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What is aperture blockage?

  • A.The reduction in aperture area caused by the rim of the reflector being curved
  • B.The loss of signal when an obstacle stands in the far field of the antenna
  • C.The deliberate masking of part of an aperture to shape the radiation pattern
  • D.Obstruction of the aperture by the feed and its supports

Answer: D

In a prime focus or Cassegrain geometry the feed, subreflector and struts sit in the path of the reflected wave, removing power from the aperture and scattering it into the side lobes. The loss goes roughly as the square of the blocked fraction of the diameter, and the side lobe damage is often the more serious. Offset geometries avoid it entirely. Far field obstacles are a propagation problem, and deliberate masking is a synthesis technique of quite another kind.

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