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3. Determinetheangleoftiltrequiredforapolarmountusedwithanearthstationat
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latitude49 north.Assumeasphericalearthofmeanradius6371kmandignore earthstationaltitude. 4. Whatisatransponder? 5. Asatellitedownlinkat12Ghzoperateswithatransmitpowerof6Wandanantenna gainof48.2dB.CalclulatetheERIPindBW. 6. Whatisintermodulationnoise? 7. WhatisaSPADEsystem? 8. WhatisCDMA? 9. Whatistheorbitalspacingofasatellite? 10.WhatareVSATs?
(ii) Whataretheeffectsofanonsphericalearthontheorbitalmechanicsof asatellite? (4) (iii) Calculatetheradiusofacircularorbitforwhichtheperiodis1day. (4) 12.(a)(i) DiscussaboutnearGeostationaryorbits. (6)
(ii) Determinethelimitsofvisibilityforanearthstationsituatedatmeansea level,atlatitude48.42northandlongitude89.26west.Assumeaminimum angleofelevationof5. (6) (iii) Discussabousuntransitoutage. OR (b)(i) Discussindetailaboutattitudecontrolofasatellite. (8) (4)
(ii) InmostsatlliteTVreceivers,thefirstIFbandisconvertedtoasecond,fixed IF.Whyisthissecondfrequencyconversionrequired? (2) (iii) Discussaboutantennamisalignmentlosseswithrelevantfigures. OR (b)(i) Anantennahasanoisetemperatureof35Kandismatchedintoareceiver whichhasanoisetemperatureof100K.Calculatethenoisepowerdensity andthenoisepowerbandwidthof36MHz. (4) (ii) Whatisinputbackoff?Describeit.Alsosubstantiatethereasonbehind employingit. (6) (iii) Derievethelinkpowerbudgetequation. 14.(a)(i) Discussindetailaboutdirectsequencespreadspectrum. (6) (8) (6)
(ii) InaTDMAnetworkthereferenceburstandthepreambleeachrequires560 bitsandthenominalguardintervalbetweenburstsisequivalentto120bits. Giventhatthereareeighttraffficburstsandonereferenceburstperframeand thetotalframelengthisequivalentto40800bits,calculatetheframe efficiency. (4) (iii) Distinguishbetweenpreassignedanddemandassignedtrafficinrelationtoa satellitecommunicationnetwork. (4) OR (b)(i) DiscussindetailaboutsatellitelinksandTCP. (10)
(ii) Explainwhatismeantbyasymmetricchannels.Describehowasymmetric channelsmaybeincorporatedininternetconnectionsviasatellites. (6) 15.(a)(i) Fora24Mhzbandwidthtransponderandallowingforarollofffactorof0.2, whatisthesymbolrate? (2) (ii) DiscussindetailaboutMPEGcompressionstandards. (10)
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OR DiscussindetailaboutGlobalPositioningsatellitesystem.
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