VSAT Installation and Maintenance Training Workbook

Part 1

Objective

Participant’s Name

Instruction: kindly circle the correct option

1. A satellite in geostationary orbit means:

(A) That the satellite hangs 22,247 miles or 35800 Km above the pole
(B) That the satellite hangs “motionless” above the Earth
(C) That the orbital period is about 6 hours

2. One of the advantages of a satellite in geostationary orbit is:

(A) That ground antennas can be aimed easily and stay pointed toward the right place
(B) That the path loss is only 206 dB
(C) That the round trip delay for the signal is only 300 ms

3. The transmission from the earth station to the satellite is called:

(A) Uplink
(B) Downlink
(C) Station Keeping

4. Why are the uplink and downlink frequencies of satellite different?

(A) Cheaper hardware

(B) To avoid interference between the two signals
(C) To permit a smaller receive antenna

5. C-Band is the frequency spectrum roughly between:

(A) 1 – 2 GHz
(B) 4 – 6 GHz
(C) 18 – 40 GHz

6. Ku-Band is the frequency spectrum roughly between:

(A) 4 – 6 GHz
(B) 10 – 18 GHz
(C) 18 – 40 GHz

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7. What is the advantage of C-band above Ku-band?

(A) C-band technology is well proven and signal transmission is not significantly
affected by propagation effects such as rain and depolarization
(B) C-band is not shared by terrestrial microwave systems. This significantly reduces
the need for frequency coordination and terrestrial interference analyzes
(C) C-band communication requires smaller dishes and lower transmit power

8. What is a footprint?

(A) A country where satellite communication is allowed

(B) The geographic area towards which a satellite downlink antenna directs its signal
or conversely the area from which the satellite is visible from the earth
(C) This is not related to satellite communications

9. What is a transponder?

(A) A piece of electronic equipment on the customer premises that transmit signals to
the satellite
(B) A piece of electronic equipment inside the satellite that acts like a microwave
repeater, which receives, amplifies, and re-transmits the incoming signals back to
the earth into its footprint
(C) A piece of electronic equipment on the customer premises that receives signal
from the satellite

10. The offset for every offset antenna is the same?

(A) Yes
(B) No, it depends on the manufacturer
(C) This is not relevant

11. OMT stands for Ortho Mode Transducer also known as diplexer. What is its
function?

(A) The OMT blocks all the energy coming out of the transmitter
(B) The OMT splits the incoming signal in horizontal and vertical component
(C) The OMT ensures a better received signal
(D) The OMT suppresses terrestrial interference

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12. What is meant by IF?

(A) In VSAT applications IF is any frequency between an audio sound and the
infrared light portion of the spectrum but usually considered to be 1 MHz to 1000
MHz
(B) In VSAT applications IF represents any frequency of the audio spectrum
(C) In VSAT applications IF is usually 70MHz plus/ minus 20MHz or 140MHz plus/
minus 40MHz

13. What is true: QPSK is…

(A) Equal to the output power

(B) A modem parameter
(C) A type of modulation
(D) Expressed in dB

14. What type of modulation is more bandwidth efficient than QPSK

(A) 4PSK
(B) 8PSK
(C) BPSK
(D) 2PSK

15. Satellite frequencies, occasional service interruptions due to weather are

expected. What frequency band is not being affected by rain at all?

(A) Ka-band
(B) Ku-band
(C) C-band
(D) All frequencies are susceptible to rain attenuation

16. Which of these is not true of a polar orbit?

(A) It is a type of low earth orbit

(B) Satellite in polar orbit travels an East-West direction
(C) Satellite in polar orbit travels a North-South direction

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17. Satellites for remote sensing (monitoring of global environment) of the earth
surface are likely to be lunched into?

(A) Geostationary orbit

(B) Elliptical orbit
(C) Polar orbit

18. The average life span of satellite ranges from:

(A) 18 – 20 years
(B) 3 – 5 years
(C) 10 – 15 years

19. Which of these is used to connect the ODU to the IDU?

(A) Modem
(B) Transponder
(C) Inter Facility links

20. Which of these is not part of an ODU?

(A) LNB
(B) BUC
(C) LNA
(D) Modem

21. A 2.4 Meters prodelin antenna has an offset of 22 degrees calculate how much
the beam will be raised

(A) in sufficient data to calculate

(B) 44 degrees
(C) 11 degrees
(D) 22 degrees

22. L-band frequency ranges from:

(A) 950 to 2150 KHz

(B) 9.50 to 21.50 MHz
(C) 950 to 2150 MHz

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23. A transceivers differs from a BUCs and LNBs in that their LO is:

(A) Constant as set by the manufacturer

(B) Not constant but configurable
(C) Indeterminate because of its complex nature.

24. The use of encoding and error control is highly desirable because:

(A) It is cheap technology

(B) Higher data rates, without the increase of bandwidth, are required.
(C) It doesn’t work without
(D) It gives better C/N

25. The Cable run between IDU and ODU should be as short as possible because:

(A) It saves money

(B) It’s better for the connectors
(C) Then you don’t need a line amplifier
(D) Keeps the losses in your system as low as possible

Note: Submission of workbook assignment is mandatory for you to attend the next class

Thanks

VSAT Installation and Maintenance Training Rev.1.0/ December 2009

Trainer: Ajuyah, Silvanus

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