Chapter 18: Terrestrial Microwave Communication Systems
Chapter 18: Terrestrial Microwave Communication Systems
TRUE/FALSE
ANS: T
ANS: F
ANS: T
ANS: T
ANS: F
ANS: T
7. Because of reliability, microwave links typically suffer about one hour of "downtime" a month.
ANS: F
ANS: T
ANS: T
ANS: F
ANS: T
12. The "line-of-sight" distance for microwaves is about a third longer than it is for visible light.
ANS: T
13. Diffraction is not an issue with microwave links.
ANS: F
14. Antenna height for microwave links must be below the "Fresnel zone".
ANS: F
15. For analog microwave systems, the carrier-to-noise ratio must exceed a certain minimum.
ANS: T
16. For microwave links, it is more convenient to use noise temperature than noise figure.
ANS: T
17. For digital microwave links, energy per bit is a key parameter.
ANS: T
ANS: F
ANS: F
ANS: T
21. Compensation for fading due to multipath reception is usually done using "diversity".
ANS: T
22. Diversity can be achieved by mounting two antennas on a tower, one above the other.
ANS: T
ANS: T
24. Repeaters typically receive a signal and retransmit it on the same frequency.
ANS: F
ANS: T
ANS: T
MULTIPLE CHOICE
13. The effects of fading due to multipath reception are often reduced using:
a. diversity c. high-gain antennas
b. power d. all of the above
ANS: A
COMPLETION
ANS: hop
ANS: studio
3. A typical microwave system has about one hour per ____________________ or less of
downtime.
ANS: year
ANS: jitter
ANS: temperature
6. In digital microwave systems, the energy per bit per ____________________ is a key parameter.
ANS: fading
8. Two antennas stacked one above the other on a tower is an example of ____________________
diversity in a microwave system.
ANS: space
ANS: diversity
10. Microwave systems generally use less than ____________________ watts of power.
ANS: ten
11. ____________________ are necessary in a microwave system that extends beyond the line-of-
sight distance.
ANS: Repeaters
ANS: baseband
ANS: noise
ANS: LMDS
SHORT ANSWER
1. If the line-of-sight distance for an optical beam is 12 km, what would it be, approximately, for a
microwave beam?
ANS:
16 km
ANS:
16.4 meters
3. A transmitter and receiver operating at 1 GHz are separated by 10 km. How many dBm of power
gets to the receiver if the transmitter puts out 1 Watt, and both the sending and receiving antennas
have a gain of 20 dBi?
ANS:
–42.4 dBm
4. A microwave system has a feed-line loss of 2 dB and sees a sky temperature of 150 K. Calculate
the noise temperature of the antenna/feed-line system referenced to the receiver input.
ANS:
201 K
5. A microwave receiver receives –60 dBm of signal. The noise power is –100 dBm. What is the
carrier-to-noise power ratio?
ANS:
40 dB