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Quiz Questions Antennas
Quiz Questions Antennas
Quiz Questions Antennas
4-1. Radio energy is transmitted through 4-6. An antenna that can be mounted to
which of the following mediums? radiate rf energy either vertically or
horizontally is classified as which of the
1. Rock following types?
2. Soil
3. Water 1. Hertz
4. Space 2. Marconi
3. Quarter-wave
4-2. Energy is transmitted from a transmitter 4. Both 2 and 3 above
into space using which of the following
devices? 4-7. A complete antenna system consists of
which of the following components?
1. A receiver
2. A delay line 1. A feeder, a coupling device, and a
3. A receiving antenna transmitter
4. A transmitting antenna 2. A feeder line, a coupling device, and
an antenna
4-3. Transmitted rf energy takes what form as 3. An antenna, a transmission line, and a
it is sent into space? receiver
4. An impedance-matching device, a
1. A magnetic field only feeder, and a transmission line
2. An electric field only
3. An electromagnetic field 4-8. What component in an antenna system
4. A static dielectric field transfers energy from the transmitter to
the antenna?
4-4. The dimensions of a transmitting antenna
are determined by which of the following 1. A feeder
factors? 2. A delay line
3. A choke joint
1. Transmitted power 4. A rotating joint
2. Transmitted frequency
3. Distance to the receiver 4-9. The type, size, and shape of an antenna
4. Antenna height above the ground are determined by which of the following
factors?
4-5. A device used to radiate or receive
electromagnetic wave energy is referred 1. Power output of the transmitter
to as a/an 2. Transmitter frequency
3. Direction to the receiver
1. feeder 4. Each of the above
2. antenna
3. transmitter
4. coupling device
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4-10. Moving electric and magnetic fields in 4-15. The antenna property that allows the
space have what (a) phase and same antenna to both transmit and
(b) angular relationships? receive energy is
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4-20. For ground-wave transmissions, what 4-25. A vertically mounted transmission line is
type of polarization is required? LEAST affected by which of the
following antenna radiation patterns?
1. Vertical
2. Spherical 1. Vertically polarized
3. Elliptical 2. Spherically polarized
4. Horizontal 3. Horizontally polarized
4. Elliptically polarized
4-21. For high-frequency operation, which of
the following antenna polarization 4-26. An antenna with which of the following
patterns is preferred? radiation resistance values will exhibit
reduced efficiency?
1. Vertically polarized
2. Spherically polarized 1. 39 ohms
3. Elliptically polarized 2. 82 ohms
4. Horizontally polarized 3. 107 ohms
4. 150 ohms
4-22. Omnidirectional transmission is obtained
from which of the following antennas? 4-27. An isotropic radiator radiates energy in
which of the following patterns?
1. Elliptically polarized
2. Horizontal half-wave 1. Vertical
3. Vertical half-wave 2. Bi-directional
4. Each of the above 3. Unidirectional
4. Omnidirectional
4-23. With an antenna height of 40 feet and a
transmitter frequency of 90 megahertz, 4-28. An ordinary flashlight is an example of
which of the following antenna radiation what type of radiator?
patterns is best for transmitting over
bodies of water? 1. Isotropic
2. Polarized
1. Vertically polarized 3. Anisotropic
2. Spherically polarized 4. Stroboscopic
3. Elliptically polarized
4. Horizontally polarized
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4-24. To select a desired signal and INTENTIONALLY.
discriminate against interfering signals
from strong vhf and uhf broadcast
transmissions, which of the following
actions should you take?
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4-30. Compared with the rectangular-
coordinate graph, the polar-coordinate
graph has the advantage of showing
which of the following antenna
characteristics?
1. Polarization
2. Radiation pattern
3. Phase relationship
4. Gain versus directivity
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4-35. Which of the following radiation patterns 4-40. A series of conductors arranged in a
is/are exhibited by a simple vertical radial pattern and buried in the ground
doublet antenna? beneath the antenna is referred to as a
4-36. A method of feeding energy to a half- 4-41. A folded dipole can be used instead of a
wave antenna is to connect one end simple, center-fed dipole for which of the
through a capacitor to the output stage. following purposes?
What is this method of feeding called?
1. Matching voltage
1. End feed 2. Matching impedance
2. Voltage feed 3. Increasing directivity
3. Both 1 and 2 above 4. Decreasing directivity
4. Current feed
4-42. An antenna arrangement that has
4-37. An antenna supplied by the center-feed elements aligned in a straight line is
method is fed at what point? referred to as what type array?
4-38. The basic Marconi antenna has which of 4-43. To have current in two adjoining
the following characteristics? collinear half-wave elements in proper
phase, they must be connected by which
1. One-quarter wavelength and of the following stubs?
ungrounded
2. One-half wavelength and grounded at 1. A shorted half-wave stub
one end 2. An open quarter-wave stub
3. One-half wavelength and insulated 3. A shorted eighth-wave stub
from ground 4. A shorted quarter-wave stub
4. One-quarter wavelength and
grounded at one end 4-44. To select a desired signal and
discriminate against interfering signals,
4-39. The Marconi antenna behaves as a dipole the receiving antenna should have which
for which of the following reasons? of the following characteristics?
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4-45. Adding more elements to a collinear 4-50. Optimum gain is obtained from a
antenna array produces which of the broadside array when the spacing of its
following effects? elements is which of the following
distances?
1. Increased gain
2. Decreased gain 1. One-half wavelength
3. Decreased directivity 2. One-quarter wavelength
4. Mismatched impedances 3. Greater than one-half wavelength
4. Slightly less than one-quarter
4-46. What is the maximum number of
elements ordinarily used in a collinear 4-51. An end-fire array physically resembles
array? the collinear array except that it is more
compact. What disadvantage does the
1. One endfire array possess?
2. Two
3. Three 1. It has lower gain
4. Four 2. It has low radiation resistance
3. It has loose coupling
4-47. Constructing a collinear array with 4. Each of the above
elements longer than 1/2 wavelength has
which of the following effects on antenna 4-52. What is the range of electrical spacing
characteristics? between the elements of an end-fire
array?
1. Increased gain
2. Decreased gain 1. 3/4 to 1 wavelength
3. Increased frequency range 2. 1/2 to 3/4 wavelength
4. Decreased frequency range 3. 1/4 to 1/2 wavelength
4. 1/8 to 1/4 wavelength
4-48. In a two-element collinear array,
maximum gain is obtained when the 4-53. The end-fire array produces what type of
center-to-center spacing between the lobes, if any, along the axis of the array?
ends of the elements is approximately
what electrical distance? 1. Minor lobes
2. Major lobes
1. Wavelength 3. None
2. 0.15 wavelength
3. 0.5 wavelength 4-54. Assuming that the elements are correctly
4. 0.75 wavelength spaced, the directivity of an end-fire
array may be increased by which of the
4-49. Compared with collinear arrays, following actions?
broadside arrays have which of the
following advantages? 1. Increasing the frequency
2. Decreasing the frequency
1. Sharper tuning 3. Decreasing the number of elements
2. Broader bandwidth 4. Increasing the number of elements
3. Broader frequency response
4. Less coupling between dipole
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4-55. A unidirectional pattern can be obtained 4-60. The Yagi antenna is an example of what
from an end-fire array by using what type of antenna array?
phase relationship between the energy
fed to adjacent elements? 1. Driven
2. End-fire
1. 0º 3. Multielement parasitic
2. 45º 4. Single-element parasitic
3. 90º
4. 180º 4-61. The addition of parasitic elements to the
Yagi antenna has which of the following
4-56. Energy is fed to a parasitic element using effects on antenna characteristics?
what method?
1. Increased gain
1. Direct coupling 2. Narrower beam width
2. Inductive coupling 3. Narrower frequency response
3. Capacitive coupling 4. Each of the above
4. Transmission-line coupling
4-62. An antenna which is designed especially
4-57. The directivity pattern resulting from the for vertically-polarized ground waves at
action of parasitic elements depends on low frequencies is the
which of the following element
characteristics? 1. Yagi antenna
2. Marconi antenna
1. Length of the element 3. Beverage antenna
2. Diameter of the element 4. V antenna
3. Spacing between parasitic and driven
elements 4-63. What is the phase relationship of the
4. Each of the above signals that feed the V antenna?
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4-66. The principal disadvantage of the 4-71. If a corner-reflector antenna is
rhombic antenna is its horizontally polarized, its radiation
pattern will take on what shape?
1. poor directivity
2. large antenna site 1. A narrow beam in the horizontal
3. low antenna voltage plane
4. high-frequency inefficiency 2. A narrow beam in the vertical plane
3. A beam similar to a half-wave dipole
4-67. The unidirectional radiation pattern of in the horizontal plane
the rhombic antenna is caused by which 4. A beam similar to a half-wave dipole
of the following antenna characteristics? with a reflector in the vertical plane
4-68. Horizontal half-wave antennas mounted 1. A safety harness has been issued to
at right angles to each other in the same you
horizontal plane make up which of the 2. All transmitters are secured and
following antennas? tagged
3. A working aloft "chit" has been filled
1. Rhombic out and signed by proper authority
2. Flat-top 4. Each of the above
3. Turnstile
4. Ground-plane
1. Decreasing power
2. Increasing frequency
3. Adding a ground plane
4. Rotating the antenna to a horizontal
plane
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