Test Your Radio Frequency Knowledge! Trivia Questions Quiz

If, however, the emergency alarm is on a MO IO channel, or another statewide talk group,what must be done?

• Every dispatch console in Troop A must acknowledge the alarm

• Every dispatch console in Troop A along with all MCD officers must acknowledge the alarm

• Every dispatch console in the state has to acknowledge the alarm.

The emergency alarm is activated on a mobile or portable radio when an officer presses the _______button on the _________of the mobile or top of the HT.

• Orange and front

• Red and front

• Orange and back

On the mobile, this is easily confused with the power button, which is simply regular. ________ button with a _______on it.

• Black and box

• Black and circle

• Black and x

You clear the alarm at the console, the officer is not required to do anything.

• True

• False

Problems with Charger radios.  The whips are 48 inches.  According to the cutting chart, they should be what length for proper range?

• 47

• 44.5

• 48.5

• 46.75

Narrowbanding & Charger / Taurus radio range problems If an officer turns on the radio and Ch 2 says ________ it needs to be programmed before_________?

• Mutual aid, December 31

• Point to point, January 1

• Mutual aid, January 1

Since we have a new strobe on the tower that is blinking day and night, we need to make ____tower log entries in order to comply with ________and________.

• 2,FAA,SOP

• 2,FAA, G.O.

• 2,FCC, G.O.

Transmitter counters are now at each console position.  They are labled_______through_____. Transmitter counts are due_____________.

• P1 - P5,end of each month

• P1 - P5,first of each month

• P1 - P4, end of each month

• P1 - P4, first of each month

A new shp form____ is now available as a PDF fill in form. 

You receive an exterior activity alarm at the Hume tower.  After creating a cfs (rtower) and sending an officer to check the status (as well as now checking the cameras in radio) whom should you email to advise the everything is okay?

• James, the Chief, all radio operators

• James, the Chief, all radio operators, Corey Chaney

• James, the Chief, all radio operators, Craig Haugen

• James, the Chief, all radio operators, Craig Haugen,Jerry Goans

During the winter months there is the threat of ice to our PECO loband hi-power transmittes.  If icing does occur, you will see greater than normal PA grid current and higher reflected power. As a rule if weather conditions are__________and the outside temperature is________or below the front panel should be checked for the above RF.

• Damp (drizzle, rain) and 32 degrees or below

• Damp (drizzle, rain) and 32 degrees or above

• Damp (drizzle, rain) and 36 degrees or below

• Damp (drizzle, rain) and 36 degrees or above

Turning down the power (RF drive control), will alleviate conditions caused by antenna ice accumulation. You may have to take power down to _______ ________ or lower, to stay within normal operating parameters of the equipment.

• 2000, watts

• 1500, watts

• 1000, amps

• 1000, watts

Reference above, it would be best to turn the power down when the________shift leaves at ______or so and have_____ shift check it before they relieve you.

• Day,1500,2300

• Evening,2300,day

• Evening,1500,day

Operators should use the Dayton tower at ALL times to talk to Bates County cars.

• True

• False

At all times on rural you are transmitting on the Peco and Marshall unless you are talking on Warsaw or Dayton

• True

• False

Which sites are receive only?

• Trimble, Odessa, Hughesville

• Trimble, Odessa East Jackson , Hughesville

• Trimble, Odessa East Jackson, Warsaw

Anytime ice builds up on antennas, it will greatly reduce your ability to talk as far as normal and you will not hear as well as normal, either.  Since it is not possible for us to remove ice from the base station and repeater antennas, I ask that you remove ice from the mobile__________________and____________ __________on the driver's side rear quarter panel of the patrol car.

• High-band whip antenna, spring mounted

• High-band trunk antenna, spring mounted

• Low-band whip antenna, spring mounted

• Low-band whip antenna, trunk mounted

On the Metro Channel, the only tower you can transmit on besides the backup Metro is Metro Remote.

• True

• False

If you shut down the Motorola Elite Dispatch screen, how many tries will lock you out?

• What is a Motorola Elite Dispatch screen?

• You can't get locked out

• 1 try

• 3 tries

When you go to switch profiles (from one ear to another) and receive the error with the "yellow caution icons,"  what should you do?

• What are yellow caution icons?

• Ignore them. They will go away.

• Just key up (click on) a transmitter to clear the error and continue to select the repeaters you use until the ones you want are clear.

Regarding the above question, this error occurs on____________?

• Trunking, lowband

• Trunkking only

• Trunking, highband

• Lowband

To log back into elite dispatch the correct username and password are?

• Mshptroopa,Motorola1

• Mshpradioa,Motorola1

• Mshpdispatchers,Motorola1

Regarding the above question, once you have logged in to Windows, what is the basic userid and  password for the dispatch software?

• 1234,motorola

• Z1s01p0x,motorola

• Radio,motorola

Lastly, for each console there is a uniqure user id.  Example: z1s01p0X - X is the operative for each console.  Therefore, 1=_________, 2=________,3=__________ and 4=__________

• Metro,back metro,back rural,rural

• Rural,metro,back rural, back metro

• Back metro,metro,back rural rural

Shp form 306 is used_____________

• Whenever an officer fills out a 325

• Whenever you replace a headset

• Whever you replace equipment in a patrol vehicle

For shp-306, you must fill out two forms.

• True

• False

Attach the 306 to the _______ you are sending back.  The form should show the_______ _______inventory # and the numbers of the new equipment that was_____________in its place.

• Form,current equipment,removed

• Form, defective part,installed

• Equipment,defective equipment,installed