Modern University

For Technology and Academic year:2023

Department: Electrical Engineering Information Semester: Spring
Specialization: Communication Eng. Faculty of Engineering Subject: Electromagnetic Principles
Lecturer: Dr. Mohamed Sharaf Code: ELTE 216

Sheet 2

Answer all the following Questions:

1) Calculate the wavelength of the waves produced by FM radio

station 2WS, which transmits at a frequency of 101.7 MHz in:
(a) air.
(b) in a cable which has a velocity factor of 0.71.

2) A fixed-frequency signal has a wavelength of 10 cm when

travelling along a cable.
(a) If the velocity factor of the cable is 0.85, what is the frequency
of the signal?
(b)If the cable is 150 meters in length, how long will it take the
signal to travel from one end to the other?

3) A signal of frequency 1 MHz and amplitude 20V rms is fed into a

section of cable 100m long. At the far end the output voltage is
measured to be 1.5V rms.
Estimate what the attenuation of the cable (in dB/meter) would be
at a frequency of 200 MHz.

4) A TV transmission at a frequency of 400 MHz is picked up by an

antenna, which produces a 30 mV signal. Since there is a long
cable run to the TV receiver, an amplifier with a gain of 20 dB is
used near the antenna to boost the received signal. This amplified
signal is then passed through a 50 metre length of cable to the TV
receiver. The particular type of cable used has a loss of 10 dB per
100m at 100 MHz
Calculate:
(a) the signal voltage at the TV receiver.
(b) the signal voltage at the TV receiver if the amplifier were not
used.
5) A signal at 200 MHz from the transmitter shown in the diagram
below is
received by the two antennas, then carried by two coaxial cables of
different length to two receivers, labelled A and B. The cables both
have
an attenuation of 6 dB/100m at 100 MHz.
Assume that: the signal at antenna B is 6 dB higher than that at
Calculate the relative power (in dB) of the signals at the two
receivers.

6) The Dick Smith catalogue lists a particular type of TV antenna

coaxial cable, with a quoted loss of 10.2 dB per 100 m at 200 MHz
Assuming skin-effect losses only.
(a) estimate its attenuation per meter at 530 MHz.
(b) The Dick Smith catalogue lists a particular type of TV antenna
coaxial cable, with a quoted loss of 10.2 dB per 100 m at 200
MHz Assuming skin-effect losses only, estimate its attenuation
per meter at 530 MHz
(c) You are an engineer working for SBS TV (Channel 28, 530
MHz), and are installing a new transmitter and antenna. There is
a long 80m cable run from the transmitter to the antenna, and
normally you would use rather expensive super-low-loss cable
for this job. Unfortunately, your budget has been cut yet again
by the government, and you decide to economise by using this
same cable from Dick Smith. How much of your 30kW of
transmitter power reaches the antenna?