Question Bank 3 - ANTENNA

1. Two half wave dipole antenna are positioned for optimum transmission and
reception. Calculate the open circuit voltage induced in one /2 dipole when 20W
of power at 250 MHz is radiated from another /2 dipole 100km away.

2. For an antenna in a form of linear conductor or an array of conductors,

calculate the effective length at 3MHz.

3. To minimize interference, a 500 MHz dish needs to have a 1 degree beam

width. What is the corresponding gain in dB?

4. A dish designed for operation at 150 MHz is operated at twice that frequency.
By what factor do gain change?
5. What is the power gain in dB of a uniformly illuminated parabolic reflector
whose half power beam width is 3 degrees?

6. In aperture antennas for microwave communications, what is the aperture

number if the angular aperture is 55?

7. What is the effective area of the Hertzinian dipole antenna for unity efficiency
at 3MHz?

8. For an antenna in a form of a linear conductor, what is the effective length at

10.5MHz?

9. A certain antenna has a gain of 7 dB with respect to an isotropic radiator. What

is the effective area if it operates at 200MHz?
10. Determine the gain of an antenna with respect to a dipole if its gain with
respect to isotropic is 50 dBi.

11. If an antenna has a length of 0.125 then what is the radiation resistance?

12. What is the horizontal beam width of a pyramidal horn antenna if its width is
one wavelength?

13. At 2MHz, what is he effective area of the Hertzinian dipole for unity
efficiency?

14. A helical antenna has a following dimensions pitch is 1/3 wavelength;

diameter is wavelength and turns is 27. What is the gain in dB? (Past ECE Board
Problem)
15. What is the phase separation of two antennas 3/8 wavelengths apart? (Past
ECE Board Problem)

16. A 400 feet antenna is to be operated at 6,200 kHz. What is the wavelength at
this frequency? (Past ECE Board Problem)

17. A microwave communications uses plane reflector as passive repeaters. The

diameter of the parabolic antenna is 18 feet while the effective area is 310ft^2.
Determine the reflector coupling factor. (Past ECE Board Problem)

18. A TV/RO installation for use with a C - band satellite ( download frequency at 4
GHz) has a diameter of about 3.5 meters and an efficiency of 60%. Calculate the
beam width. (Past ECE Board Problem)
19. A 500 kHz antenna radiates 500W of power. The same antenna produces a
field strength equal to 1.5mV/m, if the power delivered by the antenna is
increased by 1kW,What should be the expected field intensity? (Past ECE Board
Problem)

20. What is the effective radiated power (ERP) of a repeater with 250W
transmitting power output, 3dB feed line loss, 4dB duplexer loss, 5 dB circulator
loss and feed line antenna gain of 20dB? (Past ECE Board Problem)

21. What is the length in feet of an antenna wire for 5MHz if the antenna is 3.5
wave in length? (Past ECE Board Problem)
22. If the antenna current increases current increases 3.4 times, how much does
the radiated power increases? (Past ECE Board Problem)

23. Determine the effective radiated power of an FM transmitter if the input

power to the final amplifier is 370 W with 60% efficiency if the field gain of the
antenna is 1.3 assuming 100% transmission line efficiency? (Past ECE Board
Problem)

24. The transmitting antenna has a gain of 10dB and power output of 6000W.
Determine the effective radiated power. (Past ECE Board Problem)

25. What is the approximate length of a half wave dipole antenna radiating at
6450 kHz? (Past ECE Board Problem)
26. Determine the approximate length of a sample whip quarter wave antenna at
UHF frequency of 450.25 MHz (Past ECE Board Problem)

27. What is the length of a simple quarter wave antenna using a VHF frequency of
150.55 MHz? (Past ECE Board Problem)

28. Find the approximate width of a pyramidal horn antenna that will operate at
10,000 MHz intended to have a beam width of 10 degrees. (Past ECE Board
Problem)
29. Determine the gain of a 6ft parabolic dish antenna at 1800 MHz (Past ECE
Board Problem)

30. A dipole antenna requires to be feed with 20kW of power to produce a given
signal strength to a particular distant point. If the addition of a reflector makes
the same field strength available with an input power of 11kW. What is the gain in
dB obtained by the use of the reflector? (Gain referred to the particular dipole)
(Past ECE Board Problem)

31. What is the gain, in dB of a helical antenna with diameter of /3, 10 turns at
pitch of /4, used at 100MHz? (Past ECE Board Problem)
32. The frequency of operation of a dipole antenna cut to length of 3.4 m. (Past
ECE Board Problem)

33. What is the effective radiated power (ERP) of a repeater with 200W
transmitting power output, 2 dB feed line loss, 2 dB duplexer loss, 3dB circulation
loss and feed line antenna gain of 10dB? (Past ECE Board Problem)

34. Determine the dB gain of a receiving antenna which delivers a microvolt

signal to transmission line over that of an antenna that delivers a 2 microvolt
signal under identical circumstances. (Past ECE Board Problem)
35. The actual length of the Marconi antenna used in AM transmitter is 34m.
What is the operating frequency of the transmitter, if the velocity factor is 0.9?

36. What is the ohmic resistance of the antenna, if the efficiency of the antenna is
0.96 and the radiation resistance is 72

37. What is the gain of a half wave dipole antenna if the antenna has an efficiency
of 92%?

38. The output power of an FM transmitter is 25W. If the gain of the antenna
referred to isotropic is 50, what is the ERP of the antenna?
39. A satellite tracking device uses a helical antenna that is operating at 1.2GHz. If
the optimum diameter of the antenna is 8cm and 10 turns, what is the gain of the
antenna?

40. A helical shape antenna with the eight turns is used to track a satellite that is
operating at 1.2GHz. If spacing for the antenna is 10 cm, what is the beam width
of the antenna?

41. A certain helical antenna with twelve turns is used to operate at a frequency
of 1.2GHz. What is the total length of the antenna?

42. An earth satellite station needed an antenna that can amplify 2500 times
bigger than the input signal. If the engineers with parabolic reflector, and
operates at 3.4 GHz, what is the diameter?
43. Calculate the operating frequency of a half wave dipole if the actual length is
3.5 meter.

44. Calculate the actual length of a half wave dipole operating at a frequency of
67.25 MHz.

45. An antenna with a radiation resistance of 50 and a loss resistance of 3,

receives a 150 watts of power from a transmitter. How much power is radiated
into space?
46. An antenna with a radiation resistance of 75 and a loss resistance of 5,
receives a 150 watts of power from a transmitter. How much power is wasted?

47. What is the efficiency of the antenna if the radiation resistance is 72 and the
loss resistance is 2?

48. A half wave dipole with a gain of 2.14dBi is fed by means of lossless, matched
line, by a 25 watts transmitters. What is electric field strength of the signal
measured 15km from the antenna in free space in the direction of maximum
radiation?

49. A transmitter supplied 125 watts of power to an antenna with an efficiency of

95%. What is the power density measured at a distance of 30 km from the
antenna in the direction of maximum radiation? Assume the transmission line is
lossless and perfectly matched.
50. A dipole antenna is designed to have 94% efficiency. Determine the EIRP of
this antenna if it is fed by a 50 watts transmitter.

51. Determine the actual length of a Marconi antenna operating at a frequency of

1625 kHz.

52. A parabolic antenna used in the satellite earth station has beam width of 3. If
the antenna is operating at a frequency of 14GHz, what is the minimum diameter
of the antenna?
53. A parabolic antenna used in satellite earth station has a beam width of 3.
What is the gain of the antenna if the antenna efficiency is 85%?

54. A parabolic antenna used in the satellite earth station has beam width of 3.
Calculate the effective area of a 3 m dish with an illumination efficiency of 0.7 at
3GHz.

55. The signal field strength 10km from the Yagi antenna in the optimum direction
is 12mV/m, and 180 degrees from the optimum direction at the same distance
the field strength is reduced to 2mV/m. What is the front to back ratio of the
antenna?

56. A Yagi antenna must be fed with 5kw of power to produce the same field
strength at a given point as that of a half wave dipole antenna fed with 10kW of
power. Determine the gain of the Yagi antenna relative to isotropic.
57. Two antenna are fed with equal power. If the power density measured of the
antenna under test is 2W/m^2 and 8W/m^2 for the standard antenna. What is
the gain of the antenna to dipole if the gain of the standard antenna is 30 dBi?

58. A Yagi antenna with front to back ratio of 10 dB radiates power of 10 watts in
the opposite direction. Determine the power output of the transmitter, if the gain
of the antenna is 10 dBi (assume lossless transmission line and perfectly matched)

59. The power radiated on a dipole is 2W. If the input power to the antenna is
2.6W and the current fed is 2A, calculate the ohmic resistance of the dipole.
60. The power supplied to the antenna is 5kW. If the efficiency of the dipole is
0.7, determine the power loss of the antenna.

61. A half wave dipole is designed to intercept maximum power at 300 MHz.
Calculate the effective aperture of a half wave dipole.

62. A vertical antenna is located in field strength of 7mV/m. If the effective length
of the antenna is 1m. Calculate the voltage induced into the antenna.
63. An aerial that is mounted vertically is operating at 3MHz is 100 m high
(assume that the ground is perfect conductor). It carries a current that varies
linearly from a maximum of 10A at the base to 0A to the top. Determine the
effective height of the aerial.

64. A half wave dipole requires to be fed with 10kW of power to produce 2mV/m
signal strength 5km from the antenna. The field strength is measured again and
the result is the same, but this time a reflector is added to the antenna and the
input power is only 3kW. What is the gain of the antenna referred to isotropic
with the additional reflector?
65. An antenna with parabolic dish reflector has a beam width of 2and a again of
30 dBi. Calculate the power density at a range of 5km at an angle of 1 to the
direction of maximum radiation if the power radiated is 1.6W.

66. A half wave dipole antenna is used to operate at 54MHz. Considering end
effect, what is the effective area of the antenna?

67. A helical antenna is used to track satellites in space. If the antenna consists of
15 turns, spacing 15 cm and diameter of 19.1m, what is the operating frequency
of the antenna to transmit the signal efficiently?
68. A satellite earth station uses an antenna with parabolic reflector that has a
gain of 30dBi at 3.2GHz. What is its gain if the operating frequency is changed to
21.5 GHz, assuming the other parameters remain the same?