Communications Theory 3

1. The power density measured at a certain distance from a 5kW isotropic

source in free space is 15.9x10e-14W/m2. How far away the source?
2. An isotrophic source in free space sends a signal whose power is 50W. At
point B located 18km away from the transmitter, the signal is 9.3 db less than
at some previous point A. Find the field strantgh at point A.
3. Th critical frequency at particular time is 12.5Mhz. What is the MUF for
transmitting station if the required angle of distance for propaghation to a
desired destination is 65degrees.
4. What is the radio horizon distance between a 150ft transmitting station and a
70ft receiving station?
5. What happens to the field intensity when the distance is increased by 3 times
6. Find the frequency of operation of a dipole antenna cut to length of
3.4m(k=0-95)
7. Find the suitable ground plane for a frequency of 220Mhz?
8. How does the radiated power of an antenna increases when its current is
increased by 3.4 times?
9. A transmitter with an output power of 100W is connected to a dipole antenna
with a radiation resistance of 50ohms an ohmic resistance of 2ohms.What is
the radiation efficiency of the antenna?How much power is radiated to
space?
10. Calculate the directive gain in decibels for an antenna that produces power
density Pd=2uW/m2 at a point when a reference antenna produces 0.5uW/m2
at the same point/
11. Calculate the power density at a point 50 km from from an antenna that
operates at an input power Pin=100W,an efficiency of 55% and directivity
Gd=23dB.
12. Calculate the effective radiated power of an FM broadcast station if the
output of transmitter is 1000W,transmission line loss is 50W and the antenna
power gain is 5.
13. Determine the gain of a 6ft parabolic antenna operating at 1800Mhz
14. A parabolic antenna has a diameter of 3m, an efficiency of 0.7 and operates
at a frequency of 3Ghz. Find the antenna gain,beamwidth, and effective area.
15. An antenna has a maximum forward gain of 16dB at its 112Mhz center
frequency. The reverse gain is -6dB. The beamwidth is 34degreees and the
bandwidth extends from 50 to 160Mhz. Calculate gain at 17
degrees,bandwith,.
16. A paraboloid is to have a power gain of 30dB. If the frequency at operation is
to be 6Ghz,what is the diameter of parabolic reflector?find the far field
distance for this antenna.
17. Find the approximate width of pyramidal horn antenna that will operate at
10,000Mhz intended to have a beamwidth of 10 degrees.
18. Draw the GSM architecture and its functional blocks
19. Define the different functional blocks of GSM architecture
20. Describe the principle of frequency reuse and cell splitting