I agree with Scoobystu and Jboucher50:
Murphy's laws applies in the most opportune times. Since I have Murphy's in my family, we had O'Tool's Axiom:
It quite simply states:
"Murphy was an optimist"
I have read some profound works from various authors as well.
I found two...
DssD:
Take a look at the following website. Click on "search" on the left side of the web page and under there is a link to satellite communications. The link under satellite communications has several books on satellite communications.
http://www.artechhouse.com/
Other books I...
kmutt:
Since you indicate you need this for education, the priciple of tracking and controling Ka antennas in AZ and EL is the same for C & Ku band antennas. The following site contains white papers on many engineering topics. You will have to search yourself for the appropiate information...
Harry:
This problem can be one problem such as the origination point has low audio quality or the programs are being sent over two satellite hops and the 2nd uplink station maybe causing the low audio.
This can also be several little problems like your receive antenna being mis-aimed or not...
I have some handy reference material around in my office and my colleagues office on these subjects.
Books:
Satellite Communications, Pratt&Boshan, 1986 Wiley
Satellite Communications, Dennis Roddy, 1996 McGraw Hill
Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Through Rain, Robert K. Crane, 1996 Wiley...
Papasmirf:
The beauty of MPE as Brutus says it takes whatever is on the ethernet wire 10/100 and encapsulates it.
Since you mention delays as a concern, I suggest looking at either Skystream or Thales encapsulators as alternates. I done some evaluations on encapsulators in end to end...
