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    This document contains 23 questions related to satellite communications covering topics like link budget calculations, noise temperature, transponder components and operation, earth station components, propagation effects, and rain attenuation calculations. Questions range from performing specific calculations to explaining concepts like types of transponder architectures and comparing automatic versus manual antenna tracking.

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    This document contains 23 questions related to satellite communications covering topics like link budget calculations, noise temperature, transponder components and operation, earth station components, propagation effects, and rain attenuation calculations. Questions range from performing specific calculations to explaining concepts like types of transponder architectures and comparing automatic versus manual antenna tracking.

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    This document contains 23 questions related to satellite communications covering topics like link budget calculations, noise temperature, transponder components and operation, earth station components, propagation effects, and rain attenuation calculations. Questions range from performing specific calculations to explaining concepts like types of transponder architectures and comparing automatic versus manual antenna tracking.

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    Course Code ELE 467


    Course title Satellite COMMUNICATIONS
    Semester/year Fall 2022/2023

    Sheet no. 5

    BY:
    Dr. Mohamed Barakat
    ENG. Manar
    Page |2

    Question_1: Answer the following questions:

    1. A satellite at 12 GHz operates with a transmit power of 6 W and an antenna


    gain of 48.2 dB. Calculate the EIRP in dBW.
    2. The distance between a ground station and a satellite is 36,000 km.
    Calculate the free-space loss at a frequency of 6 GHz.
    3. Briefly description three types of losses in space satellite link.
    4. Write the complete equation of Link-Power Budget and define each term?
    5. A satellite link operating at 12 GHz has receiver feeder losses of 1.5 dB
    and a free-space loss of 207 dB. The atmospheric absorption losses 0.5 dB,
    and the antenna pointing loss is 0.5 dB. Depolarization losses may be
    neglected. Calculate the total link loss for clear-sky conditions.
    6. An LNA is connected to a receiver which has a noise figure of 12 dB. The
    gain of the LNA is 40 dB, and its noise is 120 K. Calculate the overall
    noise temperature referred to the LNA input.
    7. For the system shown in the following figure, the receiver noise figure is
    12 dB, the cable loss is 5 dB, the LNA gain is 50 dB, and its noise
    temperature 150 K. The antenna noise temperature is 35 K. Calculate the
    noise temperature referred to the input.

    8. Repeat the calculation in (7) when the system is arranged


    as shown in the following figure. Comment on the results.

    9. The receiver power in satellite link is very small, on the order of ___watts.
    a) Pico. b) femto c) micro d) mili
    10. The………is also generated in the lossy components of antennas.
    a) Thermal noise. b) electrical noise c) sky noise d) all the above
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    11. Below 1GHz ______noise effect is more.


    a) Galactic. b) Thermal c) electrical d) sky
    12. An antenna has a noise temperature of 35 K and is matched into a
    receiver which has a noise temperature of 100 K. Calculate (a) the noise
    power density and (b) the noise power for a bandwidth of 36 MHz
    13. The attenuation noise temperature is ____ in low elevation angle.
    a) High b) low c) doesn’t change
    14. ______ provides the connecting link between transmitting and receiving
    antennas of a satellite.
    a) Responder b) Transponder. c) TT&C d) duplexer
    15. Draw the block diagram of transponder, and explain each block?
    16. ____is a two-way microwave gate.
    a) Responder b) Transponder c) TT&C d) duplexer.
    17. ______ determines the type of transponder.
    a) TT&C b) Duplexer c) Carrier Processor d) frequency translation
    18. Why the Bent Pipe transponders called transparent transponder?
    19. Compare between the Bent Pipe transponders and the processing
    transponders
    20. Draw the block diagram of Earth Station?
    21. Compare between the automatic tracking and manual tracking?
    22. Mention two propagation impairments and their physical cause?
    23. For a satellite transmission path, the angle of elevation of the earth station
    antenna is 35°, and the earth station is situated at mean sea level. The signal
    is vertically polarized at a frequency of 20 GHz. The rain height is 1 km, and
    a rain rate of 10 mm/h is exceeded for 0.001 percent of the year. Calculate
    the rain attenuation under these conditions ( 𝑎ℎ = 0.0751, 𝑎𝑣 = 0.0691,
    𝑏ℎ = 1.099, and 𝑏𝑣 = 1).

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