HTEL 104 Antenna Engineering

Assignment 1 Due: 27-01-2012

1. Briefly explain what you understand by far field and near field region.

2. Calculate the power gain (in decibels) and the half-power beam width of a parabolic dish
antenna 30m in diameter that is radiating at 4 GHz.

3. A 50 transmission line feeds a lossless one-half-wavelength long dipole antenna. The
antenna impedance is 73 . If its radiation intensity u( 0, ) is given as, u = B
o
Sin
3
0, find
the maximum overall gain.

4. In a transmitting system, the output of the final high-power amplifier is 500 W, and the line
feeding its antenna has an attenuation of 20%. If the gain of the transmitting antenna is 60dB,
find the EIRP in dB
w
.

5. Design a half-wave dipole at 1 GHz. Determine:
(a) The length of this dipole
(b) The length of the monopole if a monopole is used instead of a dipole
(c) The power density (in mill watts per square centimetres) and rms E-field (in V/m) at a
distance of 1 km if the transmit power P
t
= 10W.

6. A distance of 100 separates two lossless X-band horn antennas (Figure 1). Reflection
coefficients at the terminals of transmitting and receiving antennas are 0.1 and 0.2,
respectively. Maximum directivities of the transmitting and receiving antennas are 16 and 20
dB, respectively. Assuming that the input power in a lossless transmission line connected to
the transmitting antenna is 2W and that the two antennas are aligned for maximum radiation
between them and are polarization matched, find the power input to the receiver.


Figure 1. Set up for X-band horn antennas
7. The beam of an antenna is rotationally symmetric. Within the 1 wide beam, the pattern
level is P
n
= 1, and outside the beam the pattern level is P
n
= 0. (In practice, this kind of a
beam is not realisable.) What is the directivity of this antenna?
8. Consider two dipole antennas, A and B, having lengths of 0.1 and 0.5 respectively. Both
have a feed current of 1A. (a) What are the radiated powers? (b) Which dipole antenna is less
effective and why?