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Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
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...- pkmad
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- Forum: How to Improve Myself
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Recommend a VSAT Design book?
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...- pkmad
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- Forum: Spacecraft engineering
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reset pin number on micro-controller
Melone I do not have a good selection of data books. I did check out the web and did not find too much.- pkmad
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- Forum: Circuit design
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reset pin number on micro-controller
I am looking for the pin number of the 208 pin, micro-controller STI 5500MVBX, of the reset, xtal 1 and xtal 2 signals.- pkmad
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- Forum: Circuit design
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tracking of ka band azimith and elevation
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...- pkmad
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- Forum: Spacecraft engineering
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Sound reception quality of TVRO
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...- pkmad
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- Forum: Spacecraft engineering
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Rain Attenuation and Cross-polarisation interference
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...- pkmad
- Post #4
- Forum: Spacecraft engineering
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TCP/IP stream to DVB encapsulator
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...- pkmad
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- Forum: Spacecraft engineering
