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Question 201

How does a narrow-band roofing filter affect receiver performance?

  1. It improves sensitivity by reducing front-end noise
  2. It improves intelligibility by using low Q circuitry to reduce ringing
  3. It improves blocking dynamic range by attenuating strong signals near the receive frequencyCorrect answer
  4. All these choices are correct

Explanation

A roofing filter sits in the first IF, ahead of the later amplifier and AGC stages, so strong signals a short distance from the receive frequency are attenuated before they can compress those stages. That raises blocking dynamic range; it does not improve sensitivity, and narrow filters tend to add ringing rather than reduce it.

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