Quiznetik

Antennas and Microwave Engineering | Set 1

1. The major drawback of frequency multipliers is that they have:

Correct : C. complex design

2. Oscillators operating at millimeter wavelength are difficult to realize and are also less efficient.

Correct : A. true

3. A major disadvantage of frequency multipliers is that they multiply the noise factor along with frequency.

Correct : A. true

4. If a frequency multiplier has a multiplication factor of 10, then the increase in noise level due to frequency multiplication is:

Correct : B. 20 db

5. In a diode frequency multiplier, an input signal of frequency fo applied to the diode is terminated with                   at all frequencies other than required harmonic.

Correct : B. reactive impedance

6. Resistive multipliers are more efficient as compared to reactive multipliers.

Correct : B. false

7. Reactive multipliers have a disadvantage that they cannot be used at very high frequencies and they become less efficient.

Correct : A. true

8. For a resistive frequency multiplier of multiplication factor 2, the maximum theoretical conversion efficiency is:

Correct : B. 25 %

9. is a device that converts electrons to photons or vice-versa.

Correct : A. antenna

10. The basic equation of radiation that is applied to any antenna irrespective of the type of the antenna is:

Correct : A. il= qv

11. The number of patterns radiation pattern required to specify the characteristic are :

Correct : A. three

12. The beam width of the antenna pattern measured at half power points is called:

Correct : A. half power beam width

13. An antenna has a field pattern E (θ) =cos θ. cos 2θ. The first null beam width of the antenna is:

Correct : B. 900

14. The solid area through which all the power radiated by the antenna is:

Correct : A. beam area

15. A                      is a device that converts a guided electromagnetic wave on a transmission line into a plane wave propagating in free space.

Correct : A. transmitting antenna

16. Dipole antennas are an example for:

Correct : A. wire antennas

17. antennas consist of a regular arrangement of antenna elements with a feed network

Correct : B. array antennas

18. A parabolic reflector used for reception with the direct broadcast system is 18 inches in diameter and operates at 12.4 GHz. The far-field distance for this antenna is:

Correct : D. 17.3 m

19. of an antenna is a plot of the magnitude of the far field strength versus position around the antenna.

Correct : A. radiation pattern

20. Antennas having a constant pattern in the azimuthal plane are called

Correct : B. omni directional antenna

21. Beamwidth and directivity are both measures of the focusing ability of an antenna.

Correct : A. true

22. If the beam width of an antenna in two orthogonal planes are 300 and 600. Then the directivity of the antenna is:

Correct : B. 18

23. If the power input to an antenna is 100 mW and if the radiated power is measured to be 90 mW, then the efficiency of the antenna is:

Correct : C. 90 %

24. If an antenna has a directivity of 16 and radiation efficiency of 0.9, then the gain of the antenna is:

Correct : A. 16.2

25. Gain of an antenna is always greater than the directivity of the antenna.

Correct : B. false

26. A rectangular horn antenna has an aperture area of 3λ × 2λ. Then the maximum directivity that can be achieved by this rectangular horn antenna is:

Correct : C. 19 db

27. A rectangular horn antenna has an aperture area of 3λ × 2λ. If the aperture efficiency of an antenna is 90%, then the directivity of the antenna is:

Correct : B. 17.1 db

28. A resistor is operated at a temperature of 300 K, with a system bandwidth of 1 MHz then the noise power produced by the resistor is:

Correct : B. 4.14×10-15 watts

29. With an increase in operating frequency, the background noise temperature:

Correct : A. increases

30. The noise temperature of an antenna is given by the expression:

Correct : A. radtb + (1-rad) tp

31. Low is the G/T ratio of an antenna, higher is its efficiency.

Correct : B. false

32. has a constant power spectral density.

Correct : A. white noise

33. Slotted line is a transmission line configuration that allows the sampling of:

Correct : A. electric field amplitude of a standing wave on a terminated line

34. If the standing wave ratio for a transmission line is 1.4, then the reflection coefficient for the line is:

Correct : A. 0.16667

35. If the reflection coefficient of a transmission line is 0.4, then the standing wave ratio is:

Correct : B. 2.3333

36. In the expression for phase of the reflection coefficient, Lmin stands for :

Correct : A. distance between load and first voltage minimum

37. If the normalized load impedance of a transmission line is 2, then the reflection co- efficient is:

Correct : A. 0.33334

38. Link budget consists of calculation of

Correct : C. useful signal & interfering noise power

39. Which is the primary cost for degradation of error performance?

Correct : C. signal distortion & loss in signal to noise ratio

40. Which factor adds phase noise to the signal?

Correct : C. jitter & phase fluctuations

41. Antennas are used

Correct : C. as transducer & to focus

42. Mechanism contributing to a reduction in efficiency is called as

Correct : D. all of the mentioned

43. Space loss occurs due to a decrease in

Correct : A. electric field strength

44. Antenna’s efficiency is given by the ratio of

Correct : A. effective aperture to physical aperture

45. Effective radiated power of an isotropic radiator can be given as a product of

Correct : C. transmitted power and transmitting gain

46. A dipole antenna is also called as?

Correct : D. hertz antenna

47. The impedance at the center of the antenna is known as?

Correct : B. radiation resistance

48. What happens when the radiation resistance of the antenna matches the characteristic impedance of the transmission line?

Correct : D. swr is minimum

49. The type of dipole antenna that has a higher band width is called as?

Correct : A. conical antenna

50. The radiation pattern of a half-wave dipole has the shape of a

Correct : A. doughnut

51. What is the beam width for a half wave dipole antenna?

Correct : A. 90°

52. What does the beam width of an antenna tell us?

Correct : C. directivity

53. What is the power radiated by the antenna with gain called as?

Correct : C. effective radiated power

54. What is the radiation pattern of an isotropic radiator?

Correct : B. sphere

55. What is the impedance of the folded dipole antenna?

Correct : C. 300Ω

56. Which of the following antennas produce a vertical radiation pattern?

Correct : C. marconi antenna

57. The members of the antenna family which are made of wires of certain value in terms of operating wavelength are called:

Correct : C. dipole antenna

58. The antenna in which location of the feed determines the direction of the lobe are:

Correct : A. wire antenna

59. Based on the size of the loops, loop antennas are classified as small and large loops. This is the only classification of loop antenna.

Correct : B. false

60. Antenna that does not belong to the horn antenna family among the following are:

Correct : D. none of the mentioned

61. Reflector antennas are widely used to modify radiation patterns of radiating elements.

Correct : A. true

62. The pattern of the reflector in a reflector antenna is called:

Correct : B. secondary pattern

63. antennas have gain less than reflector antennas but have more lenient tolerance on surfaces.

Correct : B. lens antennas

64. Lens antennas are classified into two types. One being fast antenna, the other one is:

Correct : B. delay antenna

65. The antennas which offer high operational bandwidth and the antenna parameters are maintained over a wide range of antennas are called:

Correct : A. wide band antennas

66. High directivity required in RADAR communication is satisfied using this type of antennas:

Correct : B. antenna arrays

67. The terminal impedance of a dipole antenna is 710 Ω. The terminal impedance of the slot antenna given the intrinsic impedance of air is 377 Ω is:

Correct : B. 50 Ω

68. When the separation between two lines that carry the TEM wave approaches λ the wave tends to be radiated.

Correct : A. true

69. An antenna has a field pattern of E (θ) = cos2 θ, θ varies between 0 and 900. Half power beam width of the antenna is:

Correct : B. 660

70. Power radiated from an antenna per unit solid angle is called radiation intensity.

Correct : A. true

71. Antennas are bidirectional devices.

Correct : A. true

72. Which of the following is false regarding Antenna array?

Correct : B. directivity decreases

73. Electrical size of antenna is increased by which of the following?

Correct : A. antenna array

74. For long distance communication, which of the property is mainly necessary for the antenna?

Correct : A. high directivity

75. Which of the following is false about the single antenna for long distance communication?

Correct : B. no side lobes

76. The electrical size of antenna is increased by antenna array to avoid size lobes compared to single antenna.

Correct : A. true

77. Total resultant field obtained by the antenna array is given by which of following?

Correct : A. vector superposition of individual field from the element

78. If the progressive shift in antenna array is equal to zero then it is called

Correct : A. broad side

79. What is the progressive phase shift of the end-fire array?

Correct : C. 180

80. Which of the following statement about antenna array is false?

Correct : B. field pattern is the sum of individual elements in array

81. are used in the final stages of radar and radio transmitters to increase the radiated power level.

Correct : A. power amplifiers

82. Important factors to be considered for power amplifier design are:

Correct : D. all of the mentioned

83. 1 MICROWAVE PASSIVE COMPONENTS: DIRECTIONAL COUPLER, POWER DIVIDER, MAGIC TEE ATTENUATOR, RESONATOR

Correct : A. true

84. Gain of power amplifiers                      with increase in operating frequency.

Correct : B. decreases

85. amplifiers are linear circuits, where the transistor is biased to conduct over the entire range of the input signal cycle.

Correct : A. class a amplifiers

86. A class B amplifier consists of                 transistors in order to conduct the input signal over the entire cycle.

Correct : B. 2

87. Power amplifiers in the increasing order of efficiency is:

Correct : A. class a, b, c

88. Behavior of a transistor in power amplifiers is unpredictable at all input signal levels.

Correct : B. false

89. If the output power of an amplifier is 10 V, and the input power supplied to the amplifier is 0.229 V given that the DC voltage used is

Correct : A. 25%

90. If a power amplifier has an output power of 10 W, and an amplifier gain of 16.4 dB, then the input drive power is:

Correct : C. 229 mw

91. GaAs is used in the fabrication of GUNN diodes because:

Correct : D. less forbidden energy gap

92. In a GaAs n-type specimen, the current generated is constant irrespective of the electric filed applied to the specimen.

Correct : B. false

93. When the electric field applied to GaAs specimen is less than the threshold electric field, the current in the material:

Correct : A. increases linearly

94. GaAs is used in fabricating Gunn diode. Gunn diode is:

Correct : A. bulk device

95. The electrodes of a Gunn diode are made of:

Correct : A. molybdenum

96. When either a voltage or current is applied to the terminals of bulk solid state compound GaAs, a differential              is developed in that bulk device.

Correct : A. negative resistance

97. The number of modes of operation for n type GaAs is:

Correct : C. four

98. The free electron concentration in N-type GaAs is controlled by:

Correct : A. effective doping

99. The modes of operation of a Gunn diode are illustrated in a plot of voltage applied to the Gunn diode v/s frequency of operation of Gunn diode.

Correct : B. false

100. The mode of operation in which the Gunn diode is not stable is:

Correct : A. gunn oscillation mode