1) The basic requirements of transmitting antennas are:

a) High efficiency

b) Low side lobes

c) Large signal to noise ratio

d) Lone of the mentioned

Answer : a

2) __________ is a device that converts electrons to photons or vice-versa.

a) Antenna

b) Electron gun

c) Photon amplifier

d) Microwave tube

Answer : a
3) An antenna has a loss resistance of 10ohm, power gain of 20 and directivity of 22. Calculate its

radiation resistance. Given: RL=10

a) 10ohm

b) 50ohm

c) 100ohm

d) 20ohm

Answer : c

4) Unit of Radiation Intensity (U)

a) watts

b) watts/meter

c) meter

d) watts/steradian

Answer : d
5) ____________ is a graph of the spatial variation of the electric or magnetic

field component along a constant radius.

a) retarded potential

b) retarded time

c) field pattern

d) polarization

Answer : c

6) Let the maximum effective aperture of a beam antenna operating at 00MHz

having HPBW of 28° and 35° in orthogonal planes intersecting the beam axis. Assume negligible
minor lobes.(2m)

a) 1.15 m²

b) 1.3 m²

c) 1.21 m

d) 1.21 m²

Answer : d
7) An antenna has a field pattern of E (θ) = cos2 θ, θ varies between 0 and 90°. Half power beam
width of the antenna is:

a) 33°

b) 66°

c) 1200°

d) None of the mentioned

Answer : b

8) The number of patterns radiation pattern required to specify the characteristic are :

a) Three

b) Four

c) Two

d) Five

Answer : a

9) The half power beam width of an antenna in both θ and φ are 400 each. Then the gain of the
antenna is:

a) 23

b) 25

c) 14

d) 21

Answer : b

10) As the beam area of an antenna decreases, the directivity of the antenna:

a) Increases

b) Decreases

c) Remains unchanged
d) Depends on the type of the antenna

Answer : a

11) The transmitting antenna sends __________ and receiver antenna receive ________ .

a) Spherical wave , plane wave

b) Infrared waves , plane waves

c) Radio waves , Spherical waves

d) Plane waves , Radio waves

Answer : a

12) ______________ are most commonly used at microwave and millimeter wave frequencies, and
have moderate to high gains.

a) Aperture antennas

b) Printed antennas

c) Wire antennas

d) Transmitting antennas

Answer: a

13) _____________ is the type of antenna in which variable-phase shifters are used to electronically
scan the main beam of the antenna

a) Aperture antennas

b) Printed antennas

c) Array antennas

d) Transmitting antennas

Answer: c

14) The solid area through which all the power radiated by the antenna is:

a) Beam area

b) Effective area
c) Aperture area

d) Beam efficiency

Answer : a

15) Ideally, the number of point sources an antenna can resolve is numerically equal to:

a) Gain of the antenna

b) Directivity

c) Beam efficiency

d) Beam area

Answer : b

16) A radio link has 15 W transmitter connected to an antenna of 2.5 m²

effective aperture at 5GHz. The receiving antenna has an effective aperture of 0.5 m²

and is located at a 15 Km line of sight distance from transmitting antenna. Assuming lossless,
matched antennas, the power delivered to the receiver is: (2m)

a) 20 µW

b) 15 µm

c) 23 µm

d) 25 µm

Answer : c

17) A half wave dipole is λ/13 m long. If its loss resistance is 1.5Ω. Calculate Radiation resistance(Rr)

a) 3.5091

b) 4.672

c) 4.203

d) 4.960

Answer : b
18) A trace of the received electric (magnetic) field at a constant radius is called the
______________ .

a) Radiation field pattern

b) frequency field pattern

c) magnitude field pattern

d) amplitude field pattern

Answer : d

19) _______________ is a measure of the physical size of the antenna.

a) Physical aperture

b) Effective aperture

c) Loss aperture

d) Scattering Aperture

Answer : a

20) ______________ is the ratio of the reradiated/scattered power to the power density of the
incident wave

a) Physical aperture

b) Effective aperture

c) Loss aperture

d) Scattering Aperture

Answer : d
21) ______________ is defined as the fractional temperature at the input of antenna which
accounts for fractional noise at output

a) effective noise temperature

b) antenna noise temperature

c) receiver nose temperature

d) noise temperature

Answer: a

22) Link margin should ranges from ___ to ____

a) 3,20

b) 4,32

c)2,30

d) 4,30

Answer: a

23) Aperture efficiency is always _________ to unity.

a) >=

b) >

c) <=

d) <

Answer : c