This is the Multiple Choice Questions in Chapter 9: Antennas from the book Electronic Communication Systems by George Kennedy. If you are looking for a reviewer in Communications Engineering this will definitely help. I can assure you that this will be a great help in reviewing the book in preparation for your Board Exam. Make sure to familiarize each and every questions to increase the chance of passing the ECE Board Exam.
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Choose the letter of the best answer in each questions.
1. An ungrounded antenna near the ground
- a. acts as a single antenna of twice the height
- b. is unlikely to need a ground screen
- c. acts as an antenna array
- d. must be horizontally polarized
2. One of the following consists of nonresonant antennas:
- a. The rhombic antenna
- b. The folded dipole
- c. The end-fire array
- d. The broadside array
3. One of the following is very useful as a multiband HF receiving antenna. This is the:
- a. conical horn
- b. folded dipole
- c. log periodic
- d. square loop
4. Which of the following antennas is best excited from a waveguide?
- a. Biconical
- b. Horn
- c. Helical
- d. Discone
5. Indicate which of the following reasons for using a counterpoise with antenna is false:
- a. Impossibility of a good ground connection
- b. Protection of personnel working underground
- c. Provision of an earth for the antenna
- d. Rockiness of the ground
6. One of the following is nota reason for the use of an antenna coupler:
- a. To make the antenna look resistive
- b. To provide the output amplifier with the correct load impedance
- c. To discriminate against harmonics
- d. To prevent reradiation of the local oscillator
7. Indicate the antenna that is not wideband L:
- a. Discone
- b. Folded Dipole
- c. Helical
- d. Marconi
8. Indicate which one of the following reasons for the use of a ground screen with antennas is false:
- a. Impossibility of a good ground connection
- b. Provision of an earth for the antenna
- c. Protection of personnel working underneath
- d. Improvement of the radiation pattern of the antenna
9. Which one of the following terms does not apply to the Yagi-Uda array?
- a. Good bandwidth
- b. Parasitic elements
- c. Folded dipole
- d. High gain
10. An antenna that is currently polarized us the
- a. helical
- b. small circular loop
- c. parabolic reflector
- d. Yagi-Uda
11. The standard reference antenna for the directive gain is the
- a. infinitesimal dipole
- b. isotropic antenna
- c. elementary doublet
- d. half-wave dipole
12. Top loading is sometimes used with an antenna in order to increase its
- a. effective height
- b. bandwidth
- c. beamwidth
- d. input capacitance
13. Cassegrain feed is used with a parabolic reflector to
- a. increase the gain of the system
- b. increase the beamwidth of the system
- c. reduce the size of the main reflector
- d. allow the feed to be placed at a convenient point
14. Zoning is used with a dielectric antenna in order to
- a. reduce the bulk of the lense
- b. increase the bandwidth of the lens
- c. increase pin-point focusing
- d. correct the curvature of the wavefront from a horn that is too short
15. A helical antenna is used for satellite tracking because of its
- a. circular polarization
- b. maneuverability
- c. broad bandwidth
- d. good front-to-back ratio
16. The discone antenna is
- a. useful direction-finding antenna
- b. used as a radar receiving antenna
- c. circularly polarized like other circular antennas
- d. useful as UHF receiving antennas
17. One of the following is not an omnidirectional antenna:
- a. Half-wave dipole
- b. Log-periodic
- c. Discone
- d. Marconi
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