CHAPTER 1

Transmission Fundamentals

1.

What is the opposition to the transfer of energy which is considered the dominant characteristics of a cable or
circuit that emanates from its physical structure?
A. Conductance
B. Resistance
C. Reactance
D. Impedance

2.

When load impedance equals to ZO of the line, it means that the load _____ all the power.
A. reflects
B. absorbs
C. attenuates
D. radiates

3.

Impedance matching ratio of a coax balun.

A. 1:4
B. 4:1
C. 2:1
D. 3:2

4.

Which stands for dB relative level?

A. dBrn
B. dBa
C. dBr
D. dBx

5.

Standard test tone used for audio measurement.

A. 800 Hz
B. 300 Hz
C. 100 Hz
D. 1000 Hz

6.

When VSWR is equal to zero, this means

A. that no power is applied
B. that the load is purely resistive
C. that the load is pure reactance
D. that the load is opened

7.

_____ is the ratio of reflected voltage to the forward travelling voltage.

A. SWR
B. VSWR
C. Reflection coefficient
D. ISWR

8.

Transmission line must be matched to the load to _____.

A. transfer maximum voltage to the load
B. transfer maximum power to the load
C. reduce the load current
D. transfer maximum current to the load

9.

Which indicate the relative energy loss in a capacitor?

A. Quality factor
B. Reactive factor
C. Dissipation factor
D. Power factor

10. What is the standard test tone?

A. 0 dB
B. 0 dBW
C. 0 dBm
D. 0dBrn
11. The energy that neither radiated into space nor completely transmitted.
A. Reflected waves
B. Captured waves
C. Incident waves
D. Standing waves
12. Micron is equal to _____ meter.
-10
A. 10
-9
B. 10
-6
C. 10
-3
D. 10
13. 1 Angstrom (A) is equal to _____.
-3
A. 10 micron
-10
B. 10 m
-6
C. 10 micron
-6
D. 10 m
14. Why is it impossible to use waveguide at low radio frequencies?
A. Because of the size of the waveguide
B. Due to severe attenuation
C. Due to too much radiation
D. All of these
15. _____ is the transmission and reception of information.
A. Modulation
B. Communication
C. Radiation
D. Emission
16. What is the loss of the circuit in dB if the power ratio of output to input is 0.01?
A. 20
B. -20
C. 40
D. -40

17. Transmission lines either balanced or unbalanced with respect to

A. negative terminal
B. reference
C. ground
D. positive terminal
18. The standing wave ratio is equal to _____ if the load is properly matched with the transmission line.
A. infinity
B. 0
C. -1
D. 1
19. _____ is the advantage of the balanced transmission line compared to unbalanced line.
A. Low attenuation
B. Easy installation
C. Low radiation loss
D. Tensile strength
20. _____ is the method of determining the bandwidth of any processing system.
A. Fourier series
B. Spectral analysis
C. Frequency analysis
D. Bandwidth analysis
21. What causes the attenuation present in a waveguide?
A. The air dielectric filling the guide
B. The coating of silver inside
C. Losses in the conducting walls of the guide
D. Radiation loss
22. A device that converts a balanced line to an unbalanced line of a transmission line.
A. Hybrid
B. Stub
C. Directional coupler
D. Balun
23. What is the approximate line impedance of a parallel-strip line spaced 1 cm apart with the length of 50 cm?
A. 10 ohms
B. 15 ohms
C. 18 ohms
D. 23 ohms
24. What is the average power rating of RG-58 C/u?
A. 25 W
B. 50 W
C. 75 W
D. 200 W
25. A coaxial cable used for high temperatures.
A. RG-58C
B. RG-11A
C. RG-213
D. RG-211A

26. If you have available number of power amplifiers with a gain of 100 each, how many such amplifier do you
need to cascade to give an overall gain of 60 dB?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
27. You are measuring noise in a voice channel at a -4 dB test point level, the meters reads -73 dBm, convert the
reading into dBrnCO.
A. 12
B. 16
C. 18
D. 21
28. The velocity factor of a transmission line
A. depends on the dielectric constant of the material used
B. increase the velocity along the transmission line
C. is governed by the skin effect
D. is higher for a solid dielectric than for air
29. Impedance inversion by
A. a short-circuited stub
B. an open-circuited stub
C. a quarter-wave line
D. a half-wave line
30. Transmission line when connected to antennas have
A. capacitive load
B. resistive load whose resistance is greater than the characteristic impedance of the line
C. resistive load whose resistances is less than characteristic impedance of the line
D. resistive load at the resonant frequency
31. One of the following is not a bounded media
A. Coaxial line
B. Two-wire line
C. Waveguide
D. Ocean
32. The impedance measured at the input of the transmission line when its length is infinite.
A. Input impedance
B. Open circuit impedance
C. Characteristic impedance
D. Short circuit impedance
33. The following are considered primary line constants except
A. conductance
B. resistance
C. capacitance
D. complex propagation constant

34. The dielectric constants of materials commonly used in transmission lines range from about
A. 1.2 to 2.8
B. 2.8 to 3.5
C. 3.5 to 5.2
D. 1.0 to 1.2
35. Typically, the velocity factor (Vr) of the materials used in transmission lines range from
A. 0.6 to 0.9
B. 0.1 to 0.5
C. 1.0 to 0.9
D. 0.6 to 0.8
36. For an air dielectric two-wire line, the minimum characteristic impedance value is
A. 85
B. 83
C. 90
D. 88
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
A. inductive
B. capacitive
C. resistive
D. 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 . Find the reflection coefficient.
A. 0.71
B. 0.77
C. 0.97
D. 0.76
39. A quarterwave transformer is connected to parallel wire line in order to match the line load of 1000 . The
transformers has a characteristic impedance of 316.23 . The distance between centers is 4 inches. What is
the percentage reduction in the diameter of the line?
A. 85%
B. 83%
C. 86%
D. 90%
40. The concept to make one Smith chart universal is called
A. ionization
B. normalization
C. rationalization
D. termination
41. What are the basic elements of communications systems?
A. Source, transmission channel, transmitter
B. Transmitter, receiver, transmission channel
C. Information, transmission channel, receiver
D. Sender and receiver

42. _____ is the transmission of printed material over telephone lines.

A. Internet
B. Data communications
C. Telegraphy
D. Facsimile
43. _____ is continuous tone generated by the combination of the frequencies of 350 Hz 440 Hz used in telephone
sets.
A. DC tone
B. Ringing tone
C. Dial tone
D. Call waiting tone
44. _____ are unidirectional amplifiers having 20-25 decibel gain that are placed about 75 km apart to
compensate for losses along the telephone line.
A. VF repeaters
B. Loading coils
C. Loop extenders
D. Echo suppressors
45. _____ is a component in the telephone set that has primary function of interfacing the handset to the local
loop.
A. Resistor
B. Capacitor
C. Varistor
D. Induction coil
46. Pulse dialling has _____ rate
A. 20 pulses/min
B. 10 pulses/min
C. 10 pulses/sec
D. 80 pulses/sec
47. _____ is a telephone wire that connects two central offices.
A. 2-wire circuit
B. Trunk line
C. Leased line
D. Private line
48. The central switching office coordinating element for all cell sites that has cellular processor cellular switch. It
interfaces with telephone company zone offices, control call processing and handle billing activities.
A. MTSO
B. Cell site
C. PTSN
D. Trunk line
49. _____ in a cellular system performs radio-related functions for cellular site.
A. Switching system
B. Base station
C. Operation and support system
D. Mobile station

50. A technology used to increase the capacity of a mobile phone system.

A. Frequency re-use
B. Cell splitting
C. TDM
D. FDM
51. If the grade of service of a telephone system indicated P = 0.05, what does it mean?
A. Completed calls of 5%
B. Lost calls of 5%
C. Lost calls of 95%
D. Lost calls of 105%
52. _____ is the Out-of-Band signalling between Toll Central Offices (Bell System Standard).
A. 3,825 Hz
B. 3700 Hz
C. 2,600 Hz
D. 800 Hz
53. In a telephone system, the customers telephone directory numbering is from 000 to 999, what is the capacity
of a telephone system numbering from 000 to 999?
A. 100 lines
B. 1000 lines
C. 10,000 lines
D. 100,000 lines
54. If the SWR is infinite, what type of load transmission line has?
A. Purely reactive
B. Purely resistive
C. Purely capacitive
D. Purely inductive
55. Not more that _____ digits make up an international telephone number as recommended by CCITT REC. E.
161.
A. 8
B. 10
C. 11
D. 12
56. One (1) Erlang is equal to _____.
A. 360 CCS
B. 36 CCS
C. 3.6 CCS
D. 100 CCS
57. Standard tariff for flat rate telephone service beyond the normal flat rate in that area.
A. WATS
B. OTLP
C. TIP
D. DTWX

58. The standard analog telephone channel bandwidth.

A. 300-3400 Hz
B. 1200 Hz
C. 200-3200 Hz
D. 300-3000 Hz
59. Type of switching in which a pair of wire from the telephone set terminates in a jack and the switch is
supervised by an operator.
A. Crossbar switching
B. Manual switching
C. Electronic switching
D. Step-by-step switching
60. Every time when the telephone is idle, the handset is in the _____ state.
A. on-hook
B. off-hook
C. busy
D. spare
61. _____ is component in the telephone set that has the primary function of compensating for the local loop
length.
A. Resistor
B. Varistor
C. Capacitor
D. Induction coil
62. What kind of receiver is used in conventional telephone handset?
A. Carbon
B. Electromagnetic
C. Ceramic
D. Capacitor
63. A voice-grade circuit using the PTN has an ideal passband of
A. 0 to 4 Hz
B. 0 to 4 MHz
C. 0. to 4 kHz
D. 0 to 4 GHz
64. _____ is the minimum-quality circuit available using the PTN.
A. Basic voice grade (VG)
B. Basic voice channel (VC)
C. Basic voice band (VB)
D. Basic telephone channel
65. Direct distance dialling (DDD) network is called
A. Private-line network
B. PT network
C. Dial-up network
D. Trunk network

66. What is the advantage of sidetone?

A. Transmission efficiency is increases
B. Speaker increases his voice resulting in a strengthened signal
C. No dissipation of energy in balancing network
D. Assure the customer that the telephone is working
67. _____ is a special service circuit connecting two private branch exchanges (PBX).
A. Phantom line
B. Tie trunk
C. Tandem trunk
D. Private line
68. The published rates, regulations, and descriptions governing the provision of communications service for
public use.
A. Toll rate
B. Tariff
C. Bulk billing
D. Detailed billing
69. What is the power loss of a telephone hybrid?
A. 1 dB
B. 2 dB
C. 3 dB
D. 6 dB
70. Telephone channel has a band-pass characteristic occupying the frequency range of _____.
A. 300-400 Hz
B. 300-3400 Hz
C. 300-3000 Hz
D. 300-2700 Hz
71. The first Strowger step-by-step switch used in _____.
A. 1875
B. 1890
C. 1897
D. 1913
72. What is the phase delay of an 800 Hz voice signal if the phase shift is 15 degrees?
A. 52 sec
B. 1.25 sec
C. 83.33 sec
D. 26 sec
73. What is the CCITT recommendation for a preparation of loss plan, a variable loss plans and fixed loss plan?
A. G.133
B. G.141
C. G.132
D. G.122

74. What is the diameter of a copper wire to be used in a 16 km loop with a dc loop resistance of 100 ohms/km?
A. 0.838 mm
B. 0.465 mm
C. 1.626 mm
D. 2.159 mm
75. What kind of cell is appropriate for load management, fast moving mobiles and low-usage areas?
A. Pico cells
B. Micro cells
C. Nano cells
D. Umbrella cells
76. In cellular networks, standard base station antennas are replaced by _____.
A. adaptive array
B. flat plate antenna
C. dipole array
D. focused antenna
77. What is the basis of the first generation wireless local loop?
A. Digital cellular technology
B. Analog cellular technology
C. PSTN
D. AMPS technology
78. When the calling party hears a busy tone on his telephone, the call is considered
A. lost
B. disconnected
C. complete
D. incomplete
79. Short-circuited stubs are preferred to open circuited stubs because the latter are
A. more difficult to make and connect
B. made of a transmission line with different characteristic impedance
C. liable to radiate
D. incapable of giving a full range of reactances
80. What is the ratio of the reflected voltage to the incident voltage?
A. VSWR
B. ISWR
C. SWR
D. Coefficient of reflection
81. One method of determining antenna impedance.
A. Stub matching
B. Trial and error
C. Smith chart
D. Quarter-wave matching
82. _____ is a single conductor running from the transmitter to the antenna.
A. Single-wire line
B. Microstrip
C. Twin-lead
D. Coaxial line

83. Coaxial cable impedance is typically _____.

A. 150 to 300
B. 50 to 75
C. 30 to 45
D. 300 to 600
84. Waveguide becomes compulsory above what frequencies?
A. Above 3 GHz
B. Above 10 kHz
C. At 300 MHz
D. Above 10 GHz
85. Nominal voice channel bandwidth is _____.
A. 20 to 30 kHz
B. 0 to 3 kHz
C. 4 kHz
D. 55 kHz above
86. Echo suppressors are used on all communications systems when the round trip propagation time exceeds
_____.
A. 50 ms
B. 30 ms
C. 100 ms
D. 1 ms
87. A radio transmission line of impedance is to be connected to an antenna having an input impedance of 150
. What is the impedance of a quarter-wave matching line?
A. 212
B. 250
C. 200
D. 150
88. Quarter-wavelength line is used as _____.
A. impedance transformer
B. lecher line
C. transmission line
D. harmonic suppressor
89. The transmission lines which can convey electromagnetic waves only in higher modes is usually called
A. coaxial cable
B. waveguide
C. power lines
D. twisted wire of telephone line
90. Why is nitrogen gas sometimes used in waveguide?
A. To increase the distributed capacitance
B. To keep the waveguide dry
C. To reduce the skin effect at the walls of the guide
D. To raise the guides wave impedance

91. The apparent speed of propagation along a waveguide based on the distance between wavefronts along the
walls of the guide is called
A. group velocity
B. phase velocity
C. normal velocity
D. abnormal velocity
92. How do you couple in and out of a waveguide?
A. Wrap a coil of wire around one end of the waveguide
B. Insertion of an E-probe into the waveguide
C. Insertion of a H-loop into the waveguide
D. Both B and C
93. A rectangular waveguide is operating in the dominant TE10 mode. The associated flux lines are established
A. transversely across the narrow dimension of the waveguide
B. transversely across the wide dimension of the waveguide
C. in the metal walls parallel to the direction of propagation
D. in the metal walls perpendicular to the direction of propagation
94. For the dominant mode of a rectangular waveguide, the distance between two instantaneous consecutive
positions of maximum field intensity (in a direction parallel to the walls of the waveguide) is referred to as half
of the
A. free-space wavelength
B. cutoff wavelength in the wide dimension
C. guide wavelength
D. group wavelength
95. The guide wavelength, g, in a rectangular waveguide is
A. equal to the free-space wavelength at the cut-off frequency
B. equal to the free-space wavelength for the same signal frequency
C. less than the free-space wavelength at the cut-off frequency
D. greater than the free-space wavelength at the same signal frequency
96. Using the TE10 mode, microwave power can only be transmitted in free rectangular guide provided
A. the wider dimension is less than one-half of the wavelength in free space
B. the narrow dimension is less than one-quarter of the wavelength in free-space
C. the wide dimension is greater than on-half of the guide wavelength
D. the wide dimension is greater than one-half of the wavelength in free-space
97. If the signal frequency applied to a rectangular guide is increase and the dominant mode is employed
A. the free-space wavelength, , is increased
B. the phase velocity, V, is increased
C. the guide wavelength is increased
D. the group velocity, Vg, is increased

98. If a 6 GHz signal is applied to a rectangular waveguide and the reflection angle, , is 20o, what is the value of
the guide wavelength, g?
A. 6.10 cm
B. 5.32 cm
C. 4.78
D. 5.00 cm
99. The inner dimensions of a rectangular waveguide are 1.75 cm by 3.5 cm. the cutoff wavelength for the
dominant mode is
A. 1.75 cm
B. 3.5 cm
C. 7.0 cm
D. 0.4375 cm
100. A signal whose wavelength is 3.5 cm is being propagated along a guide whose inner dimensions are 2 cm by 4
cm. What is the value of the guide wavelength, g ?
A. 3.12 cm
B. 3.89 cm
C. 3.57 cm
D. 6.30 cm
101. The frequency range ever which a rectangular waveguide is excited in the domain mode is limited to
A. the difference between the frequency for which the reflection angle, , is 90o and the frequency for
which is zero.
B. the difference between the frequency for which the free-space wavelength is equal to the cutoff value
and the frequency for which the free-space wavelength id equal to the guide wavelength
C. the difference between the frequency at which the cutoff wavelength is twice the narrow dimension
D. None of these
102. If a rectangular waveguide is to be excited in the dominant mode, the E-probe should be inserted
A. at the sealed end
B. at a distance of one quarter-wavelength from the sealed end
C. at a distance of one-half wavelength from the sealed end
D. at a distance of three-quarters of a wavelength from the sealed end
103. A quarter-wave line is connected to an RF generator and is shorted out at the far end. What is the input
impedance to the line generator?
A. A low value of resistance
B. A high value of resistance
C. A capacitive resistance which is equal in the value to the lines surge impedance
D. An inductive resistance which is equal to the value to the lines surge impedance
104. If the SWR on a transmission line has a high value, the reason could be
A. an impedance mismatch between the line and the load
B. that the line is non-resonant
C. a reflection coefficient of zero at the load
D. that the load is matched to the line

105. If a quarter-wave transmission line is shorted at one end

A. there is minimum current at the shorted end
B. the lie behaves as a parallel-tuned circuit in relation to the generator
C. the line behaves as a series-tuned circuit in relation to the generator
D. there is a minimum voltage at the shorted end
106. A 50-ohm transmission line is feeding an antenna which represents a 50 resistive load. To shorten the line,
the length must be
A. any convenient value
B. an odd multiple of three-quarters of a wavelength
C. an odd multiple of half a wavelength
D. an even multiple of a quarter of a wavelength
107. The outer conductor of the coaxial cable is usually grounded
A. at the beginning and at the end of the cable
B. only at the beginning of the cable and only at the end of the cable
C. only at the end of the cable
D. at the middle of the cable
108. A feature of an infinite transmission line is that
A. its input impedance at the generator is equal to the lines surge impedance
B. its phase velocity is greater than the velocity of light
C. no RF current will be drawn from the generator
D. the impedance varies at different positions on the line
109. When the surge impedance of a line is matched to the load, the line will
A. transfer maximum current to the load
B. transfer maximum voltage to the load
C. transfer maximum power to the load
D. have a VSWR equal to zero
110. A lossless line is terminated by a resistive load which is not equal to the surge impedance. If the value of the
reflection coefficient is 0.5, the VSWR is
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 15
111. Ratio of the mismatch between the antenna and the transmitter power.
A. Standing wave pattern
B. Reflection coefficient
C. SWR
D. index of refraction

112. Emission designation for a facsimile.

A. H3E and A4E
B. R3E and A4E
C. F4E and J3E
D. F3C and A3E
113. Commonly used telephone wire.
A. AWG #19
B. AWG #18
C. AWG #30
D. AWG #33
114. What is the distance travelled by a wave in the time of one cycle?
A. Frequency
B. Hop
C. Wavelength
D. Crest
115. The velocity factor is inversely proportional with respect to the _____.
A. square of the dielectric constant
B. square root of the dielectric constant
C. dielectric constant
D. square root of refractive index
116. _____ is a hollow structure that has no center conductor but allows waves to propagate down its length.
A. Waveguide
B. Hybrid
C. Pipe
D. Directional coupler
117. To connect a coaxial line to a parallel wire line, _____ is used.
A. hybrid circuit
B. balun
C. directional coupler
D. quarter-wave transformer matching circuit
118. What length for which the input power has been halved for a transmission line with an attenuation of 6
dB/km?
A. 1.5 km
B. 0.5 km
C. 63 km
D. 2 km
119. In a waveguide, _____ is a specific configuration of electric and magnetic fields that allows a wave to
propagate.
A. set-up
B. coupler
C. channel
D. mode

120. A rectangular waveguide has dimensions of 3 cm x 5 cm. What is the dominant mode cut-off frequency?
A. 2 GHz
B. 3 GHz
C. 2.5 GHz
D. 3.5 GHz
121. _____ are transmission lines which can convey electromagnetic waves only in higher order modes?
A. Coaxial cables
B. Twisted pairs of telephone wire
C. Power cables
D. Waveguides
122. The amount of uncertainty in a system of symbols is also called
A. bandwidth
B. loss
C. entropy
D. quantum
123. The twists in twisted wire pairs
A. reduced electromagnetic interference
B. occur at a 30-degree angle
C. eliminate loading
D. were removed due to cost
124. An example of a bounded medium is
A. coaxial cable
B. waveguide
C. fiber-optic cable
D. all of the above
125. Loading means the addition of
A. resistor
B. capacitor
C. bullet
D. inductance
126. What is the most commonly used transmission line for high frequency application?
A. Two-wire balance line
B. Single wire
C. Three-wire line
D. Coaxial
127. The characteristic impedance of a transmission line does not depend upon its
A. length
B. conductor diameter
C. conductor spacing
D. dielectric material
128. One of the following is not a common transmission line impedance.
A. 50
B. 75
C. 120
D. 300

129. For maximum absorption of power at the antenna, the relationship between the characteristic impedance of
the line Zo and the load impedance ZL should be
A. Zo = ZL
B. Zo > ZL
C. Zo < ZL
D. Zo = 0
130. The mismatch between antenna and transmission line impedance cannot be corrected for by
A. using LC matching network
B. adjusting antenna length
C. using a balun
D. adjusting the length of transmission line
131. _____ is a pattern of voltage and current variations along a transmission line not terminated in its
characteristic impedance.
A. an electric field
B. radio waves
C. standing waves
D. a magnetic field
132. Which is the desirable SWR on a transmission line?
A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. infinity
133. A 50 coax is connected to a 73 antenna. What is the SWR?
A. 0.685
B. 1
C. 1.46
D. 2.92
134. What is the most desirable reflection coefficient?
A. 0
B. 0.5
C. 1
D. infinity
135. What is the ratio expressing the percentage of incident voltage reflected on a transmission line?
A. Velocity factor
B. Standing-wave ratio
C. Reflection coefficient
D. Line efficiency
136. The minimum voltage along a transmission line is 260 V, while the maximum is 390 V the SWR is
A. 0.67
B. 1.0
C. 1.2
D. 1.5

137. One meter is one wavelength at a frequency of

A. 150 MHz
B. 164 MHz
C. 300 MHz
D. 328 MHz
138. At very high frequencies, transmission line act as
A. tuned circuits
B. antennas
C. insulators
D. resistors
139. A shorted quarter-wave line at the operating frequency acts like a/an
A. capacitor
B. inductor
C. series resonant circuit
D. parallel resonant circuit
140. A shorted half-wave line at the operating frequency acts like a/an
A. capacitor
B. inductor
C. series resonant circuit
D. parallel resonant circuit
141. A medium least susceptible to noise
A. Shielded pair
B. Twisted pair
C. Fiber-optic
D. Coaxial
142. A medium most widely used in LANs?
A. Parallel-wire line
B. Twisted pair
C. Fiber-optic cable
D. Coaxial
143. The most commonly used transmission line in television system.
A. Parallel-wire line
B. Coaxial cable
C. Waveguide
D. Open-wire with ceramic supports
144. The impedance of a TV transmission line depends on several factors. Which is not one of those factors?
A. Diameter
B. Length of the wire
C. Dielectric material
D. Separation between conductors
145. DC blocks are used in coaxial transmission line for the purpose of
A. passing DC while blocking AC
B. passing AC voltage but prevent DC
C. preventing AC voltage from reaching the pre-amplifier
D. preventing AC power supply voltage from being shorted by a balun or band splitter

146. _____ is a type of interference caused by off-air TV channels 2 and 4, plus a satellite dish operating on channel
3.
A. Adjacent channel interference
B. Ghost
C. Co-channel interference
D. Crosstalk
147. Dithering (in TVRO communications) is a process for
A. reducing the effect of noise on the TVRO video signal
B. centering the video fine tuning on TVRO channels
C. moving the feedhorn rotor to the precise angle
D. moving the actuator exactly onto the desired satellite beam
148. A network that has an input of 75 dB and an output of 35 dB. The loss of the network is _____.
A. -40 dB
B. 40 dB
C. 40 dBm
D. -40 dBm
149. Important useful quantities describing waveforms.
A. Time and frequency
B. Voltage and current
C. Frequency and voltage
D. Power and frequency
150. Halving the power means
A. 6-dB gain
B. 3-dB loss
C. 3-dB gain
D. 6-dB loss
151. One neper (Np) is how many decibels
A. 8.866
B. 8.686
C. 8.688
D. 8.868
152. A signal is amplified 100 times in power. The dB gain is
A. 20 dB
B. 119 dB
C. 15 dB
D. 25 dB
153. Which of the following is used to measure SWR?
A. Spectrum analyzer
B. Reflectometer
C. Oscilloscpoe
D. Multimeter

154. 214-056 twin lead which is commonly used for TV lead-in has a characteristic impedance of
A. 52
B. 75
C. 600
D. 300
155. What is the characteristic impedance of a transmission line which is to act as a quarterwave matching
transformer between a 175 transmission line and 600 load?
A. 300.04
B. 324.04
C. 310.04
D. 320.04
156. What is the EIRP in dBW of a 50 dB antenna connected to transmitter with an output of 10 kW through a
transmission line with a loss of 5 dB?
A. 85 dBW
B. 955 dBW
C. 90 dBW
D. 80 dBW
157. A coaxial cable is a god example of a/an
A. unbounded medium
B. transmission channel
C. non-metallic medium
D. bounded medium
158. If a quarterwave transformer is required to match a 180 load to a transmission line with an impedance of
300 , what should be the characteristic impedance of the matching transformer is to be connected directly to
the load.
A. 180
B. 232
C. 300
D. 480
159. A transmitter of 100 W RF power output, 100% modulated is operating on a frequency of 169 MHz. The
antenna transmission line consists of a 50 coaxial cable, 150 ft long. The coaxial inner conductor outer
diameter is 0.162 in. Determine the outside diameter of the outer conductor if the outer conductor has a
thickness of 0.05 in (Assume k = 1).
A. 1.0 in
B. 0.9 in
C. 0.7 in
D. 0.5 in
160. In the preceding problem, calculate the line current.
A. 1.7 A
B. 1.3 A
C. 1.5 A
D. 1.0 A

161. Determine also the attenuation of the line in the preceding problem.
A. 2.0 dB
B. 1.5 dB
C. 2.5 dB
D. 1.0 dB
162. What is the maximum subscriber loop length, in ft, of a telephone system if the signalling resistance is 1800
using a telephone cable pair of gauge # 26 with a loop resistance if 83.5 per 100 ft. Assume the telephone
set resistance is equal to 200 .
A. 15,161.7 ft
B. 19,161 ft
C. 15,300 ft
D. 20,000 ft
163. If the same subscriber loop above limits the voice attenuation to a maximum of 6 dB, what is the maximum
allowable subscriber loop length, in ft, using the same gauge # 26 telephone wire? Assume a 2.7 dB loss per
mile.
A. 20,000 ft
B. 13,900 ft
C. 15,280 ft
D. 11,733 ft
164. The input is 0.1 W and the network gain is 13 dB, the output is
A. 2.0 W
B. 2.5 W
C. 1.5 W
D. 1.8 W
165. Known as one-tenth of neper
A. dB
B. dBm
C. dBp
D. dNp
166. The input impedance of a quarterwave short-circuited transmission line at its resonant frequency is
A. 0
B. infinite or open circuit
C.
D. 70
167. The ratio of the largest rms value to the smallest rms value of the voltage in the line is called
A. SWR
B. ISWR
C. VSWR
D. Coefficient of reflection
168. An open-wire, two-wire transmission line is to be connected to a dipole antenna through a quarter-wave
matching stub. At a frequency of 10 MHz, compute the length of the dipole.
A. 20 m
B. 7.5 m
C. 15 m
D. 25 m

169. From the preceding problem, compute also the length of the quarterwave stub
A. 15 m
B. 7.5 m
C. 20 m
D. 25 m
170. To find the characteristic impedance of a coaxial cable, measurements are made with (a) the far end open
circuited and (b) far end short circuited, the corresponding readings being
a) Ro = 3 and Xc = 55 , capacitive
b) Rs = 10 and XL = 90 , inductive
What is the characteristic impedance, Zo, of the line?
A. 75.7 j2.0
B. 70.7 + j1.19
C. 87.5 j5
D. 70.7 j1.97
171. A TV antenna receives a signal measured at 200 mV and is immediately amplified by a pre-amplifier with a 15
dB gain. This amplified signal then passes through a coaxial cable with 3 dB loss, what is the resulting input to
the TV set, in dBmV?
A. 1.98
B. 13.98
C. -1.98
D. -13.98
172. The characteristic impedance line does not depend upon its _____.
A. conductor spacing
B. conductor diameter
C. length
D. conductor radius
173. What does a power difference of -3 dB mean?
A. What does a power difference of -3 dB mean?
B. a loss of one half of the power
C. a loss of three watts of power
D. no significant change
174. Which of the following is an advantage of the balance transmission line?
A. Easy installation
B. Outer shield eliminates radiation losses
C. Low attenuation
D. None of these
175. Waveguides are used mainly for microwave transmission because
A. they are bulky at lower frequencies
B. losses are heavy at lower frequencies
C. they depend on straight line propagation
D. no generators are powerful enough to excite them
176. The input is 1 W and the network loss is 27 dB, the output is
A. 1 mW
B. 3 mW
C. 2 mW
D. 4 mW

177. A combiner has two inputs + 30 dBm and + 30 dBm, what is the resultant output?
A. + 36 dBm
B. + 30 dBm
C. + 60 dBm
D. + 33 dBm
178. The ratio of the smallest to the largest rms current value is called
A. SWR
B. VSWR
C. ISWR
D. Coefficient of reflection
179. If the ratio of the maximum current to minimum current in a transmission line is 2:1 then the ratio of
maximum voltage to minimum voltage is
A. 4:1
B. 1:2
C. 1:4
D. 2:1
180. Two wires of 600 characteristics impedance is to be constructed out of a number 12 wire (81 mils). Find the
attenuation of the line at 0.6 GHz per 100 feet length.
A. 0.05 dB
B. 0.55 dB
C. 0.44 dB
D. 0.35 dB
181. In the preceding problem, determine the spacing between wires from center to center.
A. 6 in
B. 4 in
C. 5 in
D. 3 in
182. A lossless transmission line has a shunt capacitance of 100 nF/m and a series inductance of 4 mH/m. What is
the characteristic impedance?
A. 500
B. 400
C. 300
D. 200
183. A ten times power change in transmission system is equivalent to
A. 10 dBm
B. 10 dB
C. 20 dB
D. 100 dB
184. A type of transmission line employed where balanced properties are required
A. Balun
B. Parallel-wire line
C. Coaxial line
D. Quarterwave line

185. What is the characteristic impedance of a transmission line has a capacitance of 40 nF/ft and an inductance of
0.5mH/ft
A. 111.8
B. 110.8
C. 112.8
D. 109.8
186. The input power to a loss-free cable is 5 W. If the reflected power is 7 dB down on the incident power, the
output power to the load is
A. 4 W
B. 5 W
C. 6 W
D. 7 W
187. To be properly matched the ratio of a maximum voltage along a transmission line should be equal to
A. 1
B. 10
C. 50
D. 2
188. A coaxial line with an outer diameter of 6 mm has a 50 characteristic impedance. If the dielectric constant of
the insulation is 1.60, calculate the inner diameter.
A. 2.09 cm
B. 2.09 in
C. 2.09 mm
D. 2.09 mm
189. If an amplifier has equal input and output impedances, what voltage ratio does the gain of 50 dB represent?
A. 316.2
B. 325.2
C. 320.1
D. 315.0
190. What is the inductance per foot of a cable that has a capacitance of 50 pF/ft and a characteristic impedance of
60 ?
A. 0.167 H/ft
B. 0.178 H/ft
C. 0.19 H/ft
D. 0.18 H/ft
191. The ratio between the energy absorbed by a surface to the total energy received by the surface.
A. Reflection coefficient
B. Absorption coefficient
C. Linear coefficient
D. Thermal coefficient
192. When the diameter of the conductors of a 2 wire transmission line is held constant, the effect of decreasing
the distance between the conductors is
A. increase the surge impedance
B. increase the radiation resistance
C. decrease the SWR
D. decrease the impedance

193. The higher the gauge number of a conductor

A. the bigger the diameter
B. the higher the resistance or the smaller the diameter
C. the higher the resistance
D. none of these
194. A short length of transmission line used to reduce/eliminate standing waves in the main transmission line.
A. Stub
B. Balun
C. /4 transformer
D. Slot
195. Ratio of reflected power to incident power?
A. Incidence
B. Reflectance
C. Reflection index
D. None of these
196. A quarter wave transformer is used to match a 600 load antenna to a line of 52 impedance, the
characteristic impedance of the matching transformer is
A. 200
B. 150
C. 176
D. 300
197. What is the capacitance of 55 miles #44 copper wire spaced 18 inches? From wire tables, #44 wire has a radius
to 0.10215 in.
A. 0.476 F
B. 0.476 nF
C. 0.476 pF
D. 0.476 fF
198. A two-wire transmission line consists of No. 12 wire AWG (81 mils). The distance between wire centers is 10
inches. What is the characteristic impedance of the line?
A. 650
B. 300
C. 600
D. 660
199. In the preceding problem, what is the attenuation in dB per 100 ft. of the line for a frequency of 4 MHz?
A. 0.05
B. 0.03
C. 0.04
D. 0.06
200. What is the SWR when a transmission line is terminated in a short circuit?
A. Zero
B. One
C. Infinite
D. Indeterminate