17. What modulator element controls the rate at which the storage element charges?

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A17. The charging impedance.

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Q18. What is the frequency range of magnetron oscillators?

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A18. 600-30,000 megahertz.

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Q19. What two forms of instability are common in magnetrons?

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A19. Mode skipping and mode shifting.

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Q20. What is the effect on magnetron operation if the magnetic field strength is too high?

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A20. The magnetron will not oscillate.

65
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Q21. What is the typical frequency range about the center frequency of a tunable magnetron?

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A21. 5 percent.

66
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What is the primary advantage of power-amplifier transmitters over keyed-oscillator transmitters?

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A22. Frequency stability.

67
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In the power amplifier shown in figure 2-10, what two signals are mixed to produce the output signal?

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A23. Local oscillator and coherent oscillator.

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Q24. What type of klystron is used as the final stage of a power-amplifier transmitter?

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A24. Multicavity klystron.

69
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What transmitter component allows the radiation of a large number of discrete frequencies over a wide band?

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A25. Frequency synthesizer.

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Q26. What is the result of pulsing a pulsed rf amplifier when no rf is present?

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A26. Oscillations at an undesired frequency.

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Q27. What type of switches are used as duplexers?

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A27. Electronic.

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Q28. What tube in a duplexer has the primary function of disconnecting the receiver?

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A28. Tr tube.

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Q29. How may the tr tube ionization speed be increased?

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A29. Apply keep-alive voltage.

74
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The actions of the tr and atr circuits depend on the impedance characteristics of what length of transmission line?

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A30. Quarter-wavelength section.

75
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During which of the transmit or receive cycles are both the tr and atr tubes of a parallelconnected duplexer ionized (arcing)?

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A31. Transmit.

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Q32. In a series-connected duplexer, what tube (tr or atr), if any, fires during the receive cycle?

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A32. Neither fires.

77
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To propagate energy down an arm of a hybrid ring duplexer, the two fields at the junction of the arm and the ring must have what phase relationship?

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A33. 180 degrees out of phase.

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Q34. What is the greatest limiting factor in a receiver’s detectable range?

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A34. Noise.

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Q35. What type of receiver is most often used in radar systems?

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A35. Superheterodyne.

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Q36. What IF frequencies are normally used in radar receivers?

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A36. Thirty or sixty megahertz.

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Which component of the receiver produces the signal that is mixed with the received signal to produce the IF signal?

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A37. Local oscillator.

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Q38. What receiver circuit actually produces the IF frequency?

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A38. Mixer.

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Q39. The IF amplifiers are connected in what amplifier configuration?

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A39. Cascade.

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Q40. Which receiver component converts the IF pulses to video pulses?

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A40. Detector.

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Which of the two types of automatic gain control, agc or iagc, is most effective in radar use for the Navy?

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A41. IAGC.

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Q42. Immediately after the transmitter fires, stc reduces the receiver gain to what level?

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A42. Zero.

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Q43. How does ftc affect receiver gain, if at all?

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A43. FTC has no effect on receiver gain.

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Q44. What type of target has a fixed phase relationship from one receiving period to the next?

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Stationary

89
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What signal is used to synchronize the coherent oscillator to a fixed phase relationship with the transmitted pulse?

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A45. Coho lock pulse.

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Q46. What is the phase relationship between the delayed and undelayed video?

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A46. Opposite.

91
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When a large signal and a small signal are applied to a lin-log amplifier at the same time, what is the effect on the small signal?

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A47. Amplification is reduced.

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Q48. What happens to the overall gain of a lin-log amplifier as each stage saturates?

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A48. Decreases.

93
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Q49. A monopulse receiver has how many separate channels?

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A49. Three.

94
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If a target is on the bearing axis of the radiated beam, what is the input to the bearing IF channel?

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A50. Zero.

95
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What characteristic of the bearing and elevation output signals determines the direction of antenna movement?

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A51. Phase.

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Q1. What are the three fundamental quantities involved in radar displays?

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A1. Range, bearing, and elevation.

97
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Q2. What are the required radar inputs for proper indicator operation?

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A2. Triggers, video, and antenna information.

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Q3. What coordinates are displayed on an rhi scope?

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A3. Range and elevation.

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Q4. What coordinates are presented on a ppi scope?

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A4. Range and bearing.

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Q5. What type of deflection is preferred for a crt electron beam?

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A5. Electromagnetic.

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Q6. Which of the two types of deflection coils (fixed or rotating) is used most often?

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Fixed

102
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What type of ranging circuit is most often used with a radar that requires extremely accurate range data?

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A7. Range gate or range step.

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Q8. The range sweep in a range-gate generator is started at the same time as what other pulse?

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A8. Transmitter.

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Q9. Range-marker generators produce pulses based on what radar constant?

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A9. The radar mile (12.36 microseconds).

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Q10. What radar scope uses a range step for range measurement?

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A10. The A scope.

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Q11. Which of the two general classes of antennas is most often used with radar?

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A11. Directional.

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Q12. The power gain of an antenna is directly related to what other antenna property?

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A12. Directivity.

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Q13. A parabolic reflector changes a spherical wavefront to what type of wavefront?

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A13. Plane.

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Q14. How many major lobes are produced by a paraboloid reflector?

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One

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Q15. What type of radiator normally drives a corner reflector?

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A15. Half-wave.

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Q16. The broadside array consists of a flat reflector and what other elements?

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A16. Two or more half-wave dipoles.

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Q17. Horn radiators serve what purpose other than being directional radiators?

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A17. Waveguide impedance matching devices.

113
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Q1. The spectrum of a radar transmitter describes what characteristic of the output pulse?

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A1. Frequency distribution.

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Q2. Where should the transmitter spectrum be located with respect to the receiver response curve?

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A2. In the center.

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Q3. The ideal radar spectrum has what relationship to the carrier frequency?

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A3. Symmetrical above and below the carrier frequency.

116
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The display screen of a spectrum analyzer presents a graphic plot of what two signal characteristics?

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A4. Power and frequency.

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Q5. The peak power of a radar depends on the interrelationship of what other factors?

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A5. Average power, pulse width, and prt.

118
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Q6. Transmitter power readings are most often referenced to what power level?

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A6. 1 milliwatt.

119
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Q7. A loss of receiver sensitivity has the same effect on range performance as what other loss?

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A7. Transmitter power loss.

120
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Q8. You determine receiver sensitivity by measuring the power level of what signal?

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A8. Minimum discernible signal (mds).

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Q9. When measuring receiver sensitivity, what quantities must you add to the dBm reading obtained on the signal generator or test set?

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A9. Attenuations of the directional coupler and the connecting cable.

122
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Q10. Receiver bandwidth is defined as those frequencies spread between what two points of the receiver response curve?

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A10. Half-power points.

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Q11. The end of the usefulness of a tr tube is indicated by an increase in what quantity?

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A11. Recovery time.

124
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Q12. Most shipboard distribution systems use ac power that has what number of phases?

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Three

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Q13. How is emergency power applied when normal power is lost?

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Automatically

126
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What device is used to switch power from the normal source to an alternate source for nonvital users?

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A14. Manual bus transfer (MBT) unit.

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Q15. What procedure should you use when a power input to your equipment is missing?

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A15. Work backwards from the load to the source.

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Q16. What is the normal source of dry air for a radar system?

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A16. Ship’s central dry-air system.

129
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What is the major difference between the electronics dry-air branch and the vital service lp air main?

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A17. Degree of dehydration.

130
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Q18. What is the air control panel designed to control?

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Pressure

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Q19. What type of cooling is used to control ambient room temperature?

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A19. Air conditioning.

132
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Q20. A typical liquid-cooling system is composed of what loops?

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A20. Primary and secondary.

133
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Q21. What loop of a cooling system is often supplied by sea water?

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A21. The primary loop.