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Post subject: RF question

Unread postPosted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 12:42 pm

A television receiver tuned to a channel at 220 MHz comprises a front end

amplifier (G = 18 dB, F = 2.5 dB), mixer (G = 16 dB, F = 12 dB) and IF

amplifier (F = 2 dB, Bn = 6 MHz). It is connected to an antenna of gain 6 dB

via 15m of 300 ohm ribbon lead with an attenuation of 0.12 dB/m. Calculate

(a) The noise figure of the receiver.

(b) The signal (in mV) at the antenna terminals required to produce an

output signal to noise ratio of 40 dB for (i) a suburban area, (i) a

quiet semi-rural area.

(c) The corresponding electric field strength in the neighbourhood of

the antenna.

(d) The improvement in S/N (for both cases (i) and (ii) above) which

would result from

- replacing the ribbon cable with a polyfoam cable, attenuation

0.04 dB/m

- leaving the cable the same, but fitting another antenna with a

gain of 10 dB

- leaving the cable and antenna as originally and fitting a masthead

amplifier with F = 2 dB and G = 20 dB.

Assume in each case that the signal field strength is the same.

Anyone gives some hints for solving this question

thanks in advance.

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Guest

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Unread postPosted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 9:20 pm

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Rod

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Unread postPosted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 3:02 am

Do I have to show my work?

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Noyade

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Unread postPosted: Wed May 18, 2005 10:07 pm

Start with the cascaded Noise Factor calculation...

Ftotal = 1 + F1 + F2/G1 + F3/(G1*G2) + F4/(G1*G2*G3) + ...

Posted  11/12/2012