Antennas

ECE Board Exam November 1999

Which of the following is taken as the standard reference antenna for directive gain?
Isotropic

ECE Board Exam April 1998

Best description of a collinear and broadside antenna radiation pattern
Bidirectional

ECE Board Exam November 1997

Theoretical gain of a Herztian dipole
1.76 dB

ECE Board Exam March 1996 it is a measure of the microwave power radiated from an antenna as
a function of angular direction from the antenna axis
Beamwidth

ECE Board Exam November 2000

What would you employ or use to determine the performance of an aerial antenna, such as
determination of propagation strength and direction?
Radiation pattern

ECE Board Exam April 2000

Find the approximate width of a pyramidal horn antenna that will operate at 10,000 MHz intended to
have a beamwidth of 10 degrees.

ECE Board Exam April 1998

What is the driven element of an antenna?
The element fed by the transmission line

ECE Board Exam November 1997

The reflector and director of an antenna array are considered as
Parasitic elements

ECE Board Exam March 1996

What is the gain of four identically polarized antennas stacked one above the other and fed in
phase?
6 dB over the gain of one antenna

ECE Board Exam April 1998

What do you mean by the outward flow of an energy from any source in the form of radio waves.
Radiation

ECE Board Exam November 1997

The product of the power supplied to the antenna and its gain relative to a half-wave dipole in a
given direction.
ERP

ECE Board Exam March 1996

Gain of an isotropic antenna
0 dB

ECE Board Exam April 1997

The frequency of operation of a dipole antenna cut to length of 3.4 m.

ECE Board Exam November 2000

What is the term for a numerical ratio which relates the performance of one antenna to that of
another real or theoretical antenna?
Antenna gain

ECE Board Exam April 2000

Which of the following microwave antenna is normally used when obtaining an omni-directional
radiation requirement?
Bicone
ECE Board Exam April 1998
Antenna which is not properly terminated.
Resonant

ECE Board Exam November 1997

Width measured in degrees of a major lobe between ends of the lobe at which the relative power is
one half (-3dB) its value from the peak of the lobe.
Beamwidth

ECE Board Exam April 1998

At the ends of a half-wave antenna, what values of current and voltage exist compared to the
remainder of the antenna?
Maximum voltage and minimum current

ECE Board Exam November 1997

Harmonic suppressor connected to an antenna.
Low pass filter

ECE Board Exam November 1997

Radio wave concentration in the direction of the signal emitted by a directional antenna
Major lobe radiation

ECE Board Exam November 2000

What is the approximate length of a half wave dipole antenna radiating at 6450 kHz?

ECE Board Exam April 2000

How does the length of the director element of a parasitic element beam antenna compare with that
of the driven element?
It is about 5% shorter

ECE Board Exam April 1998

Refers to a type of beam antenna which uses two or more straight elements arranged in line with
each other?
Yagi antenna

ECE Board Exam November 2000

One of the following can be best attained by a trap antenna in radio communication
Multi frequency band operation