Which of the following camera tubes

uses lead oxide (PbO) for the

photoconductive target plate?
a. Plumbicon
b. Vidicon

c.
d.

Saticon
image orthicon

Lead oxide PbO - plumbicon

Camera signal output w/o sync is
called
a. non-composite video
b. black burst
c. generator lock video
d. composite video
Camera output w/o sync noncomposite video
A low contrast picture in which white
seems flat and lacking in detail
suggests
a. low beam current
b. high gain in pre-amplifier
c. excessive gamma
d. insufficient scanning width
White seems flat - a low beam
current
Which of the ff camera tubes has
minimum lag? (Board Nov.2006)
a. plumbicon
b. vidicon
c. saticon
d. iconoscope
Cam tube minimum lag plumbicon
The part of the visible spectrum where
camera pick-up tubes have the
greatest output
a. yellow-green
b. red
c. blue
d. infrared
Greatest output - yellow green
Precise scanning size and linearity are
most important in (Board Nov.2006)
a. a single-tube color pickup
b. a plumbicon
c. a black-and-white camera
d. a saticon
Important: precise and linear - a
single-tube color pickup
Beam alignment magnets for the
camera tube are adjusted while
rocking which control?
a. electrical focus
b. optical focus
c. beam current
d. shading
Beam alignment control - electrical
focus
Special effects and production
switching are done by the
a. SEG

b.
c.
d.

CCU
ENG camera
sync generator

Special effects switching - SEG

syempre
The gamma of the picture tube is
a. 2.2
b. 0.4545
c. 1.0
d. 1.4
Memorize: gamma - 2.2

spacing bet even and odd fields exact interlacing

The number of lines scanned per

frame in the raster on the picture tube
screen
a. 525
b. 262
c. 20
d. 10
Lines per frame 525

If the camera cannot be placed far

away enough to include everything in
the scene, change the lens to one with
a. shorter focal length
b. lower f rating
c. higher f rating
d. longer focal length
If camera cannot be placed far away
enough - shorter focal length para
mas lalaki ang room
A typical value of vidicon dark current
is
a. 0.2uA
b. About 200uA
c. 8mA
d. 800mA
Vidicon dark current - 0.2uA
A lens has an 8-cm focal length and 4cm diameter. Its f rating is
a. 2
b. 4
c. 8
d. 32
(f) 2 divide lang!
In the sawtooth waveform for linear
scanning
a. the complete cycle
includes trace and retrace
b. the linear rise is for flyback
c. the sharp reversal in
amplitude produces trace
d. the beam moves faster
during trace than retrace
Sawtooth cycle - the complete cycle
includes trace and retrace
Given a 635-us vertical retrace time,
the number of complete horizontal
lines scanned during vertical flyback is
a. 10
b. 20
c. 30
d. 63
Memorize: 635-us vertical retrace
time 10
One-half line spacing between the
start positions for scanning even and
odd fields produces
a. exact interlacing
b. linear scanning
c. line pairing
d. fishtailing

In the frame for which interlaced

scanning is used, alternate lines are
skipped during vertical scanning
because
a. the vertical scanning
frequency is doubled from
30 to 60 Hz
b. the trace is slower than the
retrace
c. the horizontal scanning is
slower than vertical scanning
d. the frame has a 4:3 aspect
ratio
Reason for odd even interlacing - the
vertical scanning freq is doubled
from 30 to 60 Hz
If the horizontal flyback is 10 percent,
this time equals
a. 6.4 us
b. 83 us
c. 10us
d. 56 us
Memorize 10% horizontal flyback 6.4 us
Which of the ff is not true? (Board
Nov.2006)
a. The keystone effect
produces a square raster
b. People look too tall and too
thin on a square raster on the
'line pairing indicates poor
interlacing
c. A person can appear to have
one shoulder wider beck of
nonlinear
d. Not true effect produces a
square raster
The keystone effect produces a
square raster - kais triangle ang
product ng keystone
The width of a vertical sync pulse with
its serrations includes the time of
a. Six half-lines or three
lines
b. Five lines

c.
d.

Three half-lines
Five half-lines

Width of a vertical sync pulse time six half-lines or three lines

Sawtooth generator circuits produce

the scanning raster but the sync
pulses are needed for
a. Timing
b. Linearity
c. Keystoning
d. Line pairing
Sync pulses timing

Between 3.58 MHZ color subcarrier

and __ 4.5-MHz inter carrier sound
The hue
a.
b.
c.
d.

of color sync phase is

Yellow-green
red
cyan
blue

Hue of color sync phase - yellowgreen

Which signal has color information for
1.3-MHz bandwidth? (Board Nov.2006)
a. I
b. Y
c. R-Y
d. B-Y

Which of the following frequencies is

wrong?
a. 31,500 Hz for the vertical
scanning frequency
b. 15,750 Hz for horizontal sync
and scanning
c. 60 Hz for vertical sync and
scanning
d. 31,500 Hz for equalizing
pulses & serrations in the vet
sync
Wrong freq for the vertical scanning
freq- 31,500 Hz for the vertical
scanning frequency
Brightness variations of the picture
information are in which signal?
a. Y
b. Q
c. R
d. -Y
Brightness information Y
The hue 180 degrees out of phase
with red is
a. Cyan
b. Yellow
c. Green
d. Blue
Hue 180 deg out of phase with red
cyan
Greater p-p amplitude of the 3.58-MHz
chrominance signal indicates more
___________
a. Saturation
b. White
c. Yellow
d. Hue
Greater p-p amplitude saturation
amplitude of the 3.58-MHz
chrominance signal
The interfering beat frequency of 920
kHz is between the 3.5 MHz color
subcarrier and the ________
a. 4.5-MHz intercarrier
sound
b. Picture carrier

c.
d.

Lower adjacent sound

Upper adjacent picture

Color info for 1.3-MHz bandwidth I

2nd IF for color RX - 3.58 MHz

If the 3.58 MHz C amplifier in the
receiver does not operate, the result
will be
a. no color
b. no red
c. too much blue
d. too much yellow
3.58 MHz C amplifier not operating no color
How many octaves is the frequency
range of 1 to 8 MHz? (Board
Nov.2006)
a. 3
b. 1
c. 2
d. 8
# of octaves in 1 to 8 MHz - 3

Which of the ff is false?

a. a fully saturated color is
mostly white
b. the I video hues are orange is
cyan
c. the transmitter matrix output
includes Y, I, and Q video
d. a three-gun picture tube can
serve as a matrix

Which system can be used for both

recording and playback?
a. VHS
b. CED
c. VHD
d. laser disk

False statement - a fully saturated

color us mostly white

For recording and playback VHS

The color with the most luminance is

a. yellow
b. red
c. green
d. blue

How many TV fields are recorded on

one slant track of tape?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 4
d. 60

Most luminance yellow

What is the hue color 90 degrees
leading sync burst phase
a. cyan
b. Blue

c.
d.

Yellow
Orange

# of TV fields on one slant track of

tape- 1
The video heads rotate at high
velocity to increase the
a. writing speed
b. tape speed
c. reel rotation
d. tape tension

90 deg leading sync burst phase

cyan

High velocity to increase - writing

speed

The average voltage value of the

3.58-MHz modulated chrominance
signal is
a. the brightness of the
color
b. zero for most colors
c. close to black for yellow
d. the saturation of the color

A typical frequency for the FM

luminance signal in VCR recording is
a. 3.5 MHz
b. 0.1 MHz
c. 10 MHz
d. 680 kHz

Average of the 3.58-MHz chrominance

signal - the brightness of the color
The second IF value for color in
receivers, for any station is
a. 3.58 MHz
b. 0.5 MHz
c. 1.3 MHz
d. 4.5 MHz

FM luminance frequency - 3.5 MHz

Which of the following applies to the
color-under technique?
a. chroma frequencies are
reduced
b. chroma amplitudes are
decreased
c. luminance frequencies are
decreased

d.

chroma and luminance

frequencies are reduced

Color-under - chroma frequencies

are reduced
What oscillator frequency is needed to
heterodyne 629 kHz up to 3.58 MHz?
a. 4.21 MHz
b. 3 MHz
c. 6.3 MHz
d. 10 MHz
To heterodyne 629 KHz up to 3.58
MHz - 4.21 MHz
A comb
a.
b.
c.

d.

filter is used to
cancel chroma crosstalk
separate white from black
clip the sync from blanking
separate alternating from
direct current

Comb filter is used to - cancel

chroma crosstalk
Switching for each field is required for
the
a. video heads
b. audio head
c. control-track head
d. erase head
Switching each field - video heads
Servo control of speed and phase is
used for the
a. video head scanner
b. control head
c. erase head
d. audio head
Servo control of speed and phase is
for - video head scanner
The part that rotates to meter out the
tape at constant speed is the
a. capstan
b. control head
c. erase head
d. entrance guide
Part that rotates capstan
To make the tape speed the same in
playback recording the tape speed is
regulated by the
a. control-track pulses
b. audio track
c. video slant tracks
d. erase heads
Tape speed regulators - controltrack pulses
Tilting the video head gaps is
necessary with the
a. zero guard bands
b. color-under
c. FM luminance signal
d. long-play tapes

a.
b.
c.
d.

VLP
CED
VHD
Betamax

Uses laser light VLP

In the CED system, the disk
capacitance varies with the
a. pit depth
b. disk size
c. speed of rotation
d. wavelength of the scanning
light
Disk capacitance varies with - pit
depth
The modulated picture carrier wave
includes the composite video signal as
the
a. symmetric envelope of
amplitude variations
b. average carrier level
c. lower sideband w/o the upper
sideband
d. upper envelope w/o the lower
envelope
Composite video signal - symmetric
envelope of amplitude variations

picture
is
a.
b.
c.
d.

and sound carrier frequencies

4.5 MHz
0.25 MHz
1.25 MHz
6 MHz

Picture minus sound carrier frequency

- 4.5 MHz
The difference between the sound
carrier frequencies in two adjacent
channels is
a. 6 MHz
b. 0.25 MHz
c. 1.25 MHz
d. 4.5 MHz
Difference bet sound carrier in 2
adjacent channel - 6 MHz
Line-of-sight transmission is a
characteristic off propagation for the
a. VHF band and higher
frequencies
b. VHF band but not the UHF
band
c. radio frequencies below 1
MHz
d. AM picture signal but not the
FM sound signal
LOS transmission - VHF band and
higher frequencies

Which of the following statements is

true?
a. negative transmission
means that the carrier
amplitude decrease for
white
b. negative transmission means
that the carrier amplitude
decrease for black
c. vestigial sideband
transmission-both upper and
lower SB transmitted
d. vestigial SB transmissionmodulated picture carrier has
only upper envelope
True statement - negative
transmission means decreases for
white
With a 0.5-MHz video signal
modulating the picture carrier
a. both upper and lower
frequencies are
transmitted
b. only the upper side
frequency is transmitted
c. no side frequencies are
transmitted
d. only the lower side frequency
is transmitted

In channel 14 (470 to 476 MHz), the

3.58-MHz color signal is transmitted at
(Board Nov.2006)
a. 474.83 MHz
b. 471.25 MHz
c. 473.25 MHz
d. 475.25 MHz
3.58 MHz color signal transmission 474.83 MHz
The difference between the sound
carrier and color sub- carrier
frequencies is
a. 0.92 MHz
b. 0.25 MHz
c. 4.5 MHz
d. 1.25 MHz
Sound minus color - 0.92 MHz
The maximum deviation of the FM
sound signal, in kilohertz is
a. 25
b. 10
c. 75
d. 100
Max FM deviation 25

Tilting is necessary - zero guard

bands

0.5-MHZ video modulating the picture

carrier - both upper and lower
frequencies are transmitted

Which of the following applies for

monochrome picture?
a. chroma amplifier off
b. chroma amplifier on picture
tube off
c. delay time open
d. picture tube off

Which system uses a laser light beam

for playback?

In all standard television broadcast

channels, the difference between the

Monochrome picture - chroma

amplifier off

which is not tuned to 3.58 MHz?

a. video preamplifier
b. chroma amplifier
c. burst amplifier
d. color demodulator input
Not tuned to 3.5 MHz - video
preamplifier
The contrast control is in the _______
a. Y video amplifier
b. chroma amplifier
c. color killer
d. delay line
Contrast control - Y video amplifier
The color level control is in the
a. BPA
b. AFPC
c. Demodulator
d. G-Y amplifier
Color level control BPA

Color oscillator feeds this - color

demodulators
Drafting color bars in the picture
indicate trouble in the Y
a. AFPC for color oscillator
b. Chroma BPA
c. Color killer
d. Y video amplifier
Drafting color bars trouble - AFPC for
color oscillator

Beat freq bet 3.58 MHz and 4.5MHz 0.92

What is the gain control of RF and IF?

a. AGC
b. AFPC
c. Modulator
d. demodulator

Color oscillator malfunction - no color

Varies phase angle tint

Which signal needs a 0.8 us time

delay?
a. Y video
b. 3.58-MHz chroma
c. B-Y video
d. color burst
Needs 0.8 us time delay - Y video
The output of the burst separator
feeds the
a. AFPC for color oscillator
b. color demodulators
c. G-Y adder
d. Y video amplifier
Burst separators feed - AFPC for
color oscillator
The output of the color oscillator feeds
the
a. color demodulators
b. chroma BPA
c. picture tube
d. burst separator

Contrast of picture - video amplifier

What is
a.
b.
c.

Which control varies the phase angle

of the demodulated color video
signal?
a. tint
b. color level
c. drive
d. picture

Sets Y video signal balance - drive

controls

What is the contrast of picture?

a. video amplifier
b. composite video
c. BPA chroma
d. BPA

The beat frequency between the 3.58MHz color subcarrier and the 4.5-MHz
sound signal is
a. 0.92 MHz
b. 3.58 MHz
c. 4.8 MHz
d. 4.5 MHz

The color oscillator does not operate.

The trouble is
a. no color
b. incorrect hues
c. excessive confetti
d. no picture

The balance for Y video signals to the

three guns in the picture tube is set
by the
a. drive controls
b. screen controls
c. tint control
d. contrast control

Channel 4 (66-72 MHz) transmitted 267.25 MHz carrier freq. 69.25

MHz upper side freq.

Which of the following stages must be

on during horizontal flyback time?
a. burst separator
b. Y video filter
c. chroma BPA
d. R-Y video amplifier
On stage during horizontal flyback burst separator
Which of the following stages has bias
from the ACC and color-killer circuits?
a. chroma BPA
b. R-Y demodulator
c. R-Y video amplifier
d. color oscillator
Has bias from ACC - chroma BPA
A crystal-ringer circuit is used for the
a. AFPC on color oscillator
b. Y video amplifier
c. color demodulators
d. chroma BPA
Uses crystal-ringer circuit - AFPC on
color oscillator
With a 2 MHz video signal modulating
the picture carrier signal9for channel
4(66-72 MHz), which of the ff.
frequencies area transmitted?
a. 267.25 MHz carrier freq.
69.25 MHz upper side freq.
b. 66 MHz carrier freq. 68 MHz
upper side freq.
c. 71.75 MHz carrier freq. 6973 MHz side freq.
d. 367.25 MHz carrier freq.
65.25-69.25 MHz side freq.

d.

the audio signal output?

FM detector
AFPC
AGC
Demodulator

Audio signal output - FM detector

Gain control of RF and IF AGC

IF conversion is...
a. Mixer

b.
c.
d.

Modulator
Demodulator
AGC

IF conversion - mixer
Help's the synchronization of picture..
a. Sync separator
b. AGC
c. AFPC
d. Modulator
Synchronization of picture - sync
separator
Brightness of raster
a. high-voltage supply
b. low-voltage supply
c. modulator
d. AGC
Brightness of raster - high-voltage
supply
Dc electrode voltages
a. low-voltage supply
b. high-voltage supply
c. modulator
d. demodulator
Dc electrode voltages - low-voltage
supply
Problems in TV snowy picture the
cause is
a. RF amplifier
b. Local oscillator
c. IF amplifier
d. Modulator
Snowy picture - RF amplifier

Adjacent-channel selectivity
a. IF wave traps
b. IF amplifier
c. pre-amplifier
d. demodulator
Adjacent channel selectivity - IF
wave traps
Baseband video signal
a. video detector
b. video heads
c. capstan
d. AGC
Baseband video signal - video
detector
Which of the ff. is a midband cable TV
channel is
a. A or 14
b. B or 14
c. B or 15
d. A or 15
Midband cable TV - A or 14
Coaxial cable for distribution systems
has an impedance of
a. 150 ohms
b. 100 ohms
c. 75 ohms
d. 120 ohms
Coax cable impedance - 150 ohms
The cable converter output for the TV
receiver is usually on channel
a. 3
b. 4
c. 7
d. 2
Cable converter TV channel 3
A tap for the subscriber drop line has
a
a. high tap loss
b. low tap loss
c. moderate tap loss
d. zero tap loss
Tap subscriber drop line - high tap
loss

c.
d.

Weak signal causes the

picture look small or thin
Strong signal causes the
picture look small or thin

True - Weak signal cause snow in

the picture
The upstream signal in two-way cable
systems has the freq. of
a. 5 to 30 MHz

b.
c.
d.

10 to 25 MHz
10 to 100 MHz
8 to 20 MHz

upstream signal in two-way cable -5

to 30 MHz
A typical value for the IF signal, in
megahertz for up-down cable
converter is
a. 612.754
b. 625.25
c. 675.25
d. 630.25
Typical IF signal up-down converter 612.75
Frequency synthesis is used for the
a. VCO in the up-converter
b. VCO in the mid-converter
c. VCO in the down-converter
d. none of these
Frequency synthesis - VCO in the
up-converter
For in-band descramblers, the
decoding pulses are sent on the
a. sound carrier
b. video carrier
c. sound and video carrier
d. none of these
In-band descramblers are sent sound carrier
A trunk cable run has a loss of -20
dBmv. To make up for thi9this loss,
the voltage gain of the next amplifier
should at least be
a. 10
b. 20
c. 5
d. 30
loss of -20 dBmv should at least - 10

The most popular plug for the RG-59U

coaxial cable is
a. F connector
b. E connector
c. G connector
d. H connector
Popular plug RG-59U - F connector
Which of the ff. is true?
a. Weak signal cause snow in
the picture
b. Strong signal cause iceberg
in the picture