Radio Propagation Notes (From JAA practice Exams)

- Wavelength of NDB at frequency of 300kHz is 1000m (f = 300,000,000 / 300,000)

- Wavelength of radio transmitted on 121.95MHz is 2.46m
- MF Fading is most common at night due to the reception of both sky waves and ground waves.
- Microwave landing system (MLS) uses the centimetric wavelength
- Instrument Landing System (ILS) uses the metric wavelength
- ADF uses the hectometric or kilometric wavelength.
- Frequency at which sky waves should least affection reception is VLF
- The skip zone of HF transmission will increase when Higher frequency and higher position of the
reflecting ionosphere
- High Altitude Radio Altimeter uses decimetric wavelength
- By day the Ionosphere consists of 4 layers between 100 and 300km above the earth
- Wavelength of radio signal transmitted at frequency of 75MHz is 4m
- For Weather radar, the frequency 9375MHz in X Band is preferable to C Band because it better
detects clouds contour and range is greater with the same transmission power.
- Skin Effect causes the apparent resistance of a wire to increase as the frequency increases.
- The VOR uses the metric wavelength.
- Minimum airborne equipment required for operation of a VHF direction finder is VHF Transmitter-
receiver operating in the 118MHz to 136MHz range
- Skip distance is the range from the transmitter to the first sky wave
- Radio signal has a frequency of 225MHz and is transmitted through a typical di-pole aerial. For it to
work efficiently, the required length of the aerial is 2.3m
- What frequency band would a signal 40cm wavelength belong to? UHF
- In the propagation of MF waves, the phenomenon of FADING is particularly found at night, due to
the combination of the sky and ground waves.
- Aircraft transmits on HF from an altitude of 16,000ft to an ATC which has its receiver aerial situated
on top of the control tower at a height of 120ft. At what range could the aircraft captain expect to
make radio contact? 171.8NM
- The low altitude radio altimeter uses the centimetric wavelengths
- A Beat Frequency Oscillator is required only when a signal received which is an un-modulated
carrier wave
- DME uses the decimetric wavelength
- In Aeronautics, the frequency range in which the reflection against the ionosphere layers is used is
HF