Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering

Subject : Antenna and Wave Propagation Subject Code: NEC-504

Session :2017-18 Branch: ECE
Date of submission:

ASSIGNMENT-1
SECTION-A (Short Answer Type Questions)

1. Define Effective Height, Radiation Resistance and Beam width of the antenna.
2. Write a short note on Antenna Temperature, Directivity and Antenna Impedance.
3. Derive a relation between Effective height and Effective Aperture.
4. Derive Friis transmission formula.

SECTION-B (Medium Answer Type Questions)

1. Derive a relation between Effective Aperture and beam area.

2. Explain Gain and derive a relation between directivity and gain.
3. What is effective aperture of an antenna and how it is related to gain?

SECTION-C (Long Answer Type Questions)

1. Define Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), beam efficiency, Antenna Beam Area.

2. Explain fields from oscillating dipole.
3. Write short notes on:
a) Hertzian Dipole
b) Short Electric Dipole
c) HPBW and BWFN
d) Reciprocity Theorem
e) Directivity and Resolution
f)
 Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering

Subject : Antenna and Wave Propagation Subject Code: NEC-504

Session :2017-18 Branch: ECE
Date of submission:
ASSIGNMENT-2

SECTION-A (Short Answer Type Questions)

1. Explain Point Source, Power Theorem and its Application to an Isotropic Source.
2. Explain Linear Broadside Arrays with Non- uniform Amplitude Distributions.
SECTION-B (Medium Answer Type Questions)

1. Using reciprocity theorem to antennas show that effective lengths of transmitting and
receiving antennas are the same.
2. Explain Principle of Pattern Multiplication for array of point sources. Also give two
examples of short dipoles.
3. Derive Radiation Resistance of λ/2 Antenna.
4. Explain Vertical Antennas Above a Plane Ground.
5. Explain Arrays of Two Isotropic Point Sources for all the cases.

SECTION-C (Long Answer Type Questions)

1. Explain Broadside and End-fire array, considering linear array of four isotropic sources.
2. Linear Arrays of n Isotropic Point Sources of Equal Amplitude and Spacing.
3. Derive all the Fields of a Short Dipole.
4. Derive Radiation Resistance of Short Electric Dipole.
5. Derive gain for array of two Driven λ/2 Elements for Broadside Case and End-Fire Case,
6. Explain Horizontal Antennas Above a Plane Ground.
7. Explain Rhombic antenna and folded dipole Antennas
 Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering

Subject : Antenna and Wave Propagation Subject Code: NEC-504

Session :2017-18 Branch: ECE
Date of submission:

ASSIGNMENT-3

SECTION-A (Short Answer Type Questions)

1. Explain Yagi-Uda antenna in detail. Write its advantages and disadvantages.

2. Explain Log Periodic antenna. Write its applications also.
3. How loop antenna is used as direction finder.
4. Explain slot antenna.

SECTION-B (Medium Answer Type Questions)

1. Explain practical design considerations for the Monofilar axial Mode Helical antenna.
2. Define and explain the two modes of helical antenna.
3. Derive field intensity due to a loop antenna if its dimension is greater than the
wavelength.
4. Explain with proper diagram different types of horn antenna and calculate the length of it.
5. Derive Gain of corner reflector antenna.

SECTION-C (Long Answer Type Questions)

1. Explain parabolic reflector antennas. Enlist and compare various feed mechanisms for the
same.
2. Explain flat sheet reflector antenna and paraboloidal reflector with Patterns of Large
Circular Apertures with Uniform Illumination,
3. Explain the working of microstrip antenna. Write its advantages and disadvantages. Write
its applications also.
 Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering
Subject : Antenna and Wave Propagation Subject Code: NEC-504
Session :2017-18 Branch: ECE
Date of submission:

ASSIGNMENT-4

SECTION-A (Short Answer Type Questions)

1. Explain fading with its different types.

2. Explain duct propagation and multi hopping.
3. Explain ionization.
4. Explain Multi-Hop Propagation.

SECTION-B (Medium Answer Type Questions)

1. Give effects of Imperfect earth and curvature of earth. Distinguish clearly between
surface wave, space wave and sky wave.
2. What is the space wave propagation? Derive the relation of maximum range covered by
the space wave.
3. Draw the structural details of the ionosphere.

SECTION-C (Long Answer Type Questions)

1. Explain MUF, Critical frequency, Virtual height, Multi hop propagation and skip distance
as applied to sky wave propagation.
2. Calculate the expression for refractive index for sky wave propagation.
3. Derive relation Between MUF and the Skip Distance.