FILAMER CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Final Exam in
TRANSMISSION MEDIA AND ANTENNA SYSTEMS

Name:______________________________________________ Date:_____________ Score:___________

MULTIPLE CHOICE: Box the letter of the best answer. NO ERASURE

1.The main cause of attenuation in 6. The index of refraction of the 12. An absorption loss caused by
an optical fiber is _____. cladding is _____ the index of valence electrons in the silica
a. Resistance and capacitance refraction of the core. material from which fibers are
b. Scattering and absorption a. Varies with c. Less than manufactured.
c. Wavelength b. Equal to d. Greater than a. Ultraviolet absorption
d. Ideal waveguide b. Ion resonance absorption
7. Band of light waves that are too c. Infrared dispersion
2.What is the spreading of energy in short to be seen by human eye. d. Modal dispersion
time, which is caused by differing a. Amber c. Ultraviolet
light wavelengths? b. Visible d. Infrared 13. A non-coherent light source for
a. Fresnel refraction optical communications system.
b. Chromatic dispersion 8. Which of the following has the a. LED c. APD
c. Modal refraction longest wavelength? b. PIN diode d. ILD
d. Absorption a. Fuschia c. Blue
b. Green d. Red 14. The dielectric material of an
3. Which of the following is not an optical fiber surrounding the core
application of laser? 9. Which of the following does not a. Cladding c. Armor
a. Planting contribute to a coupling mismatch b. Cover d. Shield
b. Communications between two optical fibers?
c. Surveying a. Sepatation resulting in light 15. Which of the following colors of
d. Medical applications scattering light rays has the shortest
b. Improper alignment wavelength?
4. Which of the following is not an c. Connecting ends not parallel a. Violet c. Blue
advantage of optical fiber? d. Modal dispersion b. Red d. Yellow
a. Low attenuation
b. Large bandwidth 10. A fiber core is glass with n=1.5. 16. The amount of power per unit
c. Immunity to lightning Calculate the reflectivity (in percent) area in optical fiber is called _____.
d. Cabling and splicing simplicity from air. a. Irradiance
a. 4% b. 16% c. 15% d. 8% b. Discerneance
5. The glass inside the fiber core c. Permeance
must have a(n) _____ index of 11. One of the advantages of fiber d. Reflectance
refraction than the index of optic which is referred to the
refraction of cladding surrounding volume of capacity of signals it can 17. The most common device used
the fiber. carry. as a light detector in fiber optic
a. Higher a. Weight communication system.
b. Lower b.) Physical size a. LED
c. Varying c. Security b. APDs
d. Equal d. Bandwidth c. Darlington phototransistor
d. PIN diode
 33. Distance travelled by a wave in
18. Type of fiber that has the highest 25. Who developed the Smith Chart? the time of one cycle.
modal dispersion. a. James N. Smith a. Crest c. Frequency
a. Graded index multimode b. Philip S. Chart b. Wavelength d. Hop
b. Graded index mode c. Philip H. Smith
c. Step-index multimode d. Gunn Chart 34. A transmission line capable of
d. Step-index single mode handling high-powered signal is
26. What is the impedance of most _____.
19. Which of the following is an waveguide? a. coax c. micro strip line
advantage of fiber-optic cable over a. 300 ohms c. 600 ohms b. waveguide d. stripline
conventional cable? b. 75 ohms d. 50 ohms
a. Interference immunity 35. What is the SWR for a 100-Ohms
b. Wider bandwidth 27. The outer conductor of a coaxial characteristic line and a 300-Ohms
c. Light weight transmission line is always grounded load?
d. All of the above at the a. 0.33 b. 3 c. 2 d. 4
a. output only
20. A 1-km long optical fiber in air is b. input only 36. The cut-off frequency in a
made of fiber core with an index of c. point of high SWR waveguide signifies
refraction of 1.52 and a cladding d. input and output a. longer wave will not propagate
with an index of refraction of 1.49, significantly
determine the acceptance angle. 28. transmission line consisting of b. the frequency at which no
a. 30° b. 35° c. 60° d. 17.5° two conductors that have equal transmission takes place
resistance per unit length. c. the dimension of the waveguide
21. It is made from semiconductor a. Open-wire line d. all of the above
material such as aluminum-gallium- b. Balanced line
arsenide or gallium-arsenide- c. Coaxial line 37. Referred to the dielectric
phosphide. d. Unbalanced line constant of a transmission line
a. APD material.
b. Light emitting diode 29. Which of the following a. Inductance and capacitance
c. Positive-intrinsic-negative determines the characteristics of a b. Velocity factor
d. Injection laser diode transmission line? c. Characteristic impedance
a. Physical dimensions d. Propagation velocity
22. The refractive index of glass is b. Length
around _____. c. Inductance 38. Referred to as a ferrite device
a. 1.33 c. 1.50 d. Capacitance that can be used in lieu of a duplexer
b. 0.50 d. 1 to isolate a microwave transmitter
30. What is the voltage reflection and receiver when both are
23. What wavelengths exhibit the coefficient for a 75- Ω line with a connected to the same antenna.
least loss for transmission in glass? terminating impedance of 50 Ω? a. Isolator c. Circulator
a. 12-15.5 microns a. -0.5 b. 0.5 c. -0.2 d. 0.2 b. Coupler d. Diode
b. 5-7 microns
c. 10-50 microns 31. What is the guide wavelength if 39. Gain of an isotropic antenna.
d. 1.3-1.5 microns m = 1 for a 6-cm x 3-cm waveguide a. -1 dB c. 2 dB
with a frequency of 12 GHz? b. 0 dB d. 1 dB
24. A transmission line has a a. 4.5 cm c. 2.55 cm
capacitance of 25pF/ft. and an b. 5 cm d. 2 cm 40. A type of antenna capable of
inductance of 0.15mH/ft. Determine transmitting (receiving) a TEM wave
the characteristic impedance of the 32. Best choice of transmission line polarized in any direction.
line. component to couple a coaxial line a. Horn antenna
a. 100 W c. 77.5 W to a parallel wire line. b. Discone
b. 75 W d. 50 W a. Balun c. Directional coupler c. Helical Antenna
b. Shorting d. Slotted line d. Circular Waveguide
41. The 3dB beamwidth of a 70%
efficient microwave dish antenna is b. 45.26m d. 15.26m and very popular for microwave
0.1o at 4GHz. Compute the gain in radio and satellite communications
dB. 49. The horizontal radiation pattern link.
a. 65.3 dBi c. 76.3 dBi of a dipole is a a. helical antenna
b. 70 dBi d. 43 dBi a. circle b. parabolic antenna
b. figure of eight c. hyperbolic antenna
42. The radio horizon for space c. clover leaf d. log-periodic antenna
waves is about ____ as far as the d. narrow beam
optical horizon. 56. The point on the antenna where
a. 4/3 c. 3/4 50. A special type of transmission the transmission line is connected is
b. 2/3 d. 3/2 line that consist of conducting called _______.
metallic tube through which high a. center feed c. feedpoint
43. The transmitting antenna has a frequency electromagnetic energy is b. end feed d. voltage feed
gain of 10 dB, and power output of propagated
6000 W. determine the effective a. medium c. stripline 57. The property of
radiated power. b. microstrip d. waveguide interchangeability for the
a. 30000W c. 50000W transmitting and receiving
b. 40000W d. 60000W 51. It is the ratio of the power operations is known as ______.
radiated by the antenna to the total a. efficiency c. reciprocity
44. What is the approximate length input power. b. accuracy d. polarization
of a half wave dipole antenna a. antenna efficiency
radiating at 6450 kHz? b. reflection coefficient 58. The magnetic field of an antenna
a. 72.5 ft c. 45.8ft c. standing wave ratio is perpendicular to the earth. The
b. 45.3ft d. 78.2 ft d. radiation resistance antenna’s polarization ______.
a. is vertical
45. A parabolic antenna used in the 52. Hertz antenna are b. is horizontal
satellite earth station has a beam predominantly used with c. is circular
width of 3 degree. If the antenna is frequencies above d. cannot be determined from the
operating at a frequency of 14 GHz, a. 3 MHz c. 5MHz information given
what is the minimum diameter of b. 4 MHz d. 2MHz
the antenna? 59. An antenna that transmits or
a. 0.5m c. 0.2m 53. Indicate which of the following receives equally well in all directions
b. 0.6m d. 0.3m reasons for using a counterpoise is said to be _____.
with antennas is false: a. omnidirectional
46. What is the maximum line of a. impossibility of a good ground b. bidirectional
sight distance between a paging connection c. unidirectional
antenna 250 ft. high and a pager b. protection of personnel working d. quasidirectional
receiver 3.5 ft of the ground? underneath
a. 26 miles c. 21 miles c. provision of an earth for the 60. It is a metallic conductor system
b. 25 miles d. 23 miles antenna capable of radiating and capturing
d. rockiness of the ground itself electromagnetic energy
47. At a certain time, the MUF for a. transmission lines
transmissions at an angle of 54. It is a linear array antenna b. antenna
incidence of 75 degree is 17 MHZ. consisting of a dipole and two or c. waveguides
what is the critical frequency? more parasitic elements: one d. load
a. 2.32 MHz c. 4.4 MHz reflector and one director.
b. 56.2 MHz d. 10.215 MHz a. broadside antenna
b. end-fire antenna
48. A 400 feet antenna is to be c. yagi-uda antenna
operated at 6200 kHz. What is the d. phased array antenna
wavelength at this frequency?
55. An antenna that provides
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
a. 48.39m c. 23.56m extremely high gain and directivity
- Thomas A. Edison