PROBLEMAS DE ANTENAS
Profesor: Lácides Ripoll S
1. An antenna located in a city is a source of radio waves. How
much time does it take the wave to reach a town 12,000 km
away from the city?
2. ¿Cuál es la resistencia de radiación de un alambre muy
delgado de longitud λ/100?
3. A Hertzian ( infinitesimal) dipole at the origin in free space has
l = 20 cm and I= 10 cos(2 107 t ) A, find ƖE𝛳Ɩ at the distant point
(100, 30°, 10° ).
4. ¿Cuál es la longitud de una antena monopolo de landa cuarto
la cual está operando en el aire a una frecuencia de 1 MHz?.
5. .A 1m long car radio antenna operates in the AM frequency of
1.5 MHz. ¿How much current is required to transmit 4 W of
power?
6. An antenna can be modeled as an electric dipole of length 5 m
at 3 MHz. Find the radiation resistance of the antenna
assuming a uniform current ( I=Io coswt) over its length.
7. La magnitud del campo eléctrico a una distancia de 8 Km de
una antena infinitesimal es de12 µV/m. ¿Cuál es la magnitud
del campo eléctrico a una distancia de 20Km de la antena?
8. A receiving antenna in an airport has a maximum dimension of
3 m and operates at 100 MHz. An aircraft approaching the
airport is 1/2 km from the antenna. ¿The aircraft is in the far
field region of the antenna?
9. An antenna receives a power of 2 µW from a radio station.
Calculate its effective area if the antenna is located in the far
zone of the station where E = 50 mV/m
10. Determine the maximum effective area of a Hertzian dipole of
length 10 cm operating at 10 MHz. ¿If the antenna receives 3 µW of
power, what is the power density of the incident wave?
[Link] the maximum effective area of a half-wave dipole operating at
30 MHz.¿ How much power is received with an incident plane wave of
strength 2 mV/m?.
12. A receiving antenna is located 100 m away from the transmitting
antenna. If the effective area of the receiving antenna is 500 cm² and
the power density at the receiving location is 2 mW/m²,¿How much
power is received ?
13. A half-wave dipole fed by a 50-0 transmission line, calculate the
reflection coefficient and the standing wave ratio.
14. An antenna located on the surface of a flat earth transmits an
average power of 200 kW. Assuming that all the power is radiated
uniformly over the surface of a hemisphere with the antenna at the
center, calculate (a) the time-average Poynting vector at 50 km, and
(b) the maximum electric field at that location.
15. Sketch the normalized E-field and H-field patterns for a half-wave
dipole.
16. In free space, an antenna has a far-zone field given by
5 sin 2𝛳 −𝑗βr
𝐸= 𝑒 𝑎𝛳 𝑉/𝑚
𝑟
Determine the radiated power.
17. For an Hertzian (infinitesimal) dipole, show that the time-average
power density is related to the radiation power according to
1.5𝑠𝑒𝑛2 𝛳
𝑃𝑎𝑣𝑔 = 𝑃𝑟𝑎𝑑
4 𝑟 2
18. The gain of an antenna is 34 dBi. If the antenna radiates 7.5 kW at
a distance of 40 km, find the time-average power density at that
distance.
[Link] transmitting and receiving antennas are separated by a
distance of 200 landas and have gains of 25 and 18 dBi, respectively.
If 5 mW of power is to be received, calculate the minimum transmitted
power.
20. Two identical antennas in an anechoic chamber are separated by
12 m and are oriented for maximum gain. At a frequency of 5 GHz, the
power received by one is 30 dB down from that transmitted by the
other. Calculate the gain of the antennas in dBi.
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