***Coaching Notes*** 51.

6 to 10 dB – noticeable change in loudness level

Communications2 52. noise figure: (with equalizer)
a. 330 MHz – 9.5 dB
1. Extended superframe – 576 channels b. 54 MHz – 7.5 dB
2. Delta Modulation – slope overload is common problem 53. 12 dB – visual signal level for channels that have other
3. T1 – most common carrier line for telephones than 6MHz nominal separation
4. 100 dB - RF and IF gain in receiver 54. 3 dB – visual signal level for channels that have 6MHz
5. 0.9 – velocity factor for open wire nominal separation
6. 0.8 – velocity factor for twin lead 55. 13 to 17 dB – sound carrier lower than visual carrier
7. Critical frequency of F2 – 8 MHz 56. Cross Luminance – diagonal patterns
8. Ephemeris – location of a celestial body in space 57. S unit – 6 dB
9. troposcatter – 350 MHz to 10 GHz 58. MPDP – apply at NTC regional office of area to service
10. End impedance of HW dipole – 2500Ω 59. 24.3 kBaud/sec – modulation rate for D-AMPS
11. single hop night time range of F2 – 4130 km 60. 150 µV – receiver preampt input (CATV)
12. 3300 m/s – speed of sound in wood 61. SSB – 200 Hz shift results in material degradation
13. GSM/TDMA – cannot execute soft handoff because 62. +- 25V – max voltage to apply (data)
cellsites use different sets of frequencies to communicate 63. GMDSS – Global Maritime Distress and Safety System
with each other 64. AMPS – 10 kbps
14. 20 phons – typical loudness level of ticking watch 65. Positive Carrier Shift – insufficient grid mod at grid
15. M88 – 88 mH coil; every 9000 feet modulation ckt
16. Hybrid Transformer – 2 wire to 4 wire converter 66. Negative Carrier Shift – insufficient grid mod at high
17. click – square wave; rounding off something power modulation
18. SDMA – Spatial Div. Multi Access; use same frequency in 67. 100 milliroentgents/week exposure
multiple focused beams aim at different areas 68. 0.5 milliroentgents per hour from 5 cm
19. IS 95 – became CDMA 2000 69. camera pickup tube – yellow green is most sensitive
20. International pitch A – 435 Hz 70. wan topologies:
21. Hash – 128 bits sequence in digital signature a. leased line
22. Envelope Delay Distortion – caused by freq. dependent b. circuit switching
attenuation chars of transmission lines c. packet switching
23. POP3 – Post Office Protocol version 3 71. <5% - interference to visual signal level
24. Why use geosynchronous satellites? To simplify tracking 72. Measuring rad exposure – device should have area max
requirements 10cm2 max linear dimension is 5cm
25. BISYNC – not a bit oriented protocol 73. 3 channels – separation between geographically adjacent
26. flag filed for SDLC/HDC – 7Eh stations to minimize interference
27. Bit stuffing – to prevent accidental flag fields? 74. downtilt – limit range
28. Blank and Burst – interrupt voice feed to send control 75. GPS – uses CDMA for multiple access tech
signals (cellular telephony) 76. 1800 Hz – reference frequency for envelope delay
29. fiber optics are preferred to satellites for long distance distortion measurement
telephone transmission because of less delay 77. Two tone test – SSB method in testing AM transmitter
30. real time of info – found in circuit switching 78. Pump laser – to higher energy level
31. mechanical splicing 79. MPEG2 – Discrete Cosine Transform
32. fusion splicing – the ends are melted together 80. IMTS – Improved Mobile Tel System; Bell Labs, 1965 or 68
33. 2 mV – TV video signal level 81. PON – not needing to install expensive equipment at every
34. for CATV : (noise free picture) terminal
a. 1 mV for 75Ω 82. Ethernet – uses 3 level Manchester code
b. 2 mV for 300Ω 83. CT 2 – portable payphone booth
35. Synchronous demodulation – process of getting the info 84. SSB - assigned frequency is 1.4 kHz above carrier
from the chroma signal frequency
36. CW Doppler Radar – used by police 85. Linear amplifier – frequency instability for J3E because
37. CTCS – Continuous Tone Control Squelch; low frequency there’s no carrier reference
tones only 86. Horn and slot – direct connection to waveguides
38. EO 196 – control of PHILCOM SAT to NTC
39. P 5000 – fine for no permit (MPDP)
40. P 5000 – per unit fine of unauthorized cellphone service
41. P 100 K – paid up capital
42. P 1200 – permit for MPD
43. P 300- license for CATV head end
44. Differential Peak Detector – has a peak detector
45. Sun Detector – orientation of sunlight
46. Blooming – trapped gas pockets in fiber cables
47. Service numbers – 3 digit number with specialized service
48. smart card – card with embedded IC
49. armature – part of dc radio gen which is grounded to
reduce radio noise
50. MPEG4 - current video compression standard