Basic Qualification · B-003 Station assembly, practice and safety · B-003-021-005
How should you position the antenna of a hand-held transceiver while you are transmitting?
- AAway from your head and away from others
- BPointed towards the station you are contacting
- CPointed at the horizon
- DPointed down to bounce the signal off the ground
Correct answer: A — Away from your head and away from others. From the official ISED question bank, verified word for word.
Why
Keeping the antenna away from your head and others limits your exposure to radio frequency energy, which can heat body tissue if the transmitter is too close. 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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