Basic Qualification · B-003 Station assembly, practice and safety · B-003-014-007
If a single-sideband voice transmitter is 100% modulated, how will using a speech processor affect the transmitter's output?
- ADecrease the average power
- BDecrease the peak envelope power
- CIncrease the average power
- DIncrease the peak envelope power
Correct answer: C — Increase the average power. From the official ISED question bank, verified word for word.
Why
A speech processor boosts the quieter parts of your voice before transmission, which raises the overall signal level without exceeding the transmitter's maximum limit. The full explanation — and one for every question — is in Pro.
Practise this section
Station assembly, practice and safety is section B-003 of the Basic exam: Building a station safely: power supplies, grounding, RF exposure, lightning, feedline routing, and what a transmitter, receiver and transceiver actually do.
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