WOLAITA SODO UNIVERSITY

College of Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Antennas and Radio Wave Propagation –Assignment-II

1. Find the radiation resistance and directivity of a circular loop antenna of radius 0.3183m
operating at 1 MHz. The radius of a wire used is 0.4mm, conductivity of the wire is 57mS/m and
relative permeability =1.
2. (a) A television transmitter antenna has a height of 169 meters and the receiving antenna has a
height of 16 meters. What is the maximum distance through which the TV signal could be received
by space wave propagation?
(b) A receiving antenna is located at 80km from the transmitting antenna. The height of the
transmitting antenna is 100m. What is the required height of the receiving antenna?
3. Consider an array of 16 elements spaced one wavelength apart with currents that are equal in
amplitude and 180out-of-phase. Determine
(a) Total length of the array (b) BWFN (c) HPBW (d) Directivity
4. Explain with necessary diagrams
(a) Maximum Usable Frequency (b) Virtual Height (c) Skip Distance and Skip Zone

5. A thin linear dipole of length l is placed symmetrically about the z-axis. Find the far-zone
spherical electric and magnetic components radiated by the dipole whose current distribution can be
approximated by