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What is aperture efficiency?

  • A.The ratio of effective to physical aperture area
  • B.The ratio of the radiated power to the power accepted at the feed terminals
  • C.The proportion of the pattern power that falls inside the main lobe of the beam
  • D.The fraction of the operating band over which the gain meets its specification

Answer: A

Aperture efficiency is effective area divided by physical area, and it collects together taper, spillover, blockage, phase error and surface tolerance into one number. A prime focus reflector reaches fifty to sixty per cent and a well designed Cassegrain rather more. Radiated over accepted power is radiation efficiency, main lobe power fraction is beam efficiency, and gain bandwidth is a separate specification. Three efficiencies with similar names is a genuine trap, and each is defined by a different ratio that must be quoted explicitly.

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