Foundation Licence

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Courses in the Foundation licence are undertaken over the first two Saturdays of a month, with the exam being taken on the third Saturday.
Courses normally run from March until September - Please ring or email us for more details.

Go on! Achieve an M6 licence and talk to the world!

The Exam

The Foundation exam consist of twenty five (multiple choice) questions.
Candidates have 45 minutes in which to answer them.
18 of the 25 must be answered correctly for a pass to be achieved.

We can not guarantee the difficulty of questions asked but if you have listened to and understood what your instructor(s) have said then you will do fine.

How ready are you? Try your hand at the fifteen questions below. (requires JavaScript)
On the real exam, some questions will require you to read an extract of the Licencing Conditons and are therefore not found here.

1) Which one of the following is not an amateur radio licence?

2) Which of the following antenna is directional and has a gain?

a. Dipole

b. Ground Plane

c. 5/8 Wave

d. Yagi

3) Before transmitting it is good operating practice to:-

a. Key the Mic to ensure its operability

b. Listen and ask if the frequency is in use

c. Practice with some test transmissions

d. Go straight into a CQ call

4) Which of the following are not required to be entered into a log book?

a. RST report

b. CQ calls which are not answered

c. The Time of day

d. Mode of transmission when using CW

5) Study the block diagram below and state which stage is marked by the 'X' in this receiver

6) Which one of the following is Ohms Law?

7) Which one of the following is entitled to close an Amateur Radio Station down?

8) Which callsign is that of a Foundation Licence Holder?

9) Only one from the list below is permissable. Which one is it?

10) After establishing contact on the VHF calling frequency, you should

11) In the circuit diagram below, what will be the correct position of the switches to make the meter register

12) Which type of transmission is more likely to cause interference to TV, radio and telephones?

13) On entering the shack of a friend, you find him lying unconscious on the floor. Which is the first action you should take?

14) VHF/UHF signals possess which of the following characteristics

15) Study the block diagram below and state which stage is marked 'X' in this transmitter

Foundation Licence

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Good luck!