MCQs in Microwave Communications Part X

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Following is the list of multiple choice questions in this brand new series:

Microwave Communications MCQs

PART 1: MCQs from Number 1 – 50                        Answer key: PART I

PART 2: MCQs from Number 51 – 100                   Answer key: PART II

PART 3: MCQs from Number 101 – 150                 Answer key: PART III

PART 4: MCQs from Number 151 – 200                 Answer key: PART IV

PART 5: MCQs from Number 201 – 250                 Answer key: PART V

PART 6: MCQs from Number 251 – 300                 Answer key: PART VI

PART 7: MCQs from Number 301 – 350                 Answer key: PART VII

PART 8: MCQs from Number 351 – 400                 Answer key: PART VIII

PART 9: MCQs from Number 401 – 450                 Answer key: PART IX

PART 10: MCQs from Number 451 – 500                 Answer key: PART X

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451. Indicate which of the following frequencies cannot be used for reliable beyond-the-horizon terrestrial communications without repeaters:

• a. 20 kHz
• b. 15 MHz
• c. 900 MHz
• d. 12 GHz

452. A ship-to-ship communications system is plagued by fading. The best solution seems to be the use of

• a. A more directional antenna
• b. A broadband antenna
• c. Frequency diversity
• d. Space diversity

453. A range of microwave frequencies more easily passed by the atmosphere than are the others is called a

• a. Window
• b. Critical frequency
• c. Gyro frequency range
• d. Resonance in the atmosphere

454. Frequencies in the UHF range propagate by means of

• a. Ground waves
• b. Sky waves
• c. Surface waves
• d. Space waves

455. Tropospheric scatter is used with frequencies in the following range:

• a. HF
• b. VHF
• c. UHF
• d. VLF

456. When microwave signals follow the curvature of the earth, this is known as

• a. The Faraday effect
• b. Ducting
• c. Tropospheric scatter
• d. Iosnospheric reflection

457. Helical antennas are often used for satellite tracking at VHF because of

• a. Troposcatter
• b. Superrefraction
• c. Ionospheric refraction
• d. The Faraday effect

458. _______________ consists basically of a thin film strip in intimate contact with one side of a flat dielectric substrate, with a similar thin-film ground plane conductor on the other side of the substrate.

• a. Strip line
• b. Lecher wire
• c. Microstrip
• d. Stub

459. Waveguide is a

• a. Device used to determine the wavelength of a signal
• b. Hollow metal tube used for transmission of microwave energy
• c. Plastic tubular transmission line for high RF network
• d. Braided wire used for transmission of HF

460. Transmission lines which can convey electromagnetic waves only in higher order modes are usually called

• a. Coaxial cable
• b. Twisted pair
• c. Power lines
• d. Waveguides

461. In order to reduce cross-sectional dimensions, the waveguide to use is

• a. Circular
• b. Ridge
• c. Rectangular
• d. Elliptical

462. A signal propagated in a waveguide has a full wave of electric intensity change between the two farther walls, and no component of the electric field in the direction of propagation. The mode is

• a. TE1,1
• b. TE1,0
• c. TM2,2
• d. TE2,0

463. When a particular mode is excited in a waveguide, there appears an extra electric component, in the direction of propagation. The resulting mode is

• a. Transverse electric
• b. Transverse magnetic
• c. Longitudinal
• d. Transverse electromagnetic

464. The wavelength of a wave in a waveguide

• a. Is greater than in free space
• b. Depends on waveguide dimensions and free space wavelength
• c. Is inversely proportional to the phase velocity
• d. Is directly proportional to the group velocity

465. When electromagnetic waves are propagated in a waveguide, they

• a. Travel along the broader walls of the guide
• b. Are reflected from walls but not travel along them
• c. Travel through the dielectric without touching the walls
• d. Travel along the 4 walls of the waveguides

466. When microwave signals follow the curvature of the earth, this is known as

• a. Faraday Effect
• b. Deducting
• c. Tropospheric Scatter
• d. Ionospheric Reflection

467. A waveguide mode in which there is no component of electric field in the direction of propagation given in the British European standards.

• a. H-mode
• b. E-mode
• c. TE mode
• d. M-mode

468. The extra strength needed in order to assure that enough signal reaches the receiving antenna and must be made available to compensate for fades; computed as the difference between the received signal strength and the threshold level

• a. Fade Margin
• b. Threshold Level
• c. Noise Figure
• d. RSL

469. The use of redundant system to reduce the effects of multipath fading is

• a. Combining
• b. Modulation
• c. Multiplexing
• d. Diversity

470. A profile graph of the microwave energy path

• a. Shows the cross section of the earth’s surface
• b. Determines LOS or site technical feasibility
• c. Determines the actual clearance, antenna heights and system reliability
• d. All of the preceding

471. In locating microwave relay stations, the systems designer must consider

• a. Terrain obstructions and reflection points
• b. Site security and navigational hazards
• c. Availability of power, water source and accessible roads
• d. All of the above

472. A microwave path over which radio waves barely touches the obstruction is called

• a. Line of Sight
• b. Obstructed Path
• c. Grazing Path
• d. Crooked Path

473. What is the function of regenerative repeater?

• a. To eliminate bias distortion
• b. To help in the loading of the telegraphs lines
• c. To reduce required signal levels
• d. To reshape the pulses after they have become distorted

474. A situation when there is no change in attenuation or “no gain, no loss” occurs when ________ % of the first Fresnel radius clears a path obstruction in microwave systems.

• a. 45%
• b. 60%
• c. 75%
• d. 85%

475. ____________ are concentric circular zones about a direct path of a microwave signal called Huygen’s radiation center, forming an imaginary solid called an ellipsoid __________.

• a. Temperature zone
• b. Skip zone
• c. Fresnel zone
• d. Fraunhoffer zone

476. Waveguides are used mainly for microwave transmission because

• a. They depend on straight line propagation
• b. Losses are heavy at lower frequencies
• c. They are bulky at lower frequencies
• d. No generator is powerful enough to excite them

477. A waveguide assembly that lets the radar transmitter and receiver share an antenna is called

• a. Translator
• b. Diplexer
• c. Flip-flop
• d. duplexer

478. ________________ is a graph wherein the terrain in which the microwave beam should traverse.

• a. Topograph
• b. Radio path profile
• c. Fresnel graph
• d. Net path graph

479. The Fresnel zone is the circular zone about the _______ path.

• a. Reflected
• b. Direct
• c. Diffracted
• d. Refracted

480. The radius in the circular zone is in the first Fresnel zone when the reflected path is _______ longer than the direct path.

• a. λ/2
• b. λ
• c. λ/4
• d. λ/8

481. At __________ of the first Fresnel zone is a condition where there is no gain and no loss.

• a. 0.5
• b. 0.6
• c. 0.7
• d. 0.8

482. The weakest signal the receiver could accept to be considered satisfactory.

• a. Threshold
• b. Fade margin
• c. RSL
• d. NPL

483. The frequency band from 8 to 12 GHz is known as the band.

• a. C
• b. Ku
• c. X
• d. Ka

484. The difference between the Received Signal Level and the FM Improvement Threshold

• a. System Gain
• b. Noise Threshold
• c. Fade Margin
• d. Reliability

485. A Fade Margin of 28 dB has a reliability of

• a. 99%
• b. 99.9%
• c. 99.99%
• d. 99.999%

486. Topographical maps are used for microwave communications systems design because _________ are shown, thereby elevations are known.

• a. Latitudes
• b. Longitudes
• c. Contour lines
• d. Scales

487. The dominant mode in a rectangular waveguide.

• a. TEM
• b. TE1,1
• c. TE1,0
• d. TM1,1

488. The velocity of a resultant wave as it travels through the waveguide.

• a. Speed of light
• b. Group velocity
• c. Phase velocity
• d. Incident velocity

489. The principal mode for a circular waveguide.

• a. TE1,0
• b. TM2,0
• c. TE1,1
• d. TEM

490. A type of waveguide that reduces the cutoff wavelength, increases bandwidth and allows for a variation of the characteristics impedance.

• a. Ridge
• b. Rectangular
• c. Tee
• d. Twisted

491. The subscript which indicates the number of λ/2’ s along the waveguide height.

• a. m
• b. n
• c. a
• d. b

492. The international equivalent of the TE mode

• a. H
• b. E
• c. Z
• d. TEM

493. The smallest free space wavelength that is just unable to propagate in the waveguide under given conditions.

• a. Guide
• b. Phase
• c. Cut-off
• d. Group

494. The characteristic wave impedance of a waveguide in the TE mode is _______ that of the TM mode.

• a. Equal to
• b. Higher than
• c. Lower than
• d. NOTA

495. The following are methods of exciting waveguides except

• a. Slot coupling
• b. Antennas
• c. Flanges
• d. Direct coupling

496. Higher order mode-waveguides are not used in practice because they have ______ cut-off frequencies.

• a. Low
• b. High
• c. Indeterminate
• d. Fixed

497. Indicate which of the following cannot be followed by the word “waveguide”

• a. Elliptical
• b. Flexible
• c. Coaxial
• d. Ridged

498. A piston attenuator is a

• a. Vane attenuator
• b. Waveguide below cut-off
• c. Mode filter
• d. Flap attenuator

499. Which of the following waveguide tuning components is not easily adjustable?

• a. Screw
• b. Stub
• c. Iris
• d. Plunger

500. Which of the following is not a waveguide termination component?

• a. Tapered pyramid
• b. Post
• c. Tapered resistance card
• d. Stepped resistance card

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