Antennas Exercise Problems set 2

1. Find the maximum effective area of a /2 dipole antenna operating at 30 MHz. How
much power is received with an incident plane wave of strength 2 mV/m.
[Ans: 13.05 m
2
, 71.62 nW]
2. What is the maximum effective aperture of a microwave antenna with a directivity of
900? [Ans: 71.6
2
]

3. What is the maximum effective aperture (approximately) for a beam antenna having half-
power widths of 30 and 35 in perpendicular planes intersecting in the beam axis?
Minor lobes are small and may be neglected. [Ans: 3.1
2
]

4. What is the maximum power received at a distance of 0.5 km over a free-space 1 GHz
circuit consisting of a transmitting antenna with a 25 dB gain and a receiving antenna
with a 20 dB gain? The gain is with respect to a lossless isotropic source. The
transmitting antenna input is 150 W. [Ans: 10.8 mW ]

5. Two spacecraft are separated by 100 Mm. Each has an antenna with D = 1000 operating
at 2.5 GHz. If craft A's receiver requires 20 dB over 1 pW, what transmitter power is
required on craft B to achieve this signal level? [Ans: 11 kW ]

6. Two spacecraft are separated by 3 Mm. Each has an antenna with D = 200 operating at 2
GHz. If craft A's receiver requires 20 dB over 1 pW, what transmitter power is required
on craft B to achieve this signal level? [Ans: 158 W ]

7. The transmitting and receiving antennas are separated by a distance of 200 and have
directivities of 25 and 18 dB respectively. If 5 mW of power is to be received, calculate
the minimum transmitted power. [Ans: 1.583 W]

8. The power transmitted by a synchronous orbit satellite antenna is 320 W. The antenna
has a gain of 40 dB at 15 GHz. Calculate the power received by another antenna with
gain of 32 dB at a range of 24, 567 km. [Ans: 21.28 pW]

9. Two identical antennas in free space are separated by 12 m and are oriented for
maximum directive gain. At a frequency of 5 GHz, power received by one antenna is 30
dB down from that transmitted by the other. Calculate gain of antennas in dB.
[Ans: 19 dB]

10. A transmitting antenna with a 600 MHz carrier frequency produces 80 W of power. Find
the power received by another antenna at a free space distance of 1 km. Assume both
antennas have unity power gain.

11. Determine the gain in dB of a dish antenna of diameter of 0.5 m operating at satellite
downlink frequency of 4 GHz with 60% aperture efficiency. Repeat if the down link
frequency is 11 GHz. Estimate beamwidth for both frequencies.
[Ans: 24 dB, 33 dB; 10.5
0
, 3.8
0
]