Christmas Quiz Answers
The answers to our Christmas Quiz on page 45
See how you got on!
Part One: Radio People
A1. He is an actor: VU2AMY is world famous ‘Bollywood’ film star Amitabh Bachchan, pictured in Fig. 5. (1 point)
A2. Steve Franke K9AN. (1 point)
A3. Joe Walsh, the guitarist and singer formerly in The Eagles rock group ( Fig. 6). (1 point)
A4. Senator Barry Goldwater K7UGA, Fig. 7
(he lost to President Lyndon B Johnson in 1964). (1 point)
A5. With Guglielmo Marconi, in 1909. They were awarded the prize jointly “for their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy” (yet who has ever heard of poor old Braun?) (1 point) A6. Sir Hiram Maxim’s son was Hiram Percy Maxim who co-founded the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) in 1914. (Sir Hiram was American-born but emigrated to Great Britain and became a naturalised British citizen.) (1 point) A7. Alexander Graham Bell, Fig. 8, inventor of the telephone. (1 point)
A8. Frequency hopping or spread spectrum radio. During WWII Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil together developed a frequency-hopping spread spectrum technique designed to prevent jamming of radio-controlled torpedoes. The frequencyhopping ‘Secret Communication System’ was patented by them in 1941. (1 point)
A9. Feargal Sharkey, OBE, lead singer of The Undertones and solo performer of 1985 hit A
Good Heart. (1 point)
A10. SWL Geoff Watts. (1 point)
Part Two: General
A11. MGY. (1 point)
A12. (a) Collins: the 30L-1 was a 1kW input linear amplifier and the KWM-2 a transceiver. (b) KW Electronics: the Vanguard was an AM
/ CW transmitter and the Viceroy an SSB / CW transmitter. (c) Drake (R L Drake Company): The T-4XC and R-4C, were a top of the range transmitter and receiver respectively and could be operated together as if a transceiver. (d) Heathkit: the DX-100 was a 100+ watt AM / CW transmitter and the HW-101 an SSB / CW transceiver. (e) Codar: the AT5 was a 10W 160 / 80m AM / CW transmitter and the T28 a matching receiver (they were often used for 160m mobile operating in the UK in the 1960s and early ‘70s). (5 points)
A13. (a) Australia, (b) Bosnia-Herzegovina, (c) Switzerland, (d) Belgium, (e) Brazil. (5 points) A14. They’re all used by the NCDXF / IARU International Beacon Project. (1 point) A15. Automatic Packet Reporting System (and not Automatic Position Reporting System).
(1 point)
A16. Astonishingly, the answer is (e) 680 million (if you don’t yet use it, take a look at https://clublog.org) (1 point)
A17. They are all in their country’s second call district (VK2, W2, OH2, VE2, SM2, ZL2, UA2). (1 point)
A18. (a) August. (b) April. (c) October. (d) July. (e) October. (5 points)
A19. (a) 60 – 90km, (b) 90 – 150km, (c) 150 – 500km (any figure within these limits count for points). (3 points)
A20. (a) MM7XYZ, (b) SM0XYZ, (c) W2XYZ (despite still having ‘call districts’, US amateurs do not change their callsign when moving from one district to another. W2XYZ may sign W2XYZ/6 from California, but this is not mandatory.) (3 points)
Maximum possible: 36 points.