1.

Electromagnetic waves with frequencies that range from approximately _____ to ____ or more
2. The wavelengths for microwave frequencies, which is than ______.
3. The name given to microwave signals, because of their inherently _____, have _____.
4. Each frequency is divided in half with the ____ identified as the ____ and the _____ as ____.
5. Communications system used to carry information for relatively ______ such as between cities
with the same state.
6. Microwave systems that is used to carry information for relatively ______, such as interstate
and ______ applications.
7. It propagates signals through Earth’s atmosphere between transmitters and receivers often
located on top of tower spaced about ______ to ______ apart.
8. Propagates signals _____ the Earth’s atmosphere and are capable of carrying signals much
_____while utilizing fewer transmitters and receivers.
9. It is used in microwave radio systems rather than _______ because AM signals are more
sensitive to amplitude ______ inherent in wideband microwave amplifiers.
10. Major factor when designing FM Radio systems. It is caused by repeater amplitude nonlinearity
in AM, while in FM, it is caused by ______ and ______.
11. The ________ that modulates the FM carrier
12. It provides an _______ in amplitude to the higher baseband frequencies
13. Frequency modulation index used in the FM deviator. Typically, modulation indices are kept
between ___ and ____.
14. FM signal that is produces at the output of the ______ with a low-index frequency modulation.
15. A receiver and a transmitter placed back to back or in ______ with the system.
16. It receives a signal, amplifies and ______ it, and then retransmit the signal to the next repeater
or ______ down line from it.
17. The received _____ is down-converted to an ______, amplified, reshaped, up-converted to an
_______, and then retransmitted.
18. Generally, less than ______.
19. The range id _____ to ______.
20. Another name for a ______, is considerably _____ in frequency than either the received or the
transmitted radio frequencies
21. Transmission used by microwave systems wherein a _______ must exist between the transmit
receive antennas.
22. A __________ in signal strength which last in milliseconds for several hours or even days.
23. It suggests that there is more than one __________ or method of transmission available a
transmitter and a receiver.
24. It is simply modulating two different __________ with the same ________, then transmitting
both RF signals to a given destination.
25. The output of a transmitter is fed to two or more antennas that are _________ by an
appreciable number of wavelengths.
26. A _____ RF carrier is propagated with two different electromagnetic polarizations. It is generally
used in conjunction with ______
27. It is more than one receiver for a single radio-frequency channel. With ________, it is necessary
to also use _________ because each transmitted frequency requires its own receiver.
28. Another form of ________ and undoubtly provides the most _____ transmission but most
_____. It combines frequency, space, polarization and receiver diversity into one system.
29. A specialized form of diversity that consist of a standard frequency diversity path where the two
transmitter/ receiver pairs at one end of the path are separated from each other and connected
to different antennas that are _____ separated as in ____ diversity.
30. Alternate facilities temporarily made to avoid a service interruption during periods of ______ or
______.
31. A single backup channel is made available to as many as ___working channels.
32. In ______ protection, it splits the signal power and directs it to the _____ and the spare
(standby) microwave channels simultaneously
33. It has two working channels, one _______, and an _____ channel.
34. A _________ microwave radio that is designed to be used for a ______ channel only
35. It is where the number of repeater stations between _______ depends.
36. Points in the system where ______ signals either originate or terminate
37. Points in a system where baseband signals may be reconfigured or where RF carriers are simply
“________” or amplified.
38. Stands for ___________, it serves as the interface between the multiplex terminal equipment
and the ______ equipment.
39. A ___________ that, when used in conjunction with a microwave generator, power amplifier,
and band-pass filter, up-converts the IF carrier to an RF carrier and amplifies the RF to the
desired output power.
40. It must be capable of amplifying _____ frequencies and passing ____ bandwidth signals for
_____ radios.
41. It provides the RF carrier input to the up-converter. It is called as ________ rather than an
oscillator because it is difficult to construct a stable circuit that will oscillate in the ______range.
42. It operates in the range ____ to _____, used to provide a base frequency that is multiplied up to
the desired ______ frequency.
43. A _______ device often made from _________. It used in conjunction with a channelcombining
network to prevent the output of one transmitter from interfering with the output of another
transmitter.
44. Stands for _______, is a circuit in an _______.
45. It occurs only when _____ stations are placed in a ______ straight line in the system.
46. It prevents the power that “_____” out the back and sides of a transmit antenna from
interfering with the signal entering the input of a nearby receive antenna.
47. The signal entering the ______ of a nearby receive antenna.
48. It means that this channels are propagated with _________.
49. The line-of-sight directly between the transmit and receive antenna. Also called as the ________
50. It consists of the electric and magnetic fields associated with the ____ induced in earth’s surface
51. The portion of the transmit signal that is ______ Earth’s surface and captured by the receive
antenna.
52. The portion of the transmit signal that is returned back to Earth’s surface by the ______ layers
of earth’s atmosphere.
53. The loss incurred by an ______ as it propagates in a straight line through a ____ with no
absorption or reflection of energy from nearby objects
54. A phenomenon wherein electromagnetic energy is _____ as it propagates away from the source
resulting in ______ relative power densities.
55. The reduction in signal strength at the ____ to a receiver
56. The difference between the _______output power of a transmitter and the ______ input power
to a receiver necessary to achieve satisfactory performance
57. Sometimes called as ________, is essentially a “_______” included in system gain equations that
considers the non-ideal and less predictable characteristics of radio wave propagation and
terrain sensitivity.
58. He described ways of calculating _______ due to fading on a non diversity path as a function of
terrain, climate, path length, and fade margin, in _______.
59. From ______, he derived formulas for calculating the effective improvement achievable by
vertical space diversity as a function of the spacing distance, path length, and frequency in ____
60. The ratio of the wideband “_____” to the wideband noise ____.
61. Also called _______, is the _____ wide band carrier power at the input to a receiver that will
provide a usable baseband output.
62. A ratio of input signal-to-noise ratio to ______ to ______.
63. The noise factor stated in ___ and is a parameter commonly used to indicate the quality of a
receiver