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TEEGALA KRISHNA REDDY ENGINEERING COLLEGE
(UGC-Autonomous)
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Medbowli, Meerpet, Balapur, Hyderabad, Telangana- 500097

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V SEM (B.Tech-ECE)
UNIT WISE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
SUBJECT: ANTENNAS AND WAVE PROPAGATION
UNIT – I
SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
1. An antenna has a radiation resistance of 72 Ω, loss resistance of 8 Ωand its power gain of 12db,
determine the antenna efficiency
2. A Thin Dipole Antenna is λ/15 long. If its loss Resistance is 1.5Ω. Find its Radiation resistance
3. Define Radiation pattern
4. Draw fields from Oscillating dipole.
5. What are applications of loop antennas.
6. Define effective height.
7. What Radiation resistance of Half wave dipole and quarter wave monopole
LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS

1. Explain the following:
A) Radiation pattern B) Radiation intensity C) Directivity D) Gain
2. Derive the relation between effective aperture and Directivity.
3. Derive the radiation fields of Halfwave dipole.
4. Derive the radiated power and radiating resistance of Quarter-wave monopole.
5. Find the Radiation Fields of alternating current element
6. Explain the Principle of Operation of loop antenna?
7. Compare Far fields of small loop and short dipole.
UNIT – II
1. What is the need for antenna arrays.
2. Write short notes on end fire arrays.
3. Define Linear array
4. What are the sources of error while measuring the antenna parameters?
5. Write weights of 5 element binomial array
6. List out the disadvantages of binomial array?
7. Define Principle of Pattern Multiplication.
1. Explain about antenna array with 2-point sources having same amplitude with same phase and
same amplitude with opposite phase.
2. Derive the expression for array factor of linear array with ‘n’ isotropic point sources.
3. Derive the expressions for broadside array of ‘n’ isotropic point sources.
4. Explain the principle of pattern multiplication with example.
5. Compare broadside and end fire arrays.
6. Explain the procedure to measure directivity of antenna.
7. Explain about Gain measurement of antennas.
UNIT – III
1. Compare the Half wave dipole and Folded dipole.
2. What is pitch angle in Helical antenna.
3. Write modes of Helical antennas.
4. What are the applications of Helical antennas
5. Write types of Horn antenna
6. Find the power gain of a rectangular horn antenna whose aperture size is 8λ.
7. Find the directivity of a horn whose dimensions are 10 cm x 5 cm operating at a frequency of 6
GHz.

1. Derive input impedance of folded dipole and explain its operation.
2. Explain the operation of Yagi- uda antenna and write its applications
3. Sketch the geometry of a helical antenna, and explain its operation.
4. Explain the operation of a helical antenna under (i) Normal mode of operation (ii) axial mode of
operation.
5. Discuss different types of horn antennas with neat sketches.
6. If a helical antenna as spacing between turns is 0.05m, diameter is 0.1m, N=20 and operating
frequency is 1000 MHZ. Find Terminal impedance, HPBW, BWFN and Directivity.
7. Design a three element Yagi-Uda antenna to operate at a frequency of 172 MHz.
UNIT – IV
1. Mention the disadvantages and of microstrip antenna.

2. A parabolic reflector with a mouth diameter of 22 meters operates at 5 GHz frequency,
efficiency of 0.6. Find the power gain?
3. Find the beamwidth between first nulls (BWFN) of the radiation pattern of paraboloid operating
at 10GHZ which has a mouth diameter of 0.15m.
4. Draw the structure of Micro strip antennas and field distribution of patch antennas.
5. What is Reflector.
6. Write short notes on flat sheet reflector
7. Sketch various types of Feeds in Parabolic Reflectors.

1. List out advantages and limitations of Micro strip Antennas.
2. What are the different parameters that effects the characteristics of micro strip antenna explain?
3. Design a rectangular micro strip antenna using a substrate with dielectric constant of 2.2,
h=0.1588 cm so as to resonate at 10 GHz.
4. Discuss in detail about corner reflector design
5. Explain about parabolic reflector antenna with neat diagram.
6. With relevant diagram, explain the operations of Flat Sheet and Corner Reflectors with different
corner angles.
7. Describe in detail about the Cassegrain method of feeding a paraboloid reflector, with the help
of its geometry.
UNIT – V
1. Classify the layers exist during day time and night time in Ionosphere layers.
2. Calculate the maximum usable frequency for a high frequency radio link between two points at a
distance of 2500km on the surface of earth. Consider the height of ionosphere is 200km and the
critical frequency is 5MHz.
3. Define skip distance.
4. What is Multi hop propagation?
5. What is the relationship between MUF and critical frequency.
6. Find the range of LOS system when the receive and transmit antenna heights are 10m and 100m
respectively. Take the effective earth’s radius into consideration.
7. What is the critical frequency for reflection at vertical incidence, if the maximum value of
electron density is 1.24x106 per cm3.

1. Explain wave tilt for ground wave propagation
2. Derive field strength variation of space wave with distance and antenna height.
3. Discuss about effect of the curvature of the earth in space wave propagation
4. Explain the duct propagation and M-Curves in detail?
5. Derive the Relation Between Skip Distance and MUF
6. Define the following
i)Critical frequency ii) Maximum Usable Frequency iii) Virtual height iv) Skip distance
7. Discuss characteristics of Ionospheric layers

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TEEGALA KRISHNA REDDY ENGINEERING COLLEGE

Medbowli, Meerpet, Balapur, Hyderabad, Telangana- 500097

LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS

LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS

LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS

1. Mention the disadvantages and of microstrip antenna.

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