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1. Whats a PCB? Printed Circuit Board.

2. Name some band definitions. L-Band - 1-2 GHz, S-Band - 2-4 GHz, C-Band - 4-8 GHz,
X-Band - 8-12 GHz, Ku-Band - 12-18 GHz.
3. Whats the definition of gain? The signal going into the device is smaller than the signal
going out.
4. Whats a definition of an amplifier? Its a device that exhibits gain.
5. Insertion loss? The signal going in is greater than the signal thats coming out.
6. Thermal impedance? A measure of how hot the device gets with varying electrical input.
7. Whats the relation between dB and change of signal? +3 dB is 2 times bigger, +10 dB
is 10 times bigger.
8. Whats an octave? The bandwidth characterized by higher band being twice as much as
lower band (100-200 MHz).
9. Whats a decade? A bandwidth, where the higher band is 10x the lower band (100 MHz - 1
GHz).
10. Skin effect? The signal is reported on the surface of the object, but not inside, e.g. a solid
brick wall.
11. VSWR? Voltage Standing Wave Ratio. The numeric representation of the device leak, written
like X:1 where X is greater when the leak is greater and 1:1 is the absolute no-leakage VSWR.
12. Describe an impedance matching circuit. A circuit capable of changing the impedance
with different values for incoming and outgoing impedance.
13. Describe circular polarization. The signal travels both vertically and horizontally.
14. Whats the job of the amplifier? To increase the incoming signal.
15. What is noise figure? The level of noise that a low-noise amplifier (LNA) is capable of
discriminating.
16. Whats a transfer curve? It is a graph of the output power versus the input power of an
amplifier.
17. Whats the 911 point? The point where the input power results in flames on the other end.
18. Whats saturation point? The point where the amplifier loses its linearity of the transfer
curve.
19. What does balanced amplifier consist of? Two amplifiers stuck together.
20. What is the filters function? To filter out all the unwanted radio signals.
21. What filter types are there? Low-pass (all frequencies below are allowed to pass in),
high-pass, bandpass (all frequencies of a given bandwidth are allowed) and band-reject.
22. What are saw filters used for? Very low frequency filtering.
23. What are mixers used for? To change the frequency of the signal.
24. Whats a superheterodyne receiver? Its a receiver that uses two mixers in a row.
25. Describe VCO. Voltage-controlled oscillators change the frequency of the produced sine wave
depending on the voltage they receive.
26. Who is responsible for PLLs? Phase-locked loops are done by synthesizer, that samples
the sine wave and if its not good enough, changes it.

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Cam
Posted 6/12/2004 at 12:31 pm | Permalink

no offense intended, but whoever wrote the answers to these questions is

demonstrating an extremely limited understanding of the concepts involved (Q 7, 10),
and in some cases is just plain wrong (Q 13, 15)

varinder
Posted 6/10/2005 at 8:54 am | Permalink

difference b/w mobile & cell phones

madhu m nair
Posted 2/5/2006 at 10:33 pm | Permalink

#Expand GSM & CDMA?

GSM- Global system for Mobile communication
CDMA- Code Division Multiple Access
#Expand BTS?
Base Station Transiever Subsystem

madhu m nair
Posted 2/5/2006 at 10:37 pm | Permalink

#What are PRI & BRI?

Both are ISDN services, band width of PRI (Primary Rate Interface)is 2MB or rather
its an E1 stream can give up to 30 telephne connections
BRI (Basic Rate Interface) is our ordinary ISDN connection that is 128kbps , CAn be
configured as 2 voice or 1 voice+ 1 data or 128kbps data service .
The BRI line is 2B+1D .

Some Newbie
Posted 11/29/2006 at 1:01 pm | Permalink

I have an interview coming up and havent really been

doing any active engineering work for 2 or so years. thank you so much for posting this
QnA. definitely got my mind joggin on the engineering path again.

beef
Posted 8/6/2007 at 2:44 am | Permalink

To the guy Cam, Id hoping you dont act this cocky in your work place. That is totally
unnecessary on your perhaps. Even if you knew your stuffs, you will never make it in
the work place with that attitude. These questions are hard to come by and you should
appreciate them for being listed here.

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beef
Posted 8/6/2007 at 3:17 am | Permalink

since cam was a pussy to tell us the real answers. IMHO these answers are not bad, but
#5: means attenuation
#10: this is actually correct answer but you should say: the current distribution density
is higher on the skin than the core of a conductor
#13: Cam is an idiot, this is 100% correct it just doesnt sound so fluent, who cares,
Cam is still an idiot. You must be one bad stuck up white boy arent you?
#15: NF measures the noise level that an amplifier produces. Every amplifier/mixer
/circuit devices adds noises to a system. LNA is no exception.
#26: PLL just make sure the output of synthesizer have the same phase as the
reference frequency.
other questions you should know:
How does GSM & CDMA works: GSM is TDMA where it assigns user to a specific time
slot on an assigned frequency. CDMA is spread spectrum, instead of assigning user to a
specific channel or time slot of that channel, it multiplies the signal by higher code,
chop it up then spread it to any open slot on the entire spectrum.
also know db dbm

beef
Posted 8/6/2007 at 3:21 am | Permalink

I got killed by Qualcomm/Broadcom on mix-signal and ultrawide band. So, I never

made it far into the process. That was a while ago so I cant remember the exact
questions, if you guys knew them please list them here along with the answers. Id like
to give qual another beasty shot. thanks

zack
Posted 8/6/2007 at 6:56 pm | Permalink

saw filter definition is incorrect

Zakva
Posted 1/28/2009 at 11:56 pm | Permalink

These questions are mostly for engineers. Can anyone list possible questions for a LMR
system intergration and system engineer where ones position requires one to have
knowledge of P25 requirements, narrow band migration, encryption, software defined
subscriber units, interoperability gateways etc.

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