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Control system for a QPSK burst modem used for ACTS satellite testing

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Date Issued:
1995
Summary:
A test system was designed to determine the performance a QPSK satellite burst modem when using the Ka band link of the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite. Interface circuitry, largely based on the 22V10 programmable logic device, was designed to allow the modem to be controlled by a personal computer. Communication between the interface and the computer was accomplished through the computer's parallel port. TDMA frame timing was automatically controlled by the interface. A C language program provided operator control of the interface itself. Tests using this system showed that a severe night-time fading problem is experienced at the FAU receiver site. Very low error rates were recorded by this system in a loop-back transmission at the NASA satellite control terminal.
Title: Control system for a QPSK burst modem used for ACTS satellite testing.
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Name(s): Knight, Terence Robert.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Helmken, Henry, Thesis advisor
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1995
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 165 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: A test system was designed to determine the performance a QPSK satellite burst modem when using the Ka band link of the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite. Interface circuitry, largely based on the 22V10 programmable logic device, was designed to allow the modem to be controlled by a personal computer. Communication between the interface and the computer was accomplished through the computer's parallel port. TDMA frame timing was automatically controlled by the interface. A C language program provided operator control of the interface itself. Tests using this system showed that a severe night-time fading problem is experienced at the FAU receiver site. Very low error rates were recorded by this system in a loop-back transmission at the NASA satellite control terminal.
Identifier: 15139 (digitool), FADT15139 (IID), fau:11913 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): College of Engineering and Computer Science
Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1995.
Subject(s): Advanced Communications Technology Satellite
Artificial satellites in telecommunication
Digital communications
Held by: Florida Atlantic University Libraries
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Host Institution: FAU
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