Basic Qualification · B-003 Station assembly, practice and safety · B-003-020-008
Why should your outside antennas be high enough so that no one can touch them while you are transmitting?
- ATouching the antenna might radiate harmonics
- BTouching the antenna might cause television interference
- CTouching the antenna might cause RF burns
- DTouching the antenna might reflect the signal back to the transmitter and cause damage
Correct answer: C — Touching the antenna might cause RF burns. From the official ISED question bank, verified word for word.
Why
When you transmit, your antenna carries strong radio frequency energy that can heat human tissue instantly, causing painful RF burns if touched. 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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