Basic Qualification · B-003 Station assembly, practice and safety · B-003-015-010
A digital protocol implements automatic repeat request (ARQ). What does it permit?
- AError correction
- BUnattended operation
- CError detection
- DAutomatic link establishment
Correct answer: A — Error correction. From the official ISED question bank, verified word for word.
Why
Automatic repeat request, or ARQ, lets a digital system ask for a message to be sent again when it arrives with mistakes, which effectively fixes the error so the data is perfect. 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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