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2. What power density is required to produce electric field strength of 1QQ volts
per meter in air?
A. 13.6 W/m2
C. 16.78 W/m2
B. 18.45 W/m2
D. 26.5 W/m2*
Solution:
4. In sky wave propagation what is the critical frequency if Ihe maximum number
of free electrons in a certain ionospheric layer is 1.5 x 1012 per cubic meter?
A. 14 MHz
C. 12 MHz
B. 13 MHz
D. 11 MHz*
Solution:
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7. In a VHF mobile radio system, the base station transmits 100 W at 160 MHz
frequency using half-wave dipole antenna 20 meters above ground. Calculate the
field Strength at the receiving antenna at a height of 4 meters and a distance
of 30 km. (Gain of antenna is 1.64).
A. 25.9 W/m2
C. 41.78 W/m2*
2
B. 13.7 W/m
D. 21.61 W/m2
Solution:
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11. What is the free space loss, in dB, between two microwave parabolic antennas
38.0 kilometer apart operating at 7.0 GHz?
A. 140.89 dB*
C. 220.4 dB
B. 70.23 dB
D. 130.45 dB
Solution:
12. In skywave propagation, if the critical frequency is 25 MHz what is the best
frequency to use? Assume radiation angle of 45o.
A. 30 MHz*
C. 40 MHz
B. 35 MHz
D. 45 MHz
Solution:
13. If the velocity of propagation in a certain medium is 200 x l06, what is its
refractive index?
A. 1
C. 1.5*
B. 1.25
D. 2
Solution:
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16. A mobile radio system base station is installed 50 meters above the ground and
transmits 150 W at 54 MHz. If the transmitting antenna gain is 5.17, how far
will the receiving antenna be, if the antenna height is 30 m and the received
field strength is 22 uV/m.
A. 130,456 m
C. 120,456 m
B. 110,156 m
D. 153,313 m*
Solution:
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17. The antenna is beam 30o above the ground for optimum transmission, Determine
the transmission range, if ionospheric transmission is used and virtual height
is 200 km. Assuming, the earth is flat.
A. 699 km
C. 671 km
B. 570 km
D. 693 km*
Solution:
18. A microwave radio link is installed on a hill 100 m high above the ground. The link is 10 km
from the ground station, is set to transmit 10 W from a parabolic dish having a gain of 3000
over isotropic. Calculate the signal strength received if the height of the ground station is 10
m operating frequency at 250 MHz.
A. 89.76 mV/m
B. 102.34 mV/m
Solution:
C. 98.12 mV/m
D. 99.34 mV/m*
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20. What is the angle of incidence of the radio wave signal at as it moves from air to glass, if the
angle of refraction is 8.2o?
A. 1.19 o
B. 2.81 o
C. 2.93 o *
D. 1.56 o
Solution:
21. A dish designed for operation at 150 MHz is operated at twice that frequency.
By what factor do gain change?
A. doubled
C. increased 2 times
B. halved
D. increased 4 times
Solution:
Solution:
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24. What is the effective area of a Hertzian dipole antenna for unity efficiency at 3 MHz?
A. 1190 m2 *
C. 2581 m2
B. 2182 m2
D. 1245 m2
Solution:
26. Determine the gain of an antenna with respect to a dipofe if its gain with
respect to isotropic is 50 dBi.
A. 34.56 dB
C. 88.25 dB
B. 47.86 dB
D. 44.78 dB
Solution:
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27. If an antenna has a length of 0.125 then what is the radiation resistance?
A. 12.56
C. 13.55 dB
B. 12.34*
D. 15.78 dB
Solution:
28. A helical antenna has the following dimensions: pitch is 1/3 wavelength, diameter is 1/4
wavelength and turns is 27. What is the gain In dB?
A. 19.2 dB*
B. 20.01 dB
Solution:
C. 22.3 dB
D. 34.2 dB
29. What is the phase separation of two antennas 3/8 wavelengths apart?
A. 132o
C. 99.89o
B. 135o*
D. 34.76o
Solution:
30. A 400 feet antenna is to be operated at 6,200 KHz. What is the wavelength at this frequency?
A. 48.4 m*
C. 25.78 m
B. 38.45 m
D. 57.89 m
31. A TVRO installation for use with a C-band satellite (download frequency at 4
GHz); has a diameter of about 3.5 meters and an efficiency of 60% Calculate
its beamwidth.
A. 3 degrees
C. 2.5 degrees
B. 1.5 degrees*
D. 2.75 degrees
Solution:
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32. A 500 kHz antenna radiates 500 W of power The same antenna provides a field strength equal to
1.5 mV/m. If the power delivered by the antenna is increased to 1 kW, what would be the expected
field intensity?
A. increases twice
B. increases by sqrt of two*
C. increases by half
D. decreases by two
Solution:
33. What is the effective radiated power (ERP) of a repeater with 250 W transmitting power output, 3
dB feed line loss, 4 dB duplexer loss, 5 dB circulator loss and feedline antenna gain of 20 dB?
A. 1223.67 W
B. 1577.61 W*
C. 1234.77 W
D. 1556.88 W
Solution:
34. If the antenna current increases 3.4 times, how much does the radiated power increase?
A. decreases by 6 times
C. decreases by 12 times
B. increases by 6 times
D. increases by 12 times*
Solution:
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35. Determine the effective radiated power of an FM transmitter if the input power
to the final amplifier is 370 W with 60% efficiency if the field gain of the
antenna is 1.3, assuming 100% transmission line efficiency.
A. 375.2 W*
C. 456.6 W
B. 234.6 W
D. 332.12 W
Solution:
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38. What is the ohmic resistance of the antenna, if the efficiency of the antenna
is 0.96 and the radiation resistance is 72 ohms.
A. 1 ohms
C. 3 ohms
B. 2 ohms*
D. 4 ohms
Solution:
half-wave
dipole
antenna
if
the
antenna
has
an
C. 3.2
D. 2.2
40. A satellite tracking device uses a helical antenna that is operating at 1.2
GHz. If the optimum diameter of the antenna is 8 cm and 10 turns, what is the
gain of the antenna?
A. 15.78 dB*
C. 22.13 dB
B. 30.34 dB
D. 11.34 dB
Solution:
15N/4
41. A parabolic antenna used in the satellite earth station has beamwidth of 3 o
What is the gain of the antenna if the antenna efficiency is 85%?
A. 3456
C. 3476
B. 4567*
D. 1134
Solution:
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43. For a multimode step-index fiber wilh glass core (n 1=1.53) and a fused quartz
cladding (n2=1.44) determine 1he critical angle.
A. 30.35o
C. 38.37 o
o
B. 70.25 *
D. 35.45 o
Solution:
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44. For a glass (n=1.55) to ethyl alcohol (n= 1.36) interface, and an angle of
incidence or 33 degrees, determine the angle of refraction.
A. 30.35o
C. 38.37 o*
B. 70.25o
D. 35.45 o
Solution:
45. What minimum bandwidth is required to pass a pulse train without distortion if
its rise time is 6 ns?
A. 55.33 MHz*
C. 38.37 MHz
B. 33.55 MHz
D. 35.45 MHz
Solution:
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will
C. 1.75 us*
D. 3.45 us
pass
pulse
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47. The input square wave to an oscilloscope has a rise lime of 15 ns. What is the
rise time of the displayed square wave if the bandwidth of the oscilloscope is
60 MHz?
A. 47. 5 ns
C. 13.4 ns
B. 17.7 ns*
D. 15.67 ns
Solution:
48. What is the maximum permissible value for the pulse-spreading constant of 65
km length fiber that must not lengthen the pulses by more than 200 ns?
A. 30.8 ns/km
C. 4.18 ns/km
B. 27.7 ns/km
D. 3.08 ns/km*
Solution:
49. An optic fiber is made of glass with a surface index of 1.55 and is clad with
another glass with a refractive Index of 1.51. Launching, takes place on air.
Determine the numerical aperture of the fiber
A. 0.30
C. 0.55
B. 0.35*
D. 0.61
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50. What is the number of modes
normalized frequency is 10?
A. 30 modes
B. 50 modes*
Solution:
that
an
optical
fiber
can
support
if
the
C. 80 modes
D. 100 modes
51. Calculate the energy of the photon of infrared light energy at 1.55 um.
A. 1.28 x10-19 J*
C. 3.44 x10-19 J
-19
B. 2.38 x10
J
D. 4.48 x10-19 J
Solution:
52.
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53. An optical fiber is designed to give a numerical aperture of 0.25. what is the
fractional difference between the core and The cladding if the liber is made
of glass with refractive index of 1.51?
A. .0123
C. .0212
B. .0137*
D. .2345
Solution:
54. A fiber glass has a core diameter of 60 um and numerical aperture of 0.235
What is its V-number if the fiber is operates with light source wavelength of
0.735 um?
A. 60.1
C. 60.3
B. 60.2
D. 60.4*
C. 0.0016 micron
D. 0.0044 micron
56. What is the uplink receiver frequency if the downlink transmitter is on channel 4 {3.64 GHz)?
A. 6.1 GHz*
C. 3.3 GHz
B. 7.12 GHz
D. 2.1 GHz
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57. Find the orbital period of a satellite in a circular orbit 600 km above the
surface of the earth
A. 61 hours
C. 3 hours
B. 1.6 hours*
D. 2 hours
Solution:
58. At what height is the satellite from the earth's surface if its sidereal
period is 18 hours?
A. 28486 km*
B. 34567 km
C. 2345 km
D. 23411 km
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59. Materials generally preferred for waveguides are
a. Brass and aluminum*
c. Non-metallic solids
b. Cast iron and steel
d. High carbon steel and vanadian steel
60. Waveguide feeders are pressurized to
a. Reduce loss
c. Detect faults
b. Reduce noise
d. Prevent ingress of moisture*
61. The output of a LASER is monochromatic; this means that it is
a. Infrared
c. Polarized
b. Narrow beam
d. Single frequency*
62.
What do you call the process of speeding up and slowing down the beam of
electrons in the vacuum tube?
a. Velocity modulation*
c. Gyrofrequency
b. Logitudinal velocity
d. Group frequency
63. For a microwave transistor to operate at the highest frequencies, the
(indicate the false answer)
A. collector voltage must be large C. base should be thin
B. collector current must be high
D. emitter area must be large *
64. A varactor diode may be useful at microwave frequencies (indicate the false
answer)
A. for electronic tuning
C. as an oscillator *
B. for frequency multiplication D. as a parametric amplifier
65. If high-order frequency multiplication is required from a diode multiplier,
A. the resistive cutoff frequency must be high
B. a small value of the base resistance is required
C. a step-recovery diode must be used *
D. a large range of capacitance variation is needed
66. A parametric amplifier has an input and output frequency of 2.25 GHz, and is
pumped at 4.5 GHz. It is
A. traveling-wave amplifier
B. degenerative amplifier *
C. lower-sideband up-converter
D. upper-sideband up-converter
67. A non-degenerate parametric amplifier has an input frequency fi and a pump
frequency fp. The idler frequency is
A. fi
B. 2fi
C. fi fp
D. fp fi *
68. Traveling-wave parametric amplifiers are used to
A. provide a greater gain
B. reduce the number of varactor diodes required
C. avoid the need for cooling
D. provide greater bandwidth *
69. A parametric amplifier sometimes uses a circulator to
A. prevent noise feedback *
B. allow the antenna to be used simultaneously for transmission and reception
C. separate the signal and idler frequencies
D. permit more efficient pumping
70. The nondegenerate one-port parametric amplifier should have a high ratio of
pump to signal frequency because this
A. permits satisfactory high frequency operation
B. yields a low noise figure *
C. reduce the pump power required
D. permits satisfactory low frequency operation
71. The wavelength of a wave in a waveguide
A. is greater than of free space *
B. depends only on the waveguide dimensions and the free-space wavelength
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