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What are three types of antenna types?
 

Important Questions on Communication System

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An antenna uses electromagnetic waves of frequency 5 MHz. For proper working, the size of the antenna should be
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A TV tower is 120 m high, How much more height is to be added to it if its cover range is ti become double?

 

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The radius of the Earth is 6400 km. If the height of an antenna is 500 m, then its range is
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What is an antenna? Find the length of a dipole antenna for a carrier wave of frequency 3×108Hz.
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The minimum length of the dipole antenna for a carrier wave frequency of 200MHz is nearly
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For an efficient transmission of 150 MHz, the minimum required length of antenna should bw_________.
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A 100 m long antenna is mounted on a 500 m tall building. The complex can become a transmission tower for waves with λ
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A TV transmission tower antenna is at a height of 20 m. How much service area can it cover if the receiving antenna is (i) at ground level, (ii) at a height of 25 m? Calculate the percentage increase in area covered in case (ii) relative to case (i).
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In an optical communication system operating at 1200 nm, only 2% of the source frequency is available for TV transmission having a bandwidth of 5 MHz. The number of TV channels that can be transmitted is
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How does the effective power radiated by an antenna vary with wavelength?
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If a carrier wave of 1000 kHz is used to carry the signal, the length of transmitting antenna will be equal to -
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If the whole earth is to be connected by LOS communication using space waves (no restriction of antenna size or tower height), what is the minimum number of antennas required? Calculate the tower height of these antennas in terms of the earth's radius?
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The cladding material of optical fibre has refractive index
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A 50 MHz sky wave takes 4.04 ms to reach a receiver via re-transmission from a satellite 600 km above earth’s surface. Assuming re-transmission time by satellite negligible, find the distance between source and receiver. If communication between the two was to be done by Line of Sight (LOS) method, what should the size and placement of receiving and transmitting antenna be?
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The sound waves after being converted into electrical waves are not transmitted as such because:

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In public broadcasting system the message signal from microphone to speaker is transmitted through pair of copper cables here in this case the communication channel is:

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A particular cable has a capacitance of 40 pF/ft and a characteristic impedance of 70 Ω :

i. What is the inductance per foot of this cable?

ii. Determine the impedance of an infinitely long section of such cable.

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If a carrier wave of 1000 kHz is used to carry the signal, the length of transmitting antenna will be at least equal to
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Represent the union of two sets by Venn diagram for each of the following.

X={x | x is a prime number between 80 and 100}

Y={y | y is an odd number between 90 and 100}

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A 1 KW signal is transmitted using a communication channel which provides attenuation at the rate of  2dB per km.If the communication channel has a total length of 5 km, the power of the signal received is