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1.

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

A. slow antenna
B. delay antenna
C. dynamic antenna
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» C. dynamic antenna
2.

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

A. helical antennas
B. lens antennas
C. array antennas
D. slot antennas
Answer» C. array antennas
3.

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

A. primary pattern
B. secondary pattern
C. reflector pattern
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» C. reflector pattern
4.

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

A. true
B. false
Answer» B. false
5.

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

A. pyramidal horn
B. conical horn
C. bi-conical horn
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» E.
6.

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

A. true
B. false
Answer» C.
7.

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

A. wire antenna
B. loop antenna
C. helical antenna
D. horn antenna
Answer» B. loop antenna
8.

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

A. loop antennas
B. wire antennas
C. dipole antenna
D. slot antennas
Answer» D. slot antennas
9.

Which of the following antennas produce a vertical radiation pattern?

A. dipole antenna
B. yagi antenna
C. marconi antenna
D. hertz antenna
Answer» D. hertz antenna
10.

What is the impedance of the folded dipole antenna?

A. 50Ω
B. 100Ω
C. 300Ω
D. 20Ω
Answer» D. 20Ω
11.

What is the radiation pattern of an isotropic radiator?

A. doughnut
B. sphere
C. hemisphere
D. circular
Answer» C. hemisphere
12.

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

A. critical power
B. transverse power
C. effective radiated power
D. transmitted power
Answer» D. transmitted power
13.

What does the beam width of an antenna tell us?

A. signal strength
B. signal power
C. directivity
D. degradation
Answer» D. degradation
14.

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

A. 90°
B. 180°
C. 50°
D. 250°
Answer» B. 180°
15.

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

A. doughnut
B. sphere
C. hemisphere
D. circular
Answer» B. sphere
16.

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

A. conical antenna
B. yagi antenna
C. helical antenna
D. marconi antenna
Answer» B. yagi antenna
17.

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

A. no transmission occurs
B. no reception occurs
C. swr is maximum
D. swr is minimum
Answer» E.
18.

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

A. characteristic impedance
B. radiation resistance
C. transmission impedance
D. recovery resistance
Answer» C. transmission impedance
19.

A dipole antenna is also called as?

A. marconi antenna
B. yagi antenna
C. bidirectional antenna
D. hertz antenna
Answer» E.
20.

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

A. radiated power and received power
B. effective area and physical area
C. transmitted power and transmitting gain
D. receiving power and receiving gain
Answer» D. receiving power and receiving gain
21.

Antenna’s efficiency is given by the ratio of

A. effective aperture to physical aperture
B. physical aperture to effective aperture
C. signal power to noise power
D. losses
Answer» B. physical aperture to effective aperture
22.

Space loss occurs due to a decrease in

A. electric field strength
B. efficiency
C. phase
D. signal power
Answer» B. efficiency
23.

Mechanism contributing to a reduction in efficiency is called as

A. amplitude tapering
B. blockage
C. edge diffraction
D. all of the mentioned
Answer» E.
24.

Antennas are used

A. as transducer
B. to focus
C. as transducer & to focus
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» D. none of the mentioned
25.

Which factor adds phase noise to the signal?

A. jitter
B. phase fluctuations
C. jitter & phase fluctuations
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» D. none of the mentioned
26.

Which is the primary cost for degradation of error performance?

A. loss in signal to noise ratio
B. signal distortion
C. signal distortion & loss in signal to noise ratio
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» D. none of the mentioned
27.

Link budget consists of calculation of

A. useful signal power
B. interfering noise power
C. useful signal & interfering noise power
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» D. none of the mentioned
28.

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

A. 1.3333
B. 2.3333
C. 0.4
D. 0.6
Answer» C. 0.4
29.

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

A. 0.33334
B. 1.33334
C. 1
Answer» B. 1.33334
30.

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

A. distance between load and first voltage minimum
B. distance between load and first voltage maximum
C. distance between consecutive minimas
D. distance between a minima and immediate maxima
Answer» B. distance between load and first voltage maximum
31.

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

A. 0.16667
B. 1.6667
C. 0.01667
D. 0.96
Answer» B. 1.6667
32.

A modern device that replaces a slotted line is:

A. digital cro
B. generators
C. network analyzers
D. computers
Answer» D. computers
33.

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

A. electric field amplitude of a standing wave on a terminated line
B. magnetic field amplitude of a standing wave on a terminated line
C. voltage used for excitation
D. current that is generated by the source
Answer» B. magnetic field amplitude of a standing wave on a terminated line
34.

                   has a constant power spectral density.

A. white noise
B. gaussian noise
C. thermal noise
D. shot noise
Answer» B. gaussian noise
35.

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:

A. 3.13×10-23 watts
B. 4.14×10-15 watts
C. 6.14×10-15 watts
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» C. 6.14×10-15 watts
36.

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

A. true
B. false
Answer» C.
37.

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

A. radtb + (1-rad) tp
B. (1-rad) tp
C. radtb
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» B. (1-rad) tp
38.

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

A. increases
B. decreases
C. remains constant
D. remains unaffected
Answer» B. decreases
39.

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

A. true
B. false
Answer» C.
40.

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:

A. 24 db
B. 4 db
C. 19 db
D. insufficient data
Answer» D. insufficient data
41.

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:

A. 19 db
B. 17.1 db
C. 13 db
D. 21.1 db
Answer» C. 13 db
42.

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:

A. 75 %
B. 80 %
C. 90 %
D. insufficient data
Answer» D. insufficient data
43.

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

A. 16.2
B. 14.8
C. 12.5
D. 19.3
Answer» B. 14.8
44.

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

A. 24
B. 18
C. 36
D. 12
Answer» C. 36
45.

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

A. radiation pattern
B. directivity
C. beam width
D. none of the mentioned
Answer» B. directivity
46.

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

A. true
B. false
Answer» B. false
47.

Antennas having a constant pattern in the azimuthal plane are called

A. high gain antenna
B. omni directional antenna
C. unidirectional antenna
D. low gain antenna
Answer» C. unidirectional antenna
48.

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

A. aperture antennas
B. array antennas
C. printed antennas
D. wire antennas
Answer» C. printed antennas
49.

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

A. true
B. false
Answer» B. false
50.

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

A. transmitting antenna
B. receiving antenna
C. radar
D. mixer
Answer» B. receiving antenna