Diploma Previous Year Question paper EL-206

WAVE PROPAGATION & COMMUNICATION ENGG.

Questions of 2012

1.     (i)   What is the difference between AM & PAM?
(ii)  How ground wave propagation takes place
(iii) What do you mean by radiation pattern & bandwidth of an antenna?
(iv) Write down disadvantages of FM & AM.
(v)  What are the causes & effects of solar noise?

2.    (i)   Explain need of modulation in a radio communication system. Classify various modulation schemes.
(ii)  Discuss the concept of skip distance & MUF in ionosphere propagation

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3.     (i)   Explain operating principle of a log periodic antenna. Why is the bandwidth of log periodic antenna much greater than YAGI antenna?
(ii)  (a) Derive the relation between the output power of an AM transmitter
            and its modulation index
      (b) An 400 watt carrier is AM modulated to a depth of 75 %. Calculate
            the total power in the modulated wave.

4.     (i)  Explain with the help of block diagram, the Armstrong method of
      generating FM signal.
(ii) Define noise. Give the classification and explain various types of noise.

5.     (i)  Draw block diagram of FM receiver and explain its working.
(ii) Explain working of a BJT collector amplitude modulator with suitable
       circuit diagram.

6.     (i)  What is space wave propagation? Why is this limited to line of sight
      distance? Derive formula for range of space wave propagation.
(ii) Define PAM, PWM and PCM.

7.     (i)  Define effective aperture of an antenna. Derive relationship between
      maximum effective aperture and antenna again.
(ii) Derive the formula for the instantaneous value of an FM voltage and
     Define the modulation index (mf). What is transmission band width for
     FM.

8.     Write short notes on any two:
(i)                Parabolic antenna.
(ii)              Super heterodyne Receiver.
(iii)            Balanced modulator using diode.

Questions of 2011

1.     (i)   What are different types of transmission lines?
(ii)  Explain what is meant by traveling wave and standing wave.
(iii) What do you mean by fading?
(iv) Define Directive gain of an antenna.
(v)  Explain in brief the term – polarization

2.     (i)   Define Reflection, Refraction and polarization of Electromagnetic wave.
(ii)  State Maxwell equation in free space.

3.     (i)   What is SWR in transmission line and how it is eliminated by stub
      matching?
(ii)  Explain the behavior of open circuited and closed circuited transmission
       lines.

4.     (i)   A high frequency radio link has to be established between two points at
       a distance of 2500 km on earth’s surface. Considering ionospheric
       height to be 200 km and its critical frequency, 5 MHz . Calculate MUF
       for given path.
(ii)  Derive the expression for characteristic impedance (Z0), attenuation
      constant ( ), velocity of propagation (Vp) and wavelength ( ) of
      transmission line in terms of primary constant.

5.     (i)   Define Voltage Standing Wave Ratio (VSWR) for a terminated
      transmission line. Under what loading condition VSWR will be unity and
      infinite.
(ii)  Explain antenna efficiency (n), beam width and radiation resistance
       with reference to antenna.

6.     (i)   Give difference between Broadside array and Endfire array.
(ii)  R = 100
     The value of primary constants of an open wire line per km are R = 100 ,
     C = 0.008  for f = 1kHz. Find:
a)     Propagation constant (P)
b)    Characteristic Impedance (Z0)

7.     (i)   Explain slotted line method (VSWR method ) of input impedance
        measurement of antenna at high frequency.
(ii)  Explain principle of pattern and find array factor of two element array.

8.     Write short note on following (Any two):
(i)                Yagi – Uda antenna
(ii)              Line of sight distance.

(iii)            Log periodic antenna


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