Technician exam question T8C05
Subelement T8, SIGNALS AND EMISSIONS· Group T8C
T8C05
What is a grid locator?
- A.A letter-number designator assigned to a geographic location (correct answer)
- B.A letter-number designator assigned to an azimuth and elevation
- C.An instrument for locating faults in power amplifiers
- D.An instrument for radio direction finding
WhyA grid locator is a letter-number designator assigned to a geographic location. A grid locator, based on the Maidenhead grid system, is a short letter-number code that identifies a specific rectangular patch of the Earth's surface, answer A. It doesn't describe antenna pointing angles (B), and it isn't a piece of test equipment for troubleshooting amplifiers or direction finding (C, D), it's purely a way of encoding geographic location.
Published 2026-08-28 · Last updated 2026-08-28 · Question text is verbatim from the 2026-2030 NCVEC Element 2 pool (public domain); the explanation above is original writing, see our methodology.
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