Satellite
Satellite
(a) Digital TV
(b) Double TV
(c) Analog TV
Q241. The orbital spacing is ______ for the high-power satellites, so adjacent satellite interference is
considered nonexistent.
(a) 18°
(b) 9°
(c) 27°
(d) None of these
Q242. A satellite may carry ______ transponders.
(a) 32
(b) 41
(c) 24
Q243. If all 32 transponders are in use, each will operate at the lower power rating of__________.
(a) 12 W
(b) 120 W
(c) 1200 W
(c) same
Q245. By doubling up the high-power amplifiers, the number of transponders is reduced by half to 16, but
each transponder operates at____________.
(c) Same
Q246. The frequencies for direct broadcast satellites vary from region to region throughout the world,
although these are generally in the_____________.
(a) Ku band
(b) Ka band
(c) C-band
(d) None of these
Q247. The primary use of which is for DBS, the uplink frequency range is_________, and the downlink
range is 12.2 to 12.7 GHz.
Q248. The primary use of these satellites, however, is for point-to-point applications, with an allowed
additional use in the__________.
(c) Satellite
Q249. The total of 32 transponders requires the use of both right-hand circular polarization (RHCP) and
left-hand circular polarization (LHCP) in order to permit_______, and guard bands are inserted between
channels of a given polarization.
Q252. The bit rate for digital television depends very much on the___________.
Q253. Using the HDTV format having a pixel count per frame of _____and a refresh rate of 30 frames
per second
Q254. In the broadcast raster for studio-quality television, when digitized according to the international
CCIR-601 television standard, requires a bit rate of___________.
(b) 26 Mb/s
Q255. Single DBS transponder has to carry somewhere between ___________TV programs to be
commercially viable.
Q258. As a first or preprocessing step, the analog outputs from the red (R), green (G), and blue (B) color
cameras are converted to________.
(a) A luminance component (Y) and two chrominance components (Cr) and (Cb)
(b) Two luminance component (Y) and (Cb) and one chrominance components (Cr)
(c) a&b
(a) The Cb and Cr signals are sampled at half the rate of the Y signal component.
(b) The Cb and Cr signals are sampled at double the rate of the Y signal component.
(c) a&b
(d) None of these
Q262. 4:2:0 sampling means that______.
(a) Cb and Cr are sampled at half the Y sampling rate, but they are sampled only on alternate scan
lines.
(b) Cb and Cr are sampled at double the Y sampling rate, but they are sampled only on alternate scan
lines.
(c) Cb and Cr are sampled at full the Y sampling rate, but they are sampled only on alternate scan lines.
(a) 16 * 16 pixels
(b) 8 * 8 pixels
(c) 2 * 2 pixels
(a) MPEG-4 provides many features not present with other compression schemes, such as interactivity for
viewers, where objects within a scene can be manipulated.
(b) MPEG-4 provides the major advantage is the reduction in bit rate offered in satellite television.
(c) a&b
Q266. MPEG-4 provides the major advantage is the ________in bit rate offered in satellite television.
(a) Reduction
(b)Increment
(c) double
(d) None of these
Q267. ODU stands as_____.
Q269. Because of the highly compressed nature of the DBS signal, there is little ___________in the
information being transmitted, and bit errors affect the signal much more severely than they would in a
noncom-pressed bit stream.
(a) Redundancy
(b) Disturbance
(c) Noise
Q270. In Because of the highly compressed nature of the DBS signal, there is little redundancy in the
information being transmitted, and bit errors affect the signal much ____severely than they would in a
non-compressed bit stream.
(a) More
(b) Less
(c) Same
(a) Increase
(b) Decrease
(c) Same
Q272. The IDU must be able to receive any of the 32 transponders, although only _____ of these will be
available for a single polarization.
(a) 16
(b) 8
(c) 24
Q273. The main factor governing performance of a DBS system will be the [Eb/N0] of the______.
(a) Uplink
(b) Downlink
(c) Up-downlink
Q275. DirecTV plans to use _________in its HDTV satellite broadcasts and all HDTV services in Europe
are expected to use this rather than the MPEG-2.
(a) H.264/AVC
(b) H.24/AVC
(c) H.64/AVC
Q277. The familiar direct view cathode ray tube (CRT) used for analog TV is _____of displaying HDTV.
(b) Capable
(c) Accept
Q279. Plasma displays are made up of tiny______________. The video signal stimulates a gas inside the
cells, which impacts the phosphors causing them to glow.
Q280. DLP displays utilize a digital micro-mirror device (DMD) invented by_______.
(b) IBM
(c) STMicroelectronics
Q281. The DMD contains approximately_________, each micro-mirror representing one pixel. The
micro-mirrors can be mechanically pivoted up to 5000 times a second, the pivoting being activated by the
video signal.
Q282. For NTSC analog TV, (see Sec. 9.5) Lact=483, L=525,a= 4/3, F lfb = 1.19 and F =30. With K =0.7.
Calculate the highest video frequency.
Q283. Calculate the highest video frequency for HDTV 1080i. Assume a Kell factor of 0.7.
Q285. The basic structure of a VSAT network consists of a hub station which provides a broadcast
facility to all the VSATs in the network and the VSATs themselves which access the satellite in some
form of___________.
(a) Multiple-access mode
(b) Multiplexing
(c) Channel
Q286. ____________is the normal downlink mode of transmission from hub to the VSATs, and the
transmission can be broadcast for reception by all the VSATs in a network, or address coding can be used
to direct messages to selected VSATs.
Q287. The most popular access method is________, which allows the use of comparatively low-power
VSAT terminals
(a) FDMA
(b) TDMA
(c) CDMA
(a) FDMA
(b) TDMA
Q289. DAMA can be used with FDMA as well as TDMA, but the disadvantage of the method is that a
______________through which the VSATs can make requests for channel allocation.
Q290. Most VSAT systems operate in the ________, although there are some C-band systems in
existence.
(a) Ka band
(b) Ku band
(c) L- band
Q292. In the GPS system, a constellation of 24 satellites circles the earth in near-circular________.
(a) GEO
(b) MEO
Q293. The GPS system uses_____________, from satellites to users, so that the user does not require a
transmitter, only a GPS receiver.
Q294. The GPS system uses one-way transmissions, from satellites to users, so that the user_________.
(d) a & c
Q295. The Orbital Communications Corporation (Orbcomm) system is a___________, which provides
two-way message and data communications services and position determination.
Q296. The Orbital Communications Corporation (Orbcomm) system is a LEO satellite system, which
provides __________message and data communications services and position determination.
(a) Two-way
(b) One-way
(c) Half-way
Q297. The Asian Cellular System, or AceS, utilizes one _________covering the Asia Pacific area, an area
of over 11 million square miles.
(a) MPEG-1
(b) MPEG-2
(c) MPEG-4