1. The first passive satellite 8. A high power tube used in a.

C band and X band

a. Telstar transmission of RF signal uplink b. X band and S band
b. Early Bird a. Magnetron c. C band and Ku band
c. Sputnik I b. Klystron d. S band and Ku band
d. Moon c. BWO
d. TWT 15. At present, the RF band mainly
2. The first active satellite used by most satellites is
a. Sputnik I 9. A stage in transponder and a. EHF
b. Telstar downlink system which amplifies the b. UHF
c. INTELSAT I signal and ensuring that noise is c. SHF
d. Explorer I suppressed as possible d. VHF
a. Mixer
3. The first geostationary satellite b. Demodulator 16. The required antenna size
launched in 1965 is c. LNA __________ as the operating
a. Syncom I d. IF amplifier frequency of a system increases,
b. Sputnik I assuming that antenna gain
c. Explorer I 10. A transponder is a satellite remains unchanged.
d. Early Bird equipment which a. Remains the same
a. Receives a signal from earth b. Increases
4. The average lifetime of station and amplifies it c. Decreases
geosynchronous satellites is about b. Changes the frequency of the d. All of the above
__________ years. received signal
a. 5 c. Retransmit the received signal 17. A 20-m antenna gives a certain up-
b. 10 d. All of the above link gain at frequencies of 4/6 GHz.
c. 15 For getting the same gain in 20/30
d. 20 11. Multiple repeaters in GHz band, antenna size requires
communications satellites are __________ meters.
5. A communication satellite is a known as a. 100
repeater between a. Transponders b. 4
a. A transmitting station and receiving b. Detectors c. 1
station c. Modulators d. 10
b. Many transmitting stations and d. Transceivers
many receiving stations 18. Orbital disturbances of a
c. A transmitting station and many 12. Satellite-to-satellite link is also geosynchronous satellite are
receiving stations called caused by
d. Many transmitting stations and a a. Uplink a. Moon
receiving station b. Downlink b. Sun
c. Crosslink c. Earth
6. One of the main applications of d. Weakest link d. All of the above
satellite communications is
monitoring the ecological situation 13. The expression for satellite link 19. Geosynchronous satellites
of the earth. This is known as frequencies such as 14/12 GHz a. Has the same period as that of the
a. Navigation denotes that earth
b. Surveillance a. 12 GHz is the uplink frequency and b. Has a circular obit
c. Remote control 14 GHz is the downlink frequency c. Rotates in the equatorial plane
d. Remote sensing b. the system is operating at a mean d. All of the above
frequency of 13 Ghz
7. What vacuum tube used to amplify c. 14 GHz is the uplink frequency 20. To cover all inhabited regions of
RF signal for transmission through and 12 GHz is the downlink the earth, the number of
the downlink to station receiver? frequency geosynchronous satellites required
a. Magnetron d. the 14 GHz frequency is backup for is
b. Klystron 12 GHz frequency or vice versa a. 5
c. Twystron b. 10
d. TWT 14. The most widely used microwave c. 2
bands for commercial applications d. 3
are
21. A geostationary satellite is one c. Equatorial orbit 34. The earth's area or region that the
which d. Declined orbit satellite can receive from or transmit
a. Hangs motionless in space about to
36,000 km above the earth 28. The farthest point a satellite can a. Footprint
b. Travels around the earth about 24 reach is b. Skip zone
hrs. a. Apogee c. Primary area
c. Remains stationary above the earth b. Perigee d. Finger print
d. Appears stationary above the c. Altitude
earth d. Attitude 35. Satellite radiation pattern that
covers 1/3 of the earth's surface
22. Geosynchronous Communication 29. Include all earth stations within line- a. Earth
satellites travel around the earth in of-sight path of a satellite b. Zonal
circular orbits with forward speed of a. Satellite shadow c. Spot
about __________km/hr. b. Earth shadow d. Global
a. 100,000 c. Zonal
b. 36,000 d. Global 36. A satellite position is measured by
c. 11,200 its _________ angle with respect to
d. 22,800 30. The different multiple accesses the horizon.
which permit many satellite users to a. Elevation
23. The period of the satellite is operate in parallel through b. Depression
a. The amount of time it takes for a a. A Single Transponder Without c. Azimuth
satellite to complete one orbit Interfering With Each other are d. Incidence
b. The point on an orbit where b. FDMA
satellite to complete one orbit c. TDMA 37. The _________ angle measures
c. The time it takes the satellite to d. CDMA the satellite position clockwise from
travel from perigee to apogee e. All of the above the direction of true North
d. An orbital arc that extends from 60 a. Elevation
degrees west longitude to 145 31. A digital technology that uses a low b. Depression
degrees west longitude power signal spread across a wide c. Azimuth
bandwidth. With this technology, a d. Incidence
24. What is the satellite's period phone call is assigned a code
orbiting in a circular pattern with instead of a certain frequency. 38. GPS has a total number satellites
elevation of 1000 km? Using identifying code and a low equal to
a. 1 hr 45 mins power signal, a large number of a. 12
b. 2 hrs 45 mins channels can used the entire b. 24
c. 2 hrs 30 mins bandwith c. 36
d. 3 hrs a. TDMA d. 48
b. PCDMA
25. A satellite, orbiting in a circular c. PMA 39. How many elliptical orbits does
orbit, d. CDMA Navstar GPS have?
a. Has constant velocity 32. The use of the same frequency on a. 5
b. Has varying velocity the same geographical area b. 6
c. Is not moving at all a. Frequency reuse c. 7
d. Both a and b b. Roaming d. 8
c. Homing
26. What is a descending pass for a d. Cellular 40. What is the free space attenuation
satellite? of a satellite system operating at
a. A pass from west to east 33. In selecting a satellite system, the 36,000 km above the earth
b. A pass from east to west first determining factor is operating at 5 GHz?
c. A pass from south to north a. Coverage area a. 180 dB
d. A pass from north to south b. EIRP b. 190 dB
c. Antenna size c. 198 dB
27. Satellite rotating in an orbit takes it d. Antenna gain d. 189 dB
over the north and south poles is in
a. Inclined orbit
b. Polar orbit
41. The FDMA technique wherein d. To act as a receiving antenna for
voice band channels are assigned 47. The actual user information broadcast AM
on “as needed" basis. conveyed through the satellite
a. PAMA system 54. What do you call of a satellite used
b. DAMA a. Bus transmission to provide satellite services within a
c. SSMA b. Payload single country?
d. CDMA c. Prograde a. Orbital satellite
d. Retrograde b. Geostationary satellite
42. A satellite equipped with electronic c. Non-synchronous satellite
devices to receive, amplify, convert, 48. The spatial separation between d. Domestic satellite
and retransmit signals. geosynchronous satellites
a. Passive a. 1-3 degrees 55. A satellite beam that covers almost
b. Active b. 3-6 degrees 42.5% of the earth's surface.
c. Uplink c. 6-8 degrees a. Zone beam
d. Downlink d. 8-10 degrees b. Hemispheric beam
c. Spot beam
43. An earth station transmits signal to 49. The footprint which covers a very d. Global beam
a satellite 38,500 km, directly small geographical area. 56. The first Philippine satellite has
overhead it. What is the propagation a. Spot coverage how many channels?
delay when the signal is received b. Zonal coverage a. 30
back at the same earth station, in c. Earth coverage b. 24
milliseconds? d. Regional coverage c. 48
a. 257 d. 50
b. 200 50. The satellite frequency reuse
c. 285 method which sends different 57. Aguila I has how many
d. 185 information signals using vertical or transponders?
horizontal electromagnetic a. 36
44. A satellite communication link polarization b. 48
between Pinugay Earth Station, a. Multiple coverage areas c. 24
Philippines and Mt. Fucino Earth b. Dual polarization d. 12
Station, Italy is to be established. If c. Spatial separation
the assigned uplink frequency at d. Spread spectrum 58. How many satellite orbital slots
Pinugay Earth Station is 6175 MHz, were requested by the Philippine
what is the downlink frequency at 51. __________ detects the satellite Government from ITU?
Mt. Fucino Earth Station, in MHz? signal relayed from the feed and a. 2
a. 4545 converts it to an electric current, b. 4
b. 3950 amplifies and lower its frequency. c. 6
c. 3789 a. Feedhorn d. 8
d. 4200 b. Satellite dish
c. Satellite receiver 59. The most common device used as
45. "The orbit of any planet is an d. LNA an LNA is
ellipse with the sun at one focus". a. Zener diode
This is 52. Satellites used for intercontinental b. Tunnel diode
a. Kepler's First Law communications are known as c. IMPATT diode
b. Kepler's Second Law a. Comsat d. Shockley diode
c. Kepler's Third Law b. Domsat
d. Law of universal Gravitation c. Marisat 60. The radiation patterns of earth
d. Intelsat coverage antennas have a
46. When a satellite orbits in the beamwidth of approximately
opposite direction as the earth's 53. What is the basic function of a a. 21degrees
rotation with an angular velocity less communications satellite? b. 5 degrees
than that of the earth a. To act as a receiving antenna for c. 17 degrees
a. Orbital broadcast FM d. 35 degrees
b. Prograde b. To compensate for the antenna
c. Retrograde limitations 61. The main power sources for
d. Geostationary c. To eliminate aerodynamic drag satellites are
a. Batteries a. Passive
b. Solar cells b. Active
c. Fuel cells c. Geostationary
d. Thermoelectric generators d. Posigrade

62. What is the common up-converter 69. What is the line joining the
and down-converter IF? ascending and descending nodes
a. 36 MHz through the center of the earth?
b. 40 MHz a. Line of apsides
c. 70 MHz b. Line of nodes
d. 500 MHz c. Line of shoot
d. Line of sight
63. When the satellites are spaced 4
degrees of the 360 degrees 70. The line joining the perigee and
complete circle, how many parking apogee through the center of the
spaces or orbit slots are available? earth.
a. 90 a. Line of sight
b. 85 b. Line of nodes
c. 95 c. Equatorial belt
d. 80 d. Line of apsides

64. The first satellite launched for a

geosynchronous orbit but
unfortunately lost during orbit
injection.
a. Syncom I
b. Telstar I
c. Sputnik I
d. Early Bird

65. Geostationary satellites are located

_______ with respect to the
equator.
a. 0 deg longitude
b. 0 deg latitude
c. 90 deg latitude
d. 45 deg latitude

66. Incidentally proposed the

geostationary scheme or orbit of
satellites in 1940's.
a. Clarke
b. Gauss
c. Morse
d. Gray

67. The control routine necessary to

keep the satellite in position is
referred to as
a. Station keeping
b. Station tracking
c. Station monitoring
d. Station maintenance

68. A satellite which simply reflects the

signal without further amplification.