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Question 356

What causes reflected power at an antenna’s feed point?

  1. Operating an antenna at its resonant frequency
  2. Using more transmitter power than the antenna can handle
  3. A difference between feed line impedance and antenna feed point impedanceCorrect answer
  4. Feeding the antenna with unbalanced feed line

Explanation

A load equal to the line's characteristic impedance absorbs all the incident power; any departure from that value reflects part of the wave back down the line. Resonance alone does not guarantee a match, since a resonant antenna can still present a feed point resistance far from the line impedance.

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Question 356: What causes reflected power at an antenna’s feed point? · FCC General Class (Element 3) · Questena