1. What is the opposition to the transfer of energy which is c.

Ground
considered the dominant characteristic of a cable or circuit
that emanates from its physical structure?
d. Impedance
2. When load impedance equals to Zo of the line, it means
that the load _____ all the power.
b. absorbs
3. Impedance matching ratio of a coax balun.
b. 4:1
4. Which stands for dB relative level?
c. dBr
5. Standard test tone used for audio measurement.
d. 1000 Hz
6. When VSWR is equal to zero, this means
a. that no power is applied
18. The standing wave ratio is equal to _______ if the load
is properly matched with the transmission line.
d. 1
19. ________ is the advantage of the balanced transmission
line compared to unbalanced line.
a. Low attenuation
20. _______ is the method of determining the bandwidth of
any processing system.
c. Frequency analysis
21. What causes the attenuation present in a waveguide?
c. Losses in the conducting walls of the guide
22. A device that converts a balanced line to an unbalanced
line of a transmission line.
d. Balun

7. _______ is the ratio of reflected voltage to the forward 23. What is the approximate line impedance of a parallel-
travelling voltage. strip line spaced 1 cm apart with the length of 50 cm?
c. Reflection coefficient a. 10 ohms

8. Transmission line must be matched to the load to 24. What is the average power rating of RG-58 C/u?
______. b. 50 W
b. transfer maximum power to the load
25. A coaxial cable used for high temperatures.
9. Which indicate the relative energy loss in a capacitor? d. RG-211
c. Dissipation factor
26. If you have available number of power amplifiers with
10. What is the standard test tone? a gain of 100 each, how many such amplifiers do you need
c. 0 dBm to cascade to give an overall gain of 60dB?
b. 3
11. The energy that neither radiated into space nor
completely transmitted. 27. You are measuring noise in a voice channel at a -4 dB
d. Standing waves test point level, the meter reads -73 dBm, convert the
reading into dBrnCO.
12. Micron is equal to _______ meter. d. 21
a. 10-10
28. The velocity factor for a transmission line depends on
13. 1 Angstrom (A) is equal to _______. the dielectric constant of the material used.
b. 10-10 m
29. Impedance inversion can be obtained by a quarter-wave
14. Why is it impossible to use a waveguide at low radio line.
frequencies?
a. Because of the size of the waveguide 30. Transmission lines when connected to antennas have
resistive load at the resonant frequency.
15. ________ is the transmission and reception of
information. 31. One of the following is not a bounded media.
b. Communications d. Ocean

16. What is the loss of the circuit in dB if the power ration 32. The impedance measured at the input of the
of output to input is 0.01? transmission line when its length is infinite.
a. 20 c. Characteristic impedance

17. Transmission lines are either balanced or unbalanced 33. The following are considered primary line constants
with respect to except
d. complex propagation constant
34. The dielectric constants of materials commonly used in
transmission lines range from about
a. 1.2 to 2.8
35. Typically, the velocity factor (VF) of the materials used
in transmission lines range from
a. 0.6 to 0.9
36. For an air dielectric two-wire line, the minimum
characteristic impedance value is
a. 85 ohms
37. When a quarter-wave section transmission line is
terminated by a short circuit and is connected to an RF
source at the other end, its input impedance is equivalent
to a parallel resonant LC circuit.
38. A transmitter operating at 30 MHz with 4 W output is
connected via 10 m of RG-8A/u cable to an antenna that
has an input resistance of 300 ohms. Find the reflection
coefficient.
a. 0.71
39. A quarter wave transformer is connected to a parallel
wire line in order to match the line to a load of 1000 ohms.
The transformer has a characteristic impedance of 316.23
ohms. The distance between centers is 4 inches. What is the
percentage reduction in the diameter of the line?
b. 83%
46. Pulse dialing has ________ rate.
c. 10 pulses/sec
47. ________ is a telephone wire that connects two central
offices.
b. Trunk line
48. The central switching office coordinating element for
all cell sites that has cellular processor and a cellular
switch. It interfaces with telephone company zone offices,
control call processing and handle billing activities.
a. MTSO
49. ________ in a cellular system performs radio-related
functions for cellular site.
b. Base station
50. A technology used to increase the capacity of a mobile
phone system.
a. Frequency re-use
1. What is the polarization of a discone antenna?
A. Vertical
2. If the antenna increases 3.3 times how much does the
radiated power increase?
B. 10.89 times
3. When speaking of antennas. ______ is a section which
would be a complete antenna by itself.
C. bay

40. The concept used to make one Smith chart universal is 4. In what range of frequencies are most omnidirectional
called horizontally polarized antennas used?
b. normalization A. VHF, UHF

41. What are the basic elements of communications 5. If the current ratios of the two or more elements must be
system? held 5% and the phase angle to 3 the antenna is called a
b. Transmitter, receiver, transmission channel B. critical phased array

42. ________ is the transmission of printed material over 6. A device that converts high frequency current into
telephone lines. electromagnetic wave.
d. Facsimile A. Antenna

43. ________ is a continuous tone generated by the 7. Which is a non-resonant antenna?

combination of two frequencies of 350 Hz and 440 Hz used A. Rhombic antenna
in telephone sets.
d. Call waiting tone 8. Gain of a half-wave dipole antenna over isotropic.
A. 2.15 dB
44. ________ are unidirectional amplifiers having 20-25
decibel gain that are placed about 75 km apart used to 9. Very low signal strength in antenna.
compensate for losses along the telephone line. B. Null
a. VF repeaters
10. What is the gain of the Hertzian dipole over isotropic
45. ________ is a component in the telephone set that has antenna?
the primary function of interfacing the handset to the local C. 1.76 dB
loop.
d. Induction coil 11. ______ is the measurement of a unilateral antenna
properties of directivity
C. Beamwidth
12. In testing transmitter to prevent interfering with other
stations, which type of antenna must be used?
B. Dummy antenna
13. The best solution to fading is _____.
A. space diversity
14. _____ is the amount of uncertainty in a system of
symbols
C. Entropy
15. If an antenna has a gain of 3 dB, it increases the output
of the transmitter by
B. 1000 times
16. Top loading is used in an antenna in order to increase
its ______.
C. effective height
17. A horizontal antenna is _____.
B. horizontally polarized
18. All elements in a beam _____ antennas are in line
A. collinear
19. Which does not use vertical polarization antenna?
B. FM Broadcasting
20. Lightning rods must be mounted a top structure not less
than ___ above the highest point.
C. 30 cm
21. _____ is an antenna with a number of half-wave
antenna on it.
A. Antenna array
22. Which antenna radiates an omnidirectional pattern in
the horizontal plane with vertical polarization?
A. Marconi antenna
23. An antenna with very high gain and very narrow
beamwidth.
D. Parabolic dish antenna
24. What determines antenna polarization?
D. The direction of the electric field vector
25. _____ is the horizontal pointing angle of an antenna
A. Azimuth
26. A dipole antenna requires to be fed with 20 kW of
power to produce a given signal strength to a particular
distant point. If the addition of a reflector makes the same
field strength available with an input power of 11kW. What
is the gain in dB, obtained by the use if the reflector. (Gain
referred to this particular dipole).
B. 2.6
27. What is the estimated medium wind loading in the
Philippines for antenna tower design?
C. 200 kph
28. Discone radiation pattern is ______.
A. omnidirectional/vertical polarized
29. _____ is an open-ended slot antenna
C. Notch antenna
30. Which antenna is a properly terminated?
B. Rhombic
31. What is the radiation characteristic of a dipole antenna?
B. Bidirectional
32. What is the theoretical gain of a Hertzian dipole?
A. 1.76 dB
33. An antenna with unity gain
C. Isotropic
34. How will you increase the gain of an antenna?
B. By focusing the radiated energy in one desired
direction
35. An antenna which is one-tenth wavelength long
D. Elementary doublet
36. What is the minimum number of turns a helix antenna
must have?
A. 3
37. What is the gain of isotropic antenna?
B. 1
38. Which of the following improves antenna directivity?
D. Parasitic element
39. The antenna radiates _____ polarized waves when the
transmitter antenna is horizontally installed.
C. horizontally
40. The length of a Marconi antenna to operate with 985
kHz is ______.
C. 250 ft
41. What is the front-to-back ratio of an antenna which
radiates 500 watts in a northernly direction and 50 watts in
a southernly direction?
B. 10 dB
42. If 4 kW in antenna produces 50 V/m in a receiving
antenna, a 15 kW will produce _____.
C. 100 V/m
43. If the radiated power increase 10.89 times, the antenna
current increases by ______.
A. 3.3 times

44. The frequency of operation of a dipole antenna cut to a

length of 3.4 m.
B. 44 MHz

45. Comparing the signal strength arriving at the driven

element from the desired direction to the signal strength
reaching the driver from the opposite direction.
D. Front-to-back ratio

46. What is the capture area of a dipole operated at 75

MHz?
C. 2.088 m2

47. _____ of an antenna is a measure of how the antenna

concentrates its radiated power in a given direction.
C. Gain

48. Shortening effect of an antenna that makes it appear as

if it were 5% longer.
A. End effect

49. Harmonic suppressor connected to an antenna.

A. Low-pass filter

50. A simple half-wavelength antenna radiates the strongest

signal
C. at right angles to its axis