Microwave Communications

ECE Board Exam April 2001

Which of the following will you avoid in the construction of a microwave station?
Long horizontal runs

ECE Board Exam November 2000

Radio frequency where waveguides are not used extensively.
150 MHz

ECE Board Exam April 2000

Term used to describe a process of approaching a desired point by directing the vehicle towards that
point
Homing

ECE Board Exam November 1999

A system which does not refer to a technique in reducing the propagation errors in navigational
system such as multipath effects
Pulse transmission

ECE Board Exam April 1999

Which of the following is a navigational equipment which utilizes a ground radar system to determine
the position of a plane during its approach?
GCA

ECE Board Exam November 1998

_____________ is referred as the difference between available power and power budget.
Power margin

ECE Board Exam April 1998

Space diversity transmission means transmitting and receiving on __________.
two or more antennas operating on the same frequency

ECE Board Exam November 1996

One of the reasons why FDM is being replaced by TDM is
noise is amplified with voice when an FDM system is used

ECE Board Exam November 1996

What is the baseband frequency of standard FDM basic supergroup?
312 to 552 kHz

ECE Board Exam March 1996

The k-factor under normal atmospheric conditions in a microwave radio data profile calculation is
equal to __________
4/3

ECE Board Exam March 1996

LORAN is navigational system used primarily for _________
obtaining your fixed location over a large distances

ECE Board Exam April 2001

What navigational system technique uses an antenna directivity to reduce an undesired multipath
signals?
LORAN-C

ECE Board Exam November 2000

In microwave frequencies, the LOS distance is something extended through the occurrence of
____________
ducting

ECE Board Exam April 2000

Which of the following if not a part of the navigational radar?
Duplexer
------------- part of navigational radar-----------
Pulser
Display unit
Synchronizer
ECE Board Exam November 1999
How do you account the effect of selective fading on the transmitted signal in terms of its bandwidth?
more affirmative at wider bandwidth

ECE Board Exam April 1999

Frequencies most affected by knife-edge refraction.
VHF and UHF

ECE Board Exam April 1998

Refers to an effect of selective fading.
A fading effect caused by phase difference between radio wave components of the same
transmission, as experienced at the receiving station.

ECE Board Exam November 1996

When the clearance above the obstruction is equal to the radii of even Fresnel zones at the point of
reflection the RSL
is decreased

ECE Board Exam March 1996

LORAN is a navigation system used primary for
obtaining fixes over large distances

ECE Board Exam November 1966

When the value of k increases, the effective result is _______ of the equivalent curvatures.
flattening

ECE Board Exam March 1996

TACAN is a navigational aid providing _________
bearing and distance indication

ECE Board Exam November 1996

If Ns = 250 determine the earth radius k-factor.
ECE Board Exam March 1996
A one-hop, full duplex, microwave system is in a space diversity arrangement. Determine how many
receivers in all are used?
2

ECE Board Exam November 1996

A microwave communications system space loss calculation formula is
92.4 + 20 log F + 20 log D

ECE Board Exam March 1996

Radio fading resulting from obstruction losses.
Log normal fading

ECE Board Exam April 1998

Referred to as a ferrite device that can be used in lieu of a duplexer to isolate a microwave
transmitter and receiver when both are connected to the same antenna.
Circulator

ECE Board Exam November 1996

What is the method of diversity reception where the signal is transmitted on 2 different frequencies
over the same path?
Frequency

ECE Board Exam November 1996

What is the free space loss, in dB, between two microwave parabolic antennas 38.0 kilometer apart
operating at 7.0 GHz?

ECE Board Exam November 1996

Low-power radar uses
IMPATT
ECE Board Exam November 2000
A component of a microwave station that samples signal traveling in one direction down to
the transmission line.
Directional coupler

ECE Board Exam April 2000

A navigational error which is caused by reflection of obstruction close to the location of navigational
aid having a normal concern on directional bearing.
Site error

ECE Board Exam April 1999

An aircraft deviation measured by an ILS localizer.
Horizontal

ECE Board Exam April 1998

Which of the following systems is not used in radio detection and ranging?
Amplitude modulation

----------- systems used in radio detection and ranging----------

Frequency shift
Frequency modulation
Pulse radar

ECE Board Exam April 1997

A microwave system that requires the use of repeater.
Intervening system that requires the use of repeater.
Distances involved are greater

ECE Board Exam November 1996

Space diversity transmission means transmitting and receiving on
two or more antennas operating on the same frequencies
ECE Board Exam April 1997
RADAR means
Radio Detection and Ranging

ECE Board Exam November 2000

Which band in the radio spectrum does the radio navigational system Omega transmit?
VLF

ECE Board Exam November 1998

Which of the following is not a common microwave application?
Mobile radio

------------- common microwave application --------------

Radar
Data transmission
Space communications

ECE Board Exam April 1998

What do you call a circuit that controls the magnetron output?
Modulator

ECE Board Exam April 1997

A microwave link between the earth station and the down-town terminal
Terrestrial link

ECE Board Exam November 1997

Two or more antennas separated by 9 wavelengths are used.
Space diversity

ECE Board Exam April 2000

In radio navigation, one of the following deviations of an airplane is determined by an ILS localizer.
Horizontal
ECE Board Exam April 1997
The advantage of periscope antenna in microwave.
Shorten waveguide link

ECE Board Exam April 2000

In navigational system, one of the following indication is provided by the localizer unit of the ILS.
A horizontal deviation of an airpalne from its optimum path of descent along the axis of
the runway.

ECE Board Exam April 1999

Referred to as the cycle time difference between the master and the slave signals to reach the
receiver in the operation of loran navigational equipment.
Time delay

ECE Board Exam April 1999

Which of the HF marine antenna safety link is intended to be broken during the unusual movement
of the ship?
Weak part

ECE Board Exam April 1999

What is being measured in radar theory to complete the determination of a distance to a target or
object, after a high radio frequency signal is transmitted to a target?
Echo time off the object to the source