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E9A09

ANTENNAS AND TRANSMISSION LINES · Basic antenna parameters: radiation resistance, gain, beamwidth, efficiency; effective radiated power (ERP) and effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP)

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What is antenna efficiency?

  1. ARadiation resistance divided by transmission resistance
  2. BRadiation resistance divided by total resistance
  3. CTotal resistance divided by radiation resistance
  4. DEffective radiated power divided by transmitter output
Why Antenna current flows through two kinds of resistance: radiation resistance, which represents power actually launched as radio waves, and loss resistance from conductor resistance, ground losses, loading coil losses and nearby lossy objects. Efficiency is the fraction of input power that becomes radiation, so it equals radiation resistance divided by total resistance (radiation plus loss), usually expressed as a percent. A short 160 meter vertical might have 5 ohms radiation resistance and 15 ohms of loss, giving 5/20 = 25 percent efficiency.
Watch out The choice comparing effective radiated power to transmitter output is not efficiency because ERP already includes antenna gain over a dipole and feed line loss, so a high-gain array can show ERP far above transmitter output. Dividing total resistance by radiation resistance just inverts the formula and would give a number greater than 1.
Efficiency is a fraction less than 1, so the smaller piece (radiation resistance) goes on top of the total.
HamSandwich explanation, first draft. The question and answers are the NCVEC text.
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  1. E9A01 What is an isotropic radiator?
  2. E9A02 What is the effective radiated power (ERP) of a repeater station with 150 watts transmitter power output, 2 d…
  3. E9A03 What term describing total radiated power takes into account all gains and losses?
  4. E9A04 Which of the following factors affect the feed point impedance of an antenna?
  5. E9A05 What does the term "ground gain" mean?
  6. E9A06 What is the effective radiated power (ERP) of a repeater station with 200 watts transmitter power output, 4 d…
  7. E9A07 What is the effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP) of a repeater station with 200 watts transmitter power …
  8. E9A08 Which frequency band has the smallest first Fresnel zone?
  9. E9A09 What is antenna efficiency?
  10. E9A10 Which of the following improves the efficiency of a ground-mounted quarter-wave vertical antenna?
  11. E9A11 Which of the following determines ground losses for a ground-mounted vertical antenna operating on HF?
  12. E9A12 How much gain does an antenna have compared to a half-wavelength dipole if it has 6 dB gain over an isotropic…
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