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GATE EC : Communications - National Champion Test

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Question 1

What is the maximum possible power efficiency of AM signal?

Question 2

Consider the signal
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Question 3

A non linear device characterised by V0 = a Vi + b Vi3 where Vi = m(t) + Ac cos(2πf1t). What is the value of f1 in MHz if only DSB terms consider at output of device (given carrier frequency = 2 MHz)

Question 4

An AM signal and a narrow-band FM signal with identical carriers, modulating signals and modulation indices of 0.1 are added together. The resultant signal can be closely approximated by

Question 5

In this circuit, Vout is:
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Question 6

Following constellation diagram represents:
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Question 7

A source alphabet consists of N(even) symbols with the probability of all symbols being the same. A source encoder increases the probability of the first half symbol by a small amount e and decrease for other half by a small amount e. After encoding, the entropy of system.

Question 8

The minimum sampling frequency (in samples/sec) required to reconstruct the following signal from its samples without any distortion

Question 9

A sinusoidal signal of amplitude A is quantized by a uniform quantizer Assume that the signal utilizes all the representation levels of the quantizer. If the signal to quantization noise ratio is 31.8 dB the number of levels in the quantizer is _________-

Question 10

Let Q(√Y) be the BER of a BPSK system over an AWGN channel with two-sided noise power spectral density N0/2. The parameter γ is a function of bit energy and noise power spectral density.
A system with two independent and identical AWGN channels with noise power spectral density is shown in the figure. The BPSK demodulator receives the sum of outputs of both the channels.
If the BER of this system is Q(b√γ), then the value of b is _____.

Question 11

An Ideal power limited Communications channel with additive white Gaussian noise is having 4 KHz band width and Signal to Noise ratio of 255. The channel capacity is:

Question 12

A message m(t) band-limited to the frequency fmhas a power of Pm. The power of the output signal in the following figure is

Question 13

Let g(t) = p(t) * p(t), where * denotes convolution and p(t) = u(t) − u(t − 1) with u(t) being the unit step function

 Amplitude Modulated signal is given as
In the interval 0 ≤ t ≤1. One set of possible values of the modulating signal and modulation index would be

Question 14

Let g(t) = p(t) * p(t), where * denotes convolution and p(t) = u(t) − u(t − 1) with u(t) being the unit step function
The impulse response of matched filter output for the signal s(t) = g(t) – δ(t – 2) * g(t) is given as:

Question 15

Consider the following Amplitude Modulated (AM) signal, where fm < fc :
The average side band power for the AM signal given above is:

Question 16

Consider the following Amplitude Modulated (AM) signal, where fm < B:
The AM signal gets added to a noise with Power Spectral Density Sn(f) given in the figure below. The ratio of average sideband power to mean noise power would be:

Question 17

The signal m(t) as shown is applied both to a phase modulator (with kp as the phase constant) and a frequency modulator (with kf as the frequency constant) having the same earner frequency.

The ratio kp/kf (in rad/Hz) for the same maximum phase deviation is

Question 18

A carrier is phase modulated (PM) with frequency deviation of 10 kHz by a single tone frequency of 1 kHz. If the single tone frequency is increased to 2 kHz, assuming that phase deviation remains unchanged, the bandwidth of the PM signal is

Question 19

A message signal with bandwidth 10 kHz is Lower-Side Band SSB modulated with carrier frequency . The resulting signal is then passed through a Narrow-Band Frequency Modulator with carrier frequency . The bandwidth of the output would be:

Question 20

A carrier signal with fc and message signal with 5HZ is given to both AM and FM transmitter. It is founded that maximum frequency deviation of FM is twice the bandwidth of AM. Find modulation index of AM such that the strength of frequency component ‘fc + 5KHz’ is same in both AM and FM spectrum [given J1 (0) = 1, J1 (2) = 0.57, J1 (4) = 0.37]

Question 21

Consider the frequency modulated signal 
With carrier frequency of 105 Hz. The modulation index is

Question 22

In the following scheme, it the spectrum M(f) of m(t) is as shown, then the spectrum Y(f) of y(t) will be:

Question 23

Consider the frequency modulated signal with carrier frequency of 105 Hz. The modulation index is

Question 24

A superheterodyne receiver is to operate in the frequency range 550 kHz - 1650 kHz, with the intermediate frequency for 450 kHz. Let denotes the required capacitance ratio of the local oscillator and 1 denote the image frequency (in kHz) of the incoming signal. If the receiver is tuned to 700 kHz, then

Question 25

For a parallel RC circuit, as shown in the figure, R = 20 Q and C = 0.9 pF, which is to be matched to 50 Q over a bandwidth,
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The circuit has to be matched over 6 GHz to 18 GHz. What is the very best τ that can be achieved:

Question 26

For this RF Circuit, the correct statement is:
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Question 27

The amplitude of a random signal is uniformly distributed between -5 V and 5 V.
If the positivevalues of the signal are uniformly quantized with a step size of 0.05 V, and the negative values are uniformly quantized with a step size of 0.1 V, the resulting signal to quantization noise ratio is approximately

Question 28

In a Direct Sequence CDMA system the chip rate is 1.2288 ×106 chips per second. If the processing gain is desired to be AT LEAST 100, the data rate

Question 29

Four messages band limited to W, W, 2W and 3W respectively are to be multiplexed using Time Division Multiplexing (TDM). The minimum bandwidth required for transmission of this TDM signal is

Question 30

In a GSM system, 8 channels can co-exist in 200 KHz bandwidth using TDMA. A GSM based cellular operator is allocated 5 MHz bandwidth. Assuming a frequency reuse factor of 1/5 i.e. a five cell repeat pattern, the maximum number of simultaneous channels that can exist in one cell is:
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