TRANSMISSION, DIGITAL &

DATA COMMS, SATELLITE

COMMS
AS FREQUENCY INCREASES, THE
RESISTANCE OF A WIRE?
INCREASES
ON A SMITH CHART, YOU “NORMALIZE”
THE IMPEDANCE BY?
DIVIDING IT BY Z0
THE VELOCITY FACTOR OF A CABLE
DEPENDS MOSTLY ON?
DIELECTRIC CONSTANT
IN FERRITE, WHAT DOES YIG MEAN?
YTTRIUM-IRON-GARNET
THE EFFECT OF FREQUENCY ON THE
RESISTANCE OF A WIRE IS CALLED?
SKIN EFFECT
A NON-OPTIMUM VALUE OF SWR WILL
CAUSE?
 -STANDING WAVES
-LOSS OF POWER TO LOAD
-HIGHER VOLTAGE PEAKS ON CABLE
 AT VERY HIGH FREQUENCIES,
TRANSMISSION LINES ARE USED AS?
TUNED CIRCUITS
ON A SMITH CHART, WHAT DOES A
POINT IN THE BOTTOM HALF OF THE
CHART REPRESENT?
A CAPACITIVE IMPEDANCE
THE FORWARD-PROGRESS VELOCITY OF
THE WAVEFRONT IN A WAVEGUIDE IS
CALLED?
GROUP VELOCITY
A STANDING WAVE RATIO IS A
MEASURE OF?
POWER OUT COMPARED TO REFLECTED
POWER BACK
AN SWR READING WHICH HAS A SHORT
CIRCUIT TERMINATION
INFINITY
IT DESCRIBES THE ATTENUATION AND
PHASE SHIFT PER UNIT LENGTH OF A
TRANSMISSION LINE
PROPAGATION CONSTANT
ENERGY THAT HAS NEITHER BEEN
RADIATED INTO SPACE NOR
COMPLETELY TRANSMITTED
STANDING WAVES
BEST REASON FOR PRESSURIZING
WAVEGUIDES WITH DRY AIR
TO REDUCE POSSIBILITY OF INTERNAL
ARCING
 TRANSMISSION LINES WHEN
CONNECTED TO THE ANTENNA HAVE
RESISTIVE LOAD AT RESONANT
FREQUENCY
 CHARACTERISTIC IMPEDANCE OF A
TRANSMISSION LINE IS THE IMPEDANCE
MEASURED AT THE ______ WHEN ITS
LENGTH IS INFINITE
INPUT
BY FAR THE MOST COMMONLY USED
METHOD FOR ERROR DETECTION AND
CORRECTION, IT USED IN
ASYNCHRONOUS DEVICES SUCH AS
PC’S
PARITY CHECKING
 IT INVOLVES THE RECEIVING DEVICE
ECHOING THE RECEIVED DATA BACK
TO THE TRANSMITTING DEVICE.
ECHOPLEX
 RESENDING A MESSAGE WHEN IT IS
RECEIVED IN ERROR AND THE RECEIVE
TERMINAL AUTOMATICALLY CALLS FOR
RETRANSMISSION
THE NUMBER OF BIT POSITION IN WHICH
TWO CODEWORD DIFFERS
HAMMING DISTANCE
 BASEBAND TRANSMISSION OF A
DIGITAL SIGNAL IS POSSIBLE ONLY IF WE
HAVE A ________
LOW PASS
WHAT ECODING TECHNIQUE ATTEMPTS
TO SOLVE A LOSS OF
SYNCHRONIZATION DUE TO LONG
STRINGS OF 0’s
BnZS
ONE FACTOR IN THE ACCURACY OF A
RECONSTRUCTED PCM SIGNAL IS THE
_______
NUMBER OF BITS USED FOR
QUANTIZATION
HOW MANY DIFFERENT CHARACTERS
COULD BE ENCODED USING A SIX BIT
CODE
64
THE BITS SENT TO ALLOW EQUALIZATION
ARE CALLED
A TRAINING SEQUENCE
IN THE EQUATION
C=2Blog2M
M IS THE?
NUMBER OF POSSIBLE STATES PER
SYMBOL
WHICH CODING REQUIRES DC
CONTINUITY?
Unipolar NRZ
IF THE AVAILABLE CHANNEL IS A ____
CHANNEL, THE DIGITAL SIGNAL
CANNOT BE SENDED DIRECTLY TO THE
CHANNEL
BANDPASS
______ DATA IS A SYNCHRONOUS DATA
TRANSMITTED WITHOUT A CLOAKING
SOURCE
ISOCHRONOUS
INVOLVES CAREFUL SYNCHRONIZATION
OF TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS OF
VARYING LEVELS OF BANDWIDTH
THROUGH THE USE OF HIGHLY
ACCURATE CLOCKING DEVICES
PLEISIOCHRONOUS
#1 OSI LAYER ?
PHYSICAL
UNIT OF INFORMATION OF
PHYSICAL LAYER
DATA LINK LAYER
NETWORK LAYER
TRANSPORT LAYER
 Bits
frames
packets
segments
 TRANSMISSION SPEED OF
10Base2, 10Base5, and 10BaseT
10 megabits per second

BITCH
_______ ARE AT THE TOP OF THE LAN
FOOD CHAIN
GATEWAYS
 ____ SERVERS CONTAIN DIRECTORY
LISTINGS OF ALL SUCH FILES, UPDATED
ON A MOTHLY BASIS THROUGH A
PROCESS OF SERVER POLLING
ARCHIE
 _____ IS AN ARCHIE VARIATION THAT
SUPPORTS AN INDEX OF GPHERSPACE
TITLES ON WHICH A SERACH CAN BE
PERFORMED
 JARVIS
(JUST. A. RATHER. VERY. INTELLIGENT. SYSTEM.)

JUST KIDDING! 

VERONICA
VERY EASY RODENT-ORIENTED NET WIDE INDEX TO
COMPUTERIZED ARCHIVES
IN DATA COMMUNICATIONS, PPP
STANDS FOR
POINT-to-POINT PROTOCOL
PROVIDES DIAL UP NETWORKED
CNNECTIONS TO NETWORKS.
PPP
1ST DUPLEX SATELLITE
TELSTAR-1
1ST ACTIVE SATELLITE
SPUTNIK 1
1ST AMERICAN SATELLITE
EXPLORER 1
 1ST COMMERCIAL
TELECOMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE
OR
COMMERCIAL SERVICE SAT
 INTELSAT

OR

“EARLY BIRD”
____ SATELLITES ARE DESIGNED TO
CARRY LIVING ORGANISMS,
GENERALLY FOR SCIENTIFIC
EXPERIMENTATION
BIOSATELLITES
The law concerning planetary motion?

Formulated by who in early 17th

century?
 KEPLER’S LAW

JOHANNES KEPLER
THE SQUARE OF THE PERIODIC TIME OF
ORBIT IS PROPORTIONAL TO THE CUBE
OF THE MEAN DISTANCE BETWEEN THE
PRIMARY AND THE SATELLITE
KEPLER’S THIRD LAW
aka
Law of Periods
Or
Harmonic Law
The LOS distance between an earth
station antenna and the satellite
SLANT DISTANCE
NOISE POWER NORMALIZED OR
PRESENT IN A 1-HZ BANDWIDTH
NOISE DENSITY
 RATIO BETWEEN THE AVERAGE
WIDEBAND CARRIER POWER TO NOISE
DENSITY
CARRIER TO NOISE DENSITY RATIO
FIRST SATELLITE OF JAPAN
OSUMI
FIRST SAT OF ISRAEL?
OFEQ 1
IT REPRESENTS AROUND 70% OF THE
COMMERCIAL COMMUNICATIONS
SATELLITE USE.
TELEVISION
TYPICAL OPERATING LIFETIME OF A
SATELLITE IN YEARS
15 YEARS
APPROXIMATE PATH LOSS FROM SAT TO
EARTH STATION
200db
CONSIDERED AS THE FIRST “PASSIVE”
SATELLITE
THE MOON
 RADIATION PATTERNS OF EARTH
COVERAGE ANTENNAS HAVE A
BEAMWIDTH OF APPROXIMATELY ___
17 DEGREES
 TRANSPONDER BANDWIDTH
COMMONLY USED IN SATELLITE?
36 MHz
 IT STATES THAT THE RADIUS VECTOR
FROM THE SUN TO A PLANET SWEEPS
EQUAL ARES IN EQUAL TIME
KEPLER’S SECOND LAW
MODULATION TECHNIQUE USED BY
ASYNCHRONOUS DATA?
FSK
IT REFERS TO THE DEVICE THAT THE USER
EMPLOYS TO GAIN ACCESS TO THE
NETWORK
DATA TERMINAL EQUIPMENT
 IT REFERS TO THE DEVICE THAT
ACTUALLY TERMINATES THE CIRCUIT AT
THE CUSTOMER’S PREMISES, TYPICALLY
A MODEM
DATA CIRCUIT TERMINATING
EQUIPMENT
 MOST POPULAR STANDARD FOR
COMMUNICATION AND CONNETION
BETWEEN MODEMS AND COMPUTERS.
RS 232
COMPANY OR ORGANIZATION
DEVELOPED THE FIRST DIGITAL
TRANSMISSION SYSTEM
AT&T
IT REFERS TO THE PHYSICAL CIRCUIT
OVER WHICH THE CUSTOMER IS
TRANSPORTED IN A NETWORK
FACILITY
OLDEST NETWORK TOPOLOGY
STAR TOPOLOGY
FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING
CAN BE CONSDERED AS ____
TECHNOLOGY
ANALOG