Question: What characteristic of the conductor changes the amount of reactance?
Answer: diameter

Question: What characteristic would be better if it were steady?
Answer: reactance

Question: What would be used to create a half wave or quarter wave dipole?
Answer: A long thin wire

Question: What type of tubes are generally used for sturdier always of antennas?
Answer: thick tubes

Question: What effect do cages have on the spectrum of usable frequencies?
Answer: widens

Question: What type of tubes are generally used for sturdier always of antennas?
Answer: cages

Question: How could one achieve the task of creating an antenna that can be Used over various bands?
Answer: connecting resonant elements

Question: What is an essential for dealing with directing the flow of power?
Answer: trap's

Question: What is an acknowledgement of the range of possible direction for and antenna?
Answer: gain

Question: What is another way to refer to an antennas gain?
Answer: power gain

Question: What is the meaning of intensity?
Answer: power per unit surface area

Question: What type of an antenna would offer the same level of power to each possible destination?
Answer: isotropic

Question: Antennas with higher gain have what positive feature?
Answer: longer range

Question: What is a measure of how much efficient is improved by adding a device designed to make something stronger?
Answer: amplifier gain

Question: Dish network Tv takes example of what type of antenna?
Answer: parabolic dish

Question: What type of antenna would be best if placement was tricky?
Answer: Low-gain

Question: What must the relationship of an antenna and the receiving area be due to reciprocity?
Answer: proportional

Question: what could an antenna with complete electrical efficiency be said to have?
Answer: no loss

Question: Another term for the effective area is?
Answer: Aeff

Question: hat could an antenna with complete electrical efficiency be said to have?
Answer: 1

Question: A plot of the radiation behaviors of an antenna would show what?
Answer: relative field strength

Question: What type of pictoral aid is often used to show this?
Answer: three-dimensional graph

Question:  A sphere shows what type of antennas radiation?
Answer: isotropic

Question: Dipoles are considered to be what antenna type?
Answer: nondirectional

Question: What would an omnidirectional antenna look like if plotted?
Answer: donut

Question: What is the term that refers to areas where an antennas radiation is zero? 
Answer: nulls

Question: What do radio waves do that account for maxima or nulls in an antenna pattern?
Answer: interfere

Question: If you desired to project radio waves to the south, what part of the antenna would you build larger in that direction?
Answer: lobe

Question: What is the main distinction of side lobes?
Answer: represent unwanted radiation

Question: What is one piece that makes up an antenna system?
Answer: radio

Question: What is created by a portion of a radio waves energy reversing?
Answer: standing wave

Question: A term that refers to the highs and lows of power in electro magnetic waves is?
Answer: standing wave ratio

Question: Impedance matching makes an important difference in what antenna function?
Answer: power transfer

Question: A measure of the power that is useable and the power absorbed by the terminals?
Answer: Efficiency

Question: What happens to the power that is not absorbed by the antenna?
Answer: heat

Question: What can cause that reaction?
Answer: magnetic core losses

Question: What can cause that reaction?
Answer: transmitter

Question: What would need to be placed into the transmitter to create ten W oh warmth? 
Answer: 100 W

Question: What would need to be investigated to determine how much power was radiated?
Answer: electrical measurements

Question: What factor may play a hand in lessened power from a transmitter?
Answer: impedance matching

Question: What can increase the feedpoint impedance of a component?
Answer: loss resistance

Question: The addition of Rr and Rloss equals what?
Answer: resistance

Question: What equation an determine an antennas effectiveness?
Answer: Rr / (Rr + Rloss)

Question: What is the single factor that can be precisely measured?
Answer: total resistance

Question: What is the median level for measuring atmospheric noise?
Answer: thermal noise floor

Question: In what type of programs would low efficiency antennas not make a difference in effectiveness?
Answer: receiving

Question: At lesser frequencies what can account for incorrect assumptions about efficiency?
Answer: man-made noise

Question: What is SNR?
Answer: signal to noise ratio

Question: What else is also known as power gain?
Answer: antenna gain

Question: What is used to signal toward a reciever?
Answer: transmitter

Question: Which gain does not iclude the effect of an antenna?
Answer: directive gain

Question: Wats divided by the antennas efficiency?
Answer: published gain

Question: Small and minimal frequency antennas are know to be what?
Answer: inefficient

Question: What is added to to increase ability for reception?
Answer: small loop antenna

Question: How would this antenna rate in the greater scheme of things?
Answer: little effect

Question: When talking about much larger network what effect can reduced antenna effectiveness have?
Answer: substantial cost

Question: How many polarizations will a antenna have when mounted vertically?
Answer: one

Question: What is another name for electric-field?
Answer: E-plane

Question: When is a magnetic fields right angles to a electrical field?
Answer: transverse wave

Question: Whats understood in reference of direction of an E-plane?
Answer: polarization

Question: What mostly affects polarization?
Answer: Reflections

Question: What reflector can change the waves polarization?
Answer: ionosphere

Question: What will you be matching with the  receiving antenna's polarization?
Answer: transmitter

Question: What stays the same regarding polarization state at the recieving location?
Answer: polarized transmissions

Question: What is the name used for signals recieved following reflection by the ionosphere?
Answer: a skywave

Question: Whats predictable about an antenna's geometry?
Answer: Polarization

Question: The polarization of what antenna is essential specification?
Answer: commercial antenna

Question: Most rooftop antenna's are polarized in which direction?
Answer: horizontal

Question: What is a more complicated type of polarization from an antenna's geometry?
Answer: quad antenna

Question: What are electrical fields projected on to?
Answer: imaginary plane

Question: What is the imagenary plane perpindicular to?
Answer: radio wave

Question: What is the name to describe polarization of radio waves varies over times?
Answer: elliptical

Question: How many directions does the E-plane of the radio waves oscillates back and forth?
Answer: one direction

Question: What is the best for an recieving antenna for optimum reception?
Answer: match the polarization

Question: What loses signal strength?
Answer: Intermediate matchings

Question: What is used to match vertical and horizontal linear polarizations?
Answer: circularly polarized

Question: A transmission can cause reduction in what?
Answer: signal-to-noise ratio

Question: What requires matching of the empedance to an antenna system?
Answer: Maximum power transfer

Question: Why would a transmitter have additional adjustments?
Answer: "tweak" the match

Question: What is SWR?
Answer: standing wave ratio

Question: What is the desired design value for transmmiting circuitry?
Answer: 50 ohms

Question: What can be shorter than 1/4 wavelength long?
Answer: whip antenna

Question: What is the opposite of inductive reactance?
Answer: capacitative reactance

Question: What is at the base of the antenna?
Answer: loading coil

Question: Where is the resistance seen on the loading foil?
Answer: feedpoint