SCARS LIVE QUESTIONS
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LIVE QUESTIONS FOR OCTOBER 3 & 4 - 2026, SUPPLIED BY K2HA
Why do many modern cars no longer feature a traditional engine oil dipstick?
A: Electric oil pumps automatically refill the reservoir from a backup tank.
B: Electronic sensors track oil levels and display them on a digital dashboard screen.
C: Synthetic oils do not evaporate, making manual level checks completely unnecessary.
D: Modern engines are vacuum-sealed, and removing a dipstick would disrupt the pressure.
2. According to major tech manufacturers, at what percentage should you charge a phone's battery before storing it away long-term?
A: 100%
B: 50%
C: 25%
D: 10%
3. Which of these methods to include D-STAR into QSO-One would NOT work?
A: Tunneling the D-STAR digital stream directly through an established AllStarLink node by mapping the IAX2 audio frames to use standard PCM uncompressed audio.
B: Porting the Android-based DVSwitch/DroidStar open-source architecture into the app's framework.
C: Deploying a server-side hardware transcoder array using AMBE3000 chips to bridge an open codec like M17 to D-STAR reflectors.
D: Modifying the app to connect directly to an ircDDB gateway by emulating the MMDVM hotspot protocol over UDP.
4. You are trying to transmit a friendly message to a Gen Z or younger internet user. However, due to a major generational "frequency shift," certain emojis are now decoded as passive-aggressive, cold, or deeply uncool. Which of the following emojis is actually safe to use without causing a misunderstanding?
A: 👍 (Thumbs Up)
B: 🙂 (Slightly Smile)
C: 😂 (Laughing-Crying)
D: None of the above
THE ANSWERS TO THE ABOVE QUESTIONS WILL BE POSTED HERE SHORTLY AFTER THE CONCLUSION OF THE SUNDAY RAGCHEW NET
LIVE QUESTIONS FOR SEPTEMBER 26 & 27 - 2026, SUPPLIED BY K2HA
1. What share of every dollar, euro, and yen in the world exists as physical cash?
A: 8%
B: 33%
C: 50%
D: 70%
2. AllStarLink delivers superior, telco-grade VoIP quality compared to legacy EchoLink primarily because its core infrastructure is built on which platform?
A: A proprietary, closed-source hardware equalizer
B: The open-source Asterisk PBX telephone switching platform
C: Analog frequency inversion modules
D: Low-frequency RF digital encoding loops
3. What digital audio limitation causes EchoLink to have significantly lower audio fidelity compared to AllStarLink?
A: EchoLink relies on a highly compressed, low-sample-rate GSM codec.
B: EchoLink uses hardware-level analog frequency inversion scrambling.
C: EchoLink enforces closed-source server-side audio equalization.
D: EchoLink is strictly bound to lower RF transmission frequencies.
4. Which of the following runs on the most massive codebase?
A: A Boeing 787 Dreamliner passenger jet
B: The entire Android operating system
C: A modern premium car
D: An F-35 fighter jet