ESAT: Noise in Communication System

1. Which of the following falls under the industrial frequency range.

A. 8 MHz to 1.43 GHz
B. 15 to 120 MHz
C. 10 MHz to 1.5 GHz
D. 1 to 10 GHz

2. Sunspot cycle in radio wave propagation occurs every how many years?
A. 11 years
B. 10 years
C. 14 years
D. 13 years

3. A type of device noise whose intensity decreases with frequency.

A. Pink Noise
B. Flicker Noise
C. 1/f noise
D. all of them

4. The noise associated with transistors as a result of the discrete particles of the current carries in all form of
semiconductor is known as noise.
A. transistor
B. thermal
C. burst
D. shot

5. A diode generator is required to produce 15µV of noise in a receiver with an input impedance of 75Ω and a noise
bandwidth of 250kHz. Determine the current through the diode in mA.
A. 200 mA
B. 400 mA
C. 500 mA
D. 600 mA

6. if the receiver amplifier operating a VLF range has a 900kΩ input resistor, determine the rms noise voltage in the
output if the gain is 215. Assume external noise can be disregarded and it has an ambient temperature of 12⁰C.
A. 2.4 µV
B. 2.4 mV
C. 4.2 µV
D. 4.2 mV

7. What is the noise voltage of a parallel combination of three 1kΩ resistor on a 1MHz frequency range?
A. 1.15 µV
B. 3.16 µV
C. 2.3 µV
D. 35 µV

8. The signal power at the input to an amplifier is 400µW and noise power is 1µW. At the output, signal power is 2W
and noise power is 80mW. Calculate the noise figure.
A. 6.6 dB
B. 13.2 dB
C. 12.04 dB
D. 14.4 dB
9. Determine the total noise factor for three cascaded amplifiers with a noise factor of 3 and gain of 10dB each.
A. 3.22 dB
B. 10.15 dB
C. 5.08 dB
D. 14.12 dB

(NF 2−1) (NF 3−1) (NF 4 −1)

10. The formula NF T =NF 1 + + + +… is known as.
G1 G1 G2 G1 G2 G3
A. Fris’s Formula
B. Freeze Formula
C. Fresnel Formula
D. Friis’s Formula

11. A satellite receiving system includes a dish antenna (Teq = 30k) connected via a coupling network (Teq = 40k) to a
microwave receiver (Teq = 50k). What is the noise power to the receiver’s input over a 1000kHz frequency range?
A. 1.55 x 10−12 W
B. 1.66 x 10−12 W
C. 1.55 x 10−15 W
D. 1.66 x 10−15 W

12. An amplifier has an impedance of 50Ω. Using a matched-impedance diode noise generator, it is found that the
DUT has doubled noise output power when the diode has a DC current of 14mA. Determine the NF for the DUT.
A. -5.53 dB
B. 11.46 dB
C. 14 dB
D. 24.5 dB

13. If resistance is halved, then noise power is:

A. Unchanged
B. reduced by 75%
C. doubled
D. quadrupled

14. Calculate the output SNR for 4 links, two of which have identical SNR’s of 25 dB and the remaining have each 27
dB.
A. 24 dB
B. 28 dB
C. 20 dB
D. 17 dB

15. A 10kΩ resistor is in parallel with a 0.5µF capacitor. Calculate the effective noise bandwidth.
A. 5 Hz
B. 50 Hz
C. 25 Hz
D. 50 kHz

16. A receiver connected to an antenna whose resistance is 50Ω has an equivalent noise resistance of 30Ω. Calculate
the receiver noise figure.
A. 2.67 dB
B. 1.6 dB
C. 2.04 dB
D. 4.26 dB
17. A 20dB loss is equivalent to:
A. 5.8 Np C. 58 Np
B. 2.3 Np D. 23 Np

18. One would not design a receiver with more sensitivity than required because:
A. it limits the receiver bandwidth
B. It will make the receiver to process signals if is not interested in
C. it will make the receiver more complex
D. Both a and b

19. Noise generated by the signal passing through digital filter while coefficients and other perimeters are being in
an adaptive manner.
A. Zipper Noise
B. Impulse noise
C. Adaptive noise
D. White noise

20. A device incorporated in a communication receiver to reduce impulse noise is called the:
A. Noise Blanker
B. Low Noise Amplifier (LNA)
C. Noise suppressor
D. none of the above

21. The input power to a loss free cable is 5W. If the reflected power is 7dB down of the incident power, the output
power to the load is…
A. 4W
B. 5W
C. 6W
D. 7W

22. Calculate the Excess Noise Ratio (ENR) in dB of a device if the temperature is 940K.
A. 2.5dB
B. 2.8dB
C. 3.5dB
D. 3.8dB

23. The main sun caused disturbances in the ionosphere due to the solar flares and ionospheric storms refers to:
A. Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance (SID)
B. Sporadic E
C. Dellinger dropouts
D. both a and c

24. The method used for reducing unwanted sound refers to:
A. active noise control
B. active noise reduction
C. antinoise
D. all of them

25. is a figure of merit used to represent the quality of satellite on earth station receiver.
A. Noise Figure
B. G/Te
C. C/No
D. SNR