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TRANSMISSION FUNDAMENTALS (C1 Past Board :excel:)


CHAPTER 1 TRANSMISSION FUNDAMENTALS (Past Board :excel:)

ECE Board Exam April 2001
An SWR reading which has a short circuit termination.
Infinity

ECE Board Exam November 2000
In an open wire transmission line, what is the normal separation between its two (2) conductors?
2 to 6 cm

ECE Board Exam April 2000
Which of the following term is used to describe the attenuation and phase shift per unit length of a transmission line?
Propagation constant

ECE Board Exam November 1999
An indication in radio communication when the voltage standing wave ratio is equal to zero.
No input power

ECE Board Exam April 1999
Refers to a connector that normally connects RG-213 coaxial. cable to an HF transceiver.
PL-259

ECE Board Exam November 1998
Width of frequency band just enough to ensure the transmission of information at a required rate and quality required, and under a specified condition and class of emission.
Necessary bandwidth

ECE Board Exam. April 1998
Best describe a dip meter.
A variable LC oscillator with metered feedback current

ECE Board Exam. April 1997
The standard test tone.
0 dBm

ECE Board April 1997
If voltage change is equal to twice its original value,. what is it corresponding change In dB?
6 dB


ECE Board Exam November 1996
Energy that has neither been-radiated into space,nor completely transmitted.
Standing waves

ECE Board Exam April 1997
To a couple a coaxial line, it is better to use a________
Balun

ECE Board Exam November 2000
What is the main reason,why coaxial cable is not used in microwe signal transmission?
High attenuation

ECE Board Exam April 1997
What is impedance of a balance 4-wire with a diameter of 0.25 spaced 2.5 cm apart using an insulator with a dielectric constant of 2.56?
100 ohms

ECE Board April 2000
In wire communications, non-resonat transmission lines are referred to as __________
Flat lines

ECE Board Exam November 1999
An electronic equipment used in radio communications to measure standing wave ratio.
Reflectometer

ECE Board Exam April 1999
How  does a shorted half-wave line act at a certain operating frequency?
Series resonant circuit

ECE Board Exam November 1998
Best choice of transmission line component to couple a coaxial line to a parallel-wire line.
Balun

ECE Board Exam April 1998
Referred to the dielectric constant of a transmission line material.
Velocity factor

ECE Board Exam April 1997
What is the characteristic impedance of a single wire with a diameter d=0.25 mm placed at the center between grounded parallel planes separated by 1 mm apart? The wire is held by a material with a velocity factor of 0.75?
75 ohms

ECE Board Exam March 1996
The power of standard test tone is normally ______
1mW

ECE Board Exam November 1996
Which tester is used to measure SWR?
Reflectometer

ECE Board Exam March 1996
The characteristic impedance of a transmission line does not depend upon its________
Length

ECE Board Exam April 2000
What is the input impedance equivalent of an open ended transmission line which is longer than a quarter wavelength?
As pure inductor

ECE Board Exam November 1999
In the study of transmission cable, twin lead. is also referred to as a_________
ribbon cable

ECE Board Exam April 1999
The greater the diameter of a wire, the _________ is the resistance.
Lesser

ECE Board Exam November 1998
What determines the velocity factor in transmission line?
Dielectrics in the line

ECE Board Exam April 1998
Technical study which deals with production, transport and delivery of a quality signal from source to destination
Transmission System Engineering

ECE Board Exam April 1997
If you have available number of power amplifiers with a gain of 100 each how many such amplifiers do you need to cascade to give an overall gain of 60 dB?
3 amplifiers

ECE Board Exam March 1996
What :is the reference tone level for dBm?
-90dBm

ECB Board Exam April 2060
What is the term for the ratio of actual velocity at which a signal travels through a line to the speed of light in a vacuum?
Velocity factor
ECE Board Exam November 1999
Referred to as a cause of crosstalk.
Electrical coupling between transmission media

ECE Board Exam November 1998
What is the meaning of the term velocity factor of a transmission line?
The velocity of the wave on the transmission line divided by the velocity of the light in a vacuum

ECE Board Exam April 1998
It is used to connect computers in the same building or in same area.
LAN

ECE Board Exam April 1997
What do you call the energy that was not radiated into space or completely transmitted?
Standing waves

ECE Board Exam November 1996
What is the applied power if a thermal RF wattmeter is connected to a transmitter through  variable attenuator? The wattmeter reads 84 mW when 15 dB of attenuation is used.
2.656 Watts

ECE Board Eaagl.March 1996
If the terminating impedance is exactly equal to the characteristic impedance of the transmission line the return loss is ______
infinite

ECE Board Exam April 1997
A singie.q nductor running from the transmitter to the antenna.
Single line wire

ECE Board Exam November 1996
Ina transmission line if the maximum current to minimum current ratio is 2:1. what is the ratio of the maximum voltage to minimum voltage?
2.1

ECE Board Exam March 1996
What is the main purpose of a communications system?
To provide an acceptable replica of the information at the destination

ECE Board Exam April 1997
__________ sets the limit on the maximum capacity of a channel with a gin noise level.
Shannon-Hartley theorem

ECE Board Exam November 1996
Which stands for dB relative level?
dBr

ECE Board Exam March 1996
To connect coaxial line to a parallel-wire, _______ is the best to use
Balun

ECE Board Exam November 1998
Which of the following determines the characteristics of a transmission line?
Physical dimensions

ECE Board Exam.April 1998
Which of the fotlowing is an impedance matching ratio of coax balun?
4:1

ECE Board Exam November 1997
An electronic equipment used to measure standing wave ratio.
Reflectometer

ECE Board Exam April 1997
What frequency does oxygen cause excessive attenuation?
60 GHz

ECE Board Exam November 1996
The standing wave ratio is equal to _________ if the load is properly matched with the transmission line.
1

ECE Board Exam March 1996
Characteristic impedance of a transmission line is the impedance measured at the ____ when its length is infinite.
Input

ECE Board Exam March 1996
What.quarterwave transformer will match a 100 ohms line to an antenna whose value is 175 ohms?
132.29 ohms

ECE Boardd Exam March 1996
When a transmission line uses ground return, it is called a/an __________ line.
Unbalanced

ECE Board Exam November 1996
Transmission lines when connected to antenna have
resistive load atthe resonant frequency

ECE Board Exam March 1996
Termination means
load connected to the output end of a transmission line

ECE Board Exam March 1996
Transmission lines are either balanced or unbalanced will respect to 
ground

ECE Board Exam March 1996
What is the velocity factor for non-foam dielectric 50 or 75 ohms flexible coaxial cable such as RG 8, 11, 58, and 59?
0.66

Board Exam November 1997
Propagation mode of microwave in a waveguide is known as _____
TE

Board Exam November 1998
A transmission line consisting of two conductors that have equal resistance per unit length.
Balanced line

ECE Board Exam November 1966
What is the equivalent output of a circuit in dBm, if it has an output of 10 Watts?
40 dBm
ECE Board Exam March 1996
Power is always ___________
a definite amount of energy
the rate at which energy is used
expressed in watts

ECE Board Exam November 1998
Which of the following is not a common transmission line impedance?
A.        50 ohms
B.        120 ohms
C.      75 ohms
D.      650 ohms

ECE Board Exam November 1997
The Width of the frequency band which is just sufficient to ensure the transmission of information of information at the rate and with the quality required under a specified condition and class of emission.
Necessary bandwidth

ECE Board Exam November 1996
Transmission line must be matched to the load to
transfer maximum power to the load

ECE Board Exam November 1996
When electromagnetic waves are propagated through a waveguide, they
are reflected from the walls but do not travel along them

ECE Board Exam November 1997
Coaxial lines are used on those system operating
Below 2 GHz

ECE Board Exaru.November 1996
You are measuring a voice channel at a -4 dB test point level, the meter reads 73 dBm (pure test tone) convert the reading into dBrnCO.
21 dBrnCO
ECE Board Exam November 1996
1 micron is equal to ___________ meter(s)
10^-6

ECE Board Exam November 1998
Best reason for pressurizing waveguides with dry air.
To reduce the possibility of internal arcing

ECE Board Exam November 1997
The outer conductor of a coaxial transmission line is always.grounded at the
input and output

ECE Board Exam November 1996
You are measuring noise in a voice channel at 7 dB test point level. The meter reads -56 dBm (FIA weighted). What is the reading in dBrnC?
34 dBrnC
ECE Board Exam November 1998
What do you call the phenomenon in digital circuits that describe the duration of time digital signal passes a circuit?
Propagation delay

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