Basic Qualification · B-003 Station assembly, practice and safety · B-003-020-007
Why should you wear a hard hat if you are on the ground helping someone work on an antenna tower?
- ATo protect your head from something dropped from the tower
- BSo you won't be hurt if the tower should accidentally fall
- CTo keep RF energy away from your head during antenna testing
- DSo someone passing by will know that work is being done on the tower and will stay away
Correct answer: A — To protect your head from something dropped from the tower. From the official ISED question bank, verified word for word.
Why
Wearing a hard hat on the ground protects your head from tools, hardware, or ice that might accidentally fall from the tower above. 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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