Nome Saktion om: ECE 4370: Antenna Engineering TEST 1 (Spring 2014) Please read all instructions before continuing with the tost ‘This is a closed notes, closed book, closed friend, open mind test. On your desk you showed coaly have writing Instrumonts and » ealoulator. No internct-enabled deviees. Show all work, (It helps mo to give partial credit.) Work all problems in the spaces low the ‘problem statement, IF you nced more room, use the back of tae page. DO NOT use or attach ‘extra shects of paper for work ‘Work intelligetly ~ read through the exom and do the easiest problems frst. Save the bard cones for last All necessary snathematical formulas ate included ether ix the probiem statomtents or the last page of this test. ‘You have 80 urinates to complete this exataination. When the proctor enonoes a “last call” for exatnination papers, he will leave the room in 5 minutes. The fact that the proctor does uot havo your examination i hane! sill not stop kis Twill not geacle yout examination if you fail to 1) put your name and GPID number io the upper Lofi-hancdl blanks on this page or 2) sign the blank below acinorledging the ters of this teat and the honor eacle policy. ‘= Have a nice day? Pledge Signative: F artnowtedge the above terms for taking this exammnution. J have neither given nor resived wea ‘Moris help om this test. Ihave fallowat the Geargia Tech honor code im preparing an subratting te test.1. Mystory Antonna: Bolow is the far-field expression for tho radiated Poynting vector for an antenna operating, at 10 GHz. This antenna radiates a circular beam centered om the :-axis Answer the following questions basod on this distribution. (88 points) $.(0,9,6) = MON s ford = %, 0 elsewhere IE = 63m k= 2" > 209 ok A LEED sve00 4? 377 (0) Write expressions fr the E-field and Hild phasor-frm sluts forthe rudiated waves in three-dimensions. Assume that the E-field polarization is in the @ direction. (20 points) Mees Wks Sat Ge tl <5 4h Vi 4 Ho= Bey = Vai honbiim E> E,be4l-\2t9) 2 Steph suane, fi)> paborpl se) o. CIM expl yt oe (b) What is the half-power beanwidth (in degrees) of this antenna? (5 points) bemuidthis 2-0, or 30° (c) If this antenna is ideal and lossless, estimate its peak woin, (10 points) Gy, D= power in 2 DS Jopee™ o. Oo ee = e, = peak epee gsotrep ic P. [ae = ehh jos pesinadodd = +) a 2 Cg 587 (PAT IRD “Hee2. Wire Antenna: Below is a diagram of @ peculiar wire antenna, Base your answers to the following questions on this radiating structure. (35 points) (a) Using the standard assumptions for wire antennas, sketch the magnitude and polarity of standing wave currents on this antenna. Sketch this dizeetly on the diagram abewe, (10 points) (b) Make a rough sketeh of what you would expect to be the Spo, elevation-cut (at & = 0) of the gain pattern for this anteana. (10 points) a (©) Would you expect the horizontal seguents of the wire antemia to radiate a signilicant S-component of Esfield” Why or why not? (10 points) j the currents 2, on Bs wil Soctraely tober tore, greld. (0) You mnse ths ating str nan stoma range and fn ht ill ‘tl of {ml wie the pt cent > pe Wha Ue ato ene ofthis nto (pot) QF Rett’ Ars Read ~ 2h = 32,000SL.4. Link Budget in Space: A NASA orbiter is sent to Uranus to take images of the planet aud other sclontific dats. The orbiter mst send its data acioss a distance of 3 x 100" km to Earth. ‘The spaceeraft, powered by a radioisotope thermonuclear generator (RT), transits at a power of 200 W at 30 GHz using a dish antenna that has a gain of 46 dBi, pointed toward Barth, NASA uses its Doop Space Network dish receiver on Barth with 80 dBi of gain to reeive the data signal. Answer the following questions based on this radio ink. (30 points) (0) Based on the 80 UBi receive antenna gain, estimate the diameter of the prestumably cit= cular electromagnetic aperture of this antens T. ‘an ideal aperture ellicieney of C= ithe = l@BY' | 25 p- Ale ae Ae . Qe oolm @30 6t2 — G=GOABI= 1" oe 1 =SLEm (b) What is the effective asotroptc mdiated power (EIRP) of the transmitter in this link in ABN? (10 points) G=4bdBi EIRP= Gr + Pr By sip ten(2000) = 69 SBN =2ZEdRW (c] How much power, in dBm, is received on Earth from this transmission? (10 points) . : ay c P= Ptr 26x 4 Dkalte) ~olory 674BW S0dB) ~ 62.0 - DEUS = 16215 4B” = -[325 d8~