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Based on Mark Chartrand's highly successful seminar series, this book is a comprehensive introduction to satellite communications covering a broad sweep of regulatory, standards, economics, business, operational, and technical subjects. The text is easily readable, highly entertaining, and truly geared for the nontechnical. Dr. Chartrand employs his unique ability gained over two decades of teaching to explain complex technical and satellite applications to professionals in marketing, finance, law, public relations, and journalism, as well as personnel in ancillary fields and members of the public who wish to better understand the satellite industry. ... Read more

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Excellent and succinct
I am a novice in the satellite communications technology but am starting to work in the area at work.

It's a very succinct and provides a good engineering sense without any mathematical mess or hard work.

I recommend this to any "nonspecialist". it's a good book for any interesting engineers too.
call me when you doubt the book before your purchase. it's +82 10 9842 0002 or send me email at hpahk@kt.co.kr
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The Digital Satellite TV Handbook and companion CD-ROM will serve as your complete interactive course in the new digital satellite TV technologies. This textbook, which provides a comprehensive overview of all the digital satellite TV platforms currently in use world-wide, includes the essential satellite coverage maps and transmission parameters that readers will need to receive
digital TV services from any location around the world. It
also presents those aspects of digital video compression and high
definition TV that are of the highest relevance to installers,
technicians, and other satellite professionals working in the global
direct-to-home (DTH) satellite TV industry. The Digital Satellite TV
Handbook analyzes the hardware requirements of digital DTH receiving
systems by comparing and contrasting the new digital TV technologies
with earlier analog TV transmission systems, so that readers can
readily grasp all of the details required to make the transition from
the analog era of yesterday to the new all-digital world of the
future.


The Digital Satellite TV Handbook is based on the author's extensive
experience as an instructor for private corporations and trade
associations around the world. To facilitate the learning experience,
the author has included a series of "Quick Check" exercises and answer
keys so that readers can determine for themselves whether or not they
have adequately understood the various course segments provided.
Mathematical formulas that are relevant to course content also are
presented at the end of each chapter. Best of all, the companion CD-ROM
version of the Handbook, which may be opened by any Internet browser
software program, contains numerous Internet hyperlinks. Readers can
click on any textbook hyperlink to immediately access hundreds of
additional pages of supplementary information from the world-wide web or
obtain information updates concerning the current operations of
satellite system operators and digital TV programmers around the globe.The CD-ROM also gives readers access to full-color versions of all the
textbooks, footprint maps, charts and other illustrations.


A graphic-intensive training manual
"Quick Check" exercises in each chapter
Mathematical formulas relevant to each chapter's content ... Read more

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What I thought
This book answers a lot of "first time" questions on satellite broadcasting and from this point of view is good, however some information here and there is now out of date and there are too many illustrations which are too small or "cramped" to be of much use.
My opinion is that the book is well written but needs updating and re-presented, and because of this the price is too much.

Outdated
This book is not worth the money. It has outdated information and in my opinion is poorly written. Save your money.

A good first book.
I found this book to be a good introduction to Satellite TV. It was an easy read. I think I went through the whole thing in a weekend.The first half of the book is pretty general. The second half is focused more onspecific home satellite TV systems (I skimmed this part). The book comeswith a CD-ROM which has color copies of many of the books figures. ... Read more

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Satellite communications refers to the utilisation of geostationary orbiting satellites to relay the transmission received from one earth station to one or more earth stations. They are the outcome of research in the area of communications whose objective is to achieve ever-increasing ranges and capacities with the lowest possible costs.
Since publication of the first edition, satellite communications systems have become increasingly sophisticated. This revised, updated and extended fourth edition covers the entire field of satellite communications engineering from the techniques of orbital mechanics and radio wave propagation to the design of communication links and earth stations.

• Features an improved presentation of satellite applications with regards to services
• Discusses the most recent developments in this evolving field, including MPEG2, concatenated coding, digital TV and examples of transmission of digital telephony
• Practical approach and extensive illustrations are highly valued by student audience
• A single source, comprehensive and thorough reference covering the entire field of satellite communications engineering.

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Best book for your life
If you are really interested to understant the satellite systems, and this is the best of the books for you. The book give you a lot of in deep infomation of the satellite system and have a lot of calculation. The calculation is not easy to understand at all, so this book is not good for the beginner.

Excellent detail a great student text
Looking for a detailed but straight forward way to learn about satellite communication systems? Maybe your a student looking for study support material on this subject? Well you just found the ultimate book!

Maralet al have put together an excellent step by step approach to understandingthis complex subject. The space and ground segments get equal detailedtreatment with system design methods and analysis of all the components.This leads to a walk through of link budget calculation including exampleswith specific technical objectives.

If I could only have one SatelliteComms book then this is it!

my favorit book
Satellite Communications Systems , I think that is an important for my work . ... Read more

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Richelson Strikes again! Excellent coverage on a Great Topic!!
Dr. Jeff Richelson has provided some of the greatest reads dealing with United States military satellite systems - "America's Secret Eyes in Space", "The US Intelligence Community", and now "America's Space Sentinels." This book covers the genesis and evolution of the US' space-based missile warning system, commonly known as DSP, or defense support program. Dr. Richelson takes us through the teething of MIDAS, Program 646, and DSP's early predecessors, in addition to its successors of ALERT and SBIRS.

One high point in the text is the information on SCUD missile launches during Operation Desert Storm. While the news media reported bits and pieces on the launches, Dr. Richelson gives us a "bird's eye" view of what crews in Colorado saw half-a-world away, and what their contribution did to the defense of the US troops in the desert.

The only downside to this book is its currency - This is a volume in definite need of updating due to the bringing online of the SBIRS constellation, the battles fought during the Clinton era about space systems and emerging technologies that have DSP/SBIRS ready for the scrap-heap. If you're a military space-nut like me, this needs to be in your library.

An Important Study of a Critical Military Space Program
The Defense Satellite Program (DSP)-truly one of the most innocuous code names ever devised for a critical military program-arose in the earliest years of the space age as a means of detecting the launch of a rocket from anywhere in the world. With the development of ballistic missiles in the 1950s, for the first time in the history of the United States our two great oceans could not protect us from sustained attack and destruction. To warn against a Soviet ballistic missile attack, and thereby to allow time for the launch of a counterattack, the Department of Defense sponsored the development of satellites ringing the globe that would use infrared photographic technology to detect missile launches. The theory behind the system was that the heat signature from the rocket blast would be detected by satellites in space and then show up on infrared scopes at military monitoring posts. Through this process the time and place of launch, as well as the missile trajectory, could be ascertained within seconds of launch.

It was a brilliant concept but it took years for it to come to fruition. The first effort, Project MIDAS, experienced numerous technical problems, but finally reached a turning point in 1963 when MIDAS 7 detected the first missile launch from space. MIDAS confirmed the concept, and the DSP program, with first launch in 1970, has provided early warning of missile launches ever since. Through 1997 eighteen DSP satellites had been placed in orbit, not all of them operational of course at the same time.

Jeffrey T. Richelson's history of this program, "America's Space Sentinels," is an especially important and welcome addition to the literature of the military space program. It provides as comprehensive an understanding of this effort as is possible in the current environment, using a wealth of declassified documents to piece together this program's evolution from idea to implementation and operational life. It is, of course, not the final word on this subject because of still-classified materials that should one day be made available about DSP, but it represents a benchmark in the historiography.

Especially welcome is Richelson's discussion of DSP's employment in the post-cold war era. He provides an excellent overview of its use to detect Scud missile launches in the Gulf War of 1991. He also describes how it detected the test firing of a new Iranian missile in 1998 and its use in piecing together the details of airplane accidents, such as the September 1997 collision of American and German military aircraft off the Atlantic coast of Africa. He ends with a discussion of the follow-on missile launch detection program, the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS), which is due to come on line at the end of the century.

From the time when DSP served as the backbone of the nation's strategic early warning system during the cold war through its continued use in the still very threatening climate of the 1990s to its replacement by a presumably more capable system, this book is an important contribution to the public's understanding of space-based military systems. It should be required reading for all who are interested in the strategic defense of the United States in the nuclear era.

Excellent coverage of an Indispensible Satellite System
This book gives an excellent overview of America's Missile Warning satellites, beginning with MIDAS in the 1960s and ending with SBIRS for the 21st Century. The information included in the text is more in-depth thatthe fact sheets given out by the United States Air Force. ... Read more

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This book covers the different types of wireless industries, their regulation, the wireless technologies they use, and what services they can provide. An overview of telecom voice, data, and multimedia applications is provided along with the fundamentals of wireless technologies.

Analog and digital mobile telephone systems are covered including analog cellular (1G), digital cellular (2G), packet based cellular (2.5G), and wideband cellular (3G) communication systems. Private land mobile radio (PLMR) dispatch and two-way radio systems are explained as well as how they are changing to advanced digital communication systems. Mobile data basics are provided along with the available types of packet and circuit switched data systems. One-way and two-way paging systems are described and how they are evolving into interactive information services. The types of satellite systems and their characteristics are also covered.

Point to point microwave, wireless cable, and broadband wireless fixed wireless systems are described. The fundamentals of analog and digital radio and television broadcast systems are provided. The fundamentals of residential cordless, public cordless and WPBX telephone systems covered. WLAN basics are provided including the different versions of 802.11. Short-range Bluetooth wireless technology and profiles are explained. Billing and customer care systems and their processes are described. ... Read more

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The Radio Station is considered the standard work on radio media. It remains a concise and candid guide to the internal workings of radio stations and the radio industry in all of its various forms. Not only will you begin understand how each job at a radio station is best performed, you will learn how it meshes with those of the rest of the radio station staff. If you are uncertain of your career goals, this book provides a solid foundation in who does what, when, and why.

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Mobile satellite services are set to change with the imminent launch of satellite personal communication services (S-PCS), through the use of non-geostationary satellites. This new generation of satellites will be placed in low earth orbit or medium earth orbit, hence, introducing new satellite design concepts. One of the first texts to cover this rapidly evolving field, this text provides the reader with an overview of mobile satellite systems, from their initial introduction (Inmarsat), current satellite-PCS (referring to such systems as Globalstar), through to Satellite-UMTS and an understanding of the following:

• The design concepts associated with non-geostationary satellite systems (constellation, link budgets, Doppler)

• The concepts of UMTS (network architecture, aims, in the context of IMT-2000) and the role foreseen for the satellite component (complementary to terrestrial network, network extension, global availability)

• Inter-working between satellite and terrestrial networks (network architecture, ATM Adaptation Layer)

• Radio interface technologies (WB-CDMA, TDMA, transmission environment)

• Regulatory issues

• Future services and applications

• Potential satellite markets (prediction techniques, effect of tariffing policies on potential market)

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"A STORY THAT STAYED WITH ME!" said Isaac Asimov. Meet the Zoromes, who inspired Asimov's own characterization of his positronic robots. After spending forty million years in suspended animation while his one-man ship circles twenty thousand miles from earth, Professor Jameson awakes to discover humanity has perished and he is the only one left alive. Then he meets the Zoromes, highly advanced intellects, who have transferred their minds into near immortal metal bodies, roaming the universe in search of strange worlds and high adventure. Soon the Professor has been persuaded to accompany them in a metal body of his own. What should be the series weakness turns out to be its strength, for with trivial human passions off-screen, the author is free to focus on creating and painting wonder after wonder: planets with double suns, societies of intelligent fish, hollow planets, metal moons, cat people, twin worlds, mausoleums of vanished races... In fact, the Jameson series is one of the seminal sf works that gave  birth to the term "sense of wonder." The Interstellar Adventures of Professor Jameson #1 presents the first two short novels in this classic series: The Jameson Satellite and The Planet of the Double Sun." In the second short novel, Jameson and the Zoromes encounter a planet of two suns whose tripod inhabitants pose a problem in space exploration that threatens to end the professor's career before it has started! As Asimov would write, "What I responded to was the tantalizing glimpse of possible immortality and the vision of the world's sad death, to say nothing of the contracting spirals of the planetary orbits forty million years hence [and the way] Jones carried his Zoromes to a new and startling world in each- Jones's Zoromes - were robots really.  Their organic brains were just a detail.  Jones treated them as mechanical men, making them objective without being unfeeling, benevolent without being busybodies. Although the Zoromes remained without individual personality, I could easily recite the number-letter combinations of those who appeared most often. It is from the Zoromes, beginning with their first appearance in 'The Jameson Satellite,' that I got my own feeling for benevolent robots who could serve man with decency, as these had served Professor Jameson.  It was the Zoromes, then, who were the spiritual ancestors of my own 'positronic robots,' all of them, from Robbie to R. Daneel."

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Second in a Fantastic Series
I've been reading Science Fiction for 40 plus years now and in my opinion these are the finest series of books that I have ever had the pleasure of reading. Briefly the series revolves around a professor who shoots his body into space only millennia later to have his brain revived in metal body complete with tentacles and 4 legs! His new friends the Zoromes who spend their unending lives travelling for 100s of years through the Universe visiting Planets and systems.

Sounds weird? Yes but take the time to discover this series for yourself and be seduced by the simple art of good story telling coupled with a brilliant concept with a strong story. This better than Star Trek/Lost in Space/Battle star galactica combined!
Written back when Science fiction was great the planets visited, aliens encountered and problems solved are truly delightful. I read and reread the series countless times and they have that rare quality. They entertain you yet do not demand your brain to stretch to complex enigma or political situations. We see from the eyes (all 8 or them) from the Professor. The fact that he is a scientist/philosopher/humanist gives that wonderful insight into the worlds he visits. The nearest analogy I can think of is Herge's Tintin. Tintin interacts but he is the everyman than we can be. We become the professor and that's were the series really kicks in.
To this book 2 in the series. Firstly don t worry if you read them out of sequence. The professors tale and origin is retold as a foreward in each of the subsequent 4 books (Which for me as a regular reader annoys the hell out of me I want more adventure writing!)(*and yes I realise the irony with this cut and paste review!!)
This edition contains 3 stories as most of the books do. The first is excellent and is set n a sphere of water, entitled into the Hydrosphere. A planet yes but entirely of water except for the vast depths where there is a core or rock, possibly created over milenia by meterite strikes etc. The planet is populated and Jameson's skill as a philosopher really comes ito play. The inhabitants, semi aquatic are being raided by another race. The Zoromes help them. The second is wonderful in that the Zoromes on their journey back pass close to Earth. On a previous visit to another planet they have located a professor who has invented a time machine to view the past. A chance to good to miss for the professor they journey to the now dead and non revolving Earth to view it's past (but of course the professors future) The final story has the Zoromes visiting a sunless world and as usual they fall into trouble from an unexpected source.

You finish the book, as with all its partner series, with regret rather than relief.
Escapism at its finest. ... Read more

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ATLANTIUM Episode IXANCIENT SPY SATELLITEDid Spy Satellites fly over RenaissanceEurope? Was the early church familiar with modern high technology?Was the ancient World covered by a Hyper-Technological civilization 15,000-25,000 years ago? ATLANTIUM the serialized Book from ROC HATFIELD looks into new discoveries that are pointing to questions that mainstream science does not want to hear. Are you ready to know?

ENIGMAS WRAPPED IN MYSTERIES PACKAGED IN QUESTIONS.

Explore the ancient world of Atlantium. Science is discovering artifacts and connections to ancient advanced empires that existed 15,000 to 50,000 years ago. Who were these people? Are we descended from them? How advanced were they? Were they beings from a distant star system? All of these questions are powerful and the answers may be to intense for some people to handle. Make up your own mind…ATLANTIUM ... Read more

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A Practical Approach To Antenna Technology For Communication Satellites

This authoritative resource discusses antenna technology for communication satellites, addressing both the space and user segments. The book provides a system view of antenna applications, a description of various antenna technologies, and guidance on methodologies for antenna evaluation.

Communication Satellite Antennas begins with an overview of the parameters that characterize antennas, and goes on to cover the antenna designs, technologies, and system architectures required for communication satellite systems. Techniques to mitigate interference are covered, and the processes used in the development and characterization of antenna systems are reviewed. Discover how to:

• Adhere to the system parameters used to quantify antenna performance
• Understand the technologies used in wide coverage, earth coverage, narrow coverage, and array antennas
• Work within standard communication satellite system architectures and orbital alternatives
• Address propagation limitations and link performance
• Implement reliable antenna interference mitigation techniques
• Develop space segment antennas, including spot beam, multiple beam, adaptive uplink, active aperture, and point-to-point antennas
• Apply user segment technologies, such as reflector antenna technology, antenna sidelobe control techniques, and adaptive interference cancellation systems
• Evaluate satellite antennas and systems using rigorous methodologies

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Don't bother
As an antenna designer wanting to know more about spacecraft antennas, I found this book useless. Returned it immediately. ... Read more

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Matching folio with 14 songs, including: Daylight Fading ¥ goodnight elisabeth ¥ IÕm Not Sleeping ¥ A Long December ¥ Mercury ¥ Recovering the Satellites ¥ Walkaways ¥ and more. ... Read more

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The Satellite Technology Guide for the 21st Century clearly explains in non-technical terms the basics of satellite communications technology and how it works. This book also provides a historical background of the industry, its current status, market prospects, trends and the future of satellite communications. Fully illustrated with graphs and tables, the book contains appendices including a glossary of terms and a list of industry resources. Chapters Include:

-A Brief History of the Satellite Communications Industry;

-Overview of the Satellite Communications Industry;

-The Basics of Satellite Communications;

-The Space Segment;

-The Ground Segment;

-Satellite Services;

-VSATs;

-Satellites and the Internet;

-The Future of Satellite Communications.

An indispensable guide to the basics of satellite technology and the global industry. No other book in the market today provides a more comprehensive view of satellite technology and the industry in one easy-to-read volume at a very low price of only $20.00. ... Read more

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A genuinely practical hands-on guide for service engineers -- including a new section on the latest digital equipment.

Previous editions of this unique `hands-on' fault-finding book became the guide and mentor for thousands of service technicians and engineers in many countries and was widely adopted as a college text.

Based on many years of practical bench and field experience, the book wastes little space on theoretical principles and circuit description where it is well covered elsewhere: here the emphasis is on the practical business of fault diagnosis and repair.

Twenty chapters focus on specific aspects of the equipment, dwelling longest on the most troublesome: TV power supplies, line timebases and video deck machines. Other chapters examine test-gear, intermittent faults diagnosis in digital TV and video equipment, satellite-receiver repair techniques, interfacing/hookups and workshop practice.

A symptom index is included for easy reference. Written for PAL, the differences for those working with NISC and other standards are also covered.

Eugene Trundle is the UK's leading author on Servicing and Video Technology, and a full time TV and video service engineer. His articles appear regularly in Television and several other magazines. He is the author of the best-selling Newnes TV and Video Engineer's Pocket Book and Newnes Guide to TV and Video Technology.

- The definitive guide for service engineers, installation technicians and servicing students- Written by a practising service engineer- Includes a symptom index for easy reference and new material on the latest Digital TV and Video equipment ... Read more

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Learn the secrets of signal scrambling from the experts. This book helps readers understand how signals are decoded and encoded. Discusses the theory and techniques behind over-the-air and cable signals; provides actual descrambling projects; includes hands-on projects for building a scrambler and descrambler; and shows readers how to build a video test generator with scrambling capability. ... Read more

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In 1957 Sputnik, the world’s first man-made satellite, dazzled people as it zipped around the planet. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, more than eight thousand satellites orbited the Earth, and satellite practices such as live transmission, direct broadcasting, remote sensing, and astronomical observation had altered how we imagined ourselves in relation to others and our planet within the cosmos. In Cultures in Orbit, Lisa Parks analyzes these satellite practices and shows how they have affected meanings of "the global" and "the televisual." Parks suggests that the convergence of broadcast, satellite, and computer technologies necessitates an expanded definition of "television," one that encompasses practices of military monitoring and scientific observation as well as commercial entertainment and public broadcasting.

Roaming across the disciplines of media studies, geography, and science and technology studies, Parks examines uses of satellites by broadcasters, military officials, archaeologists, and astronomers. She looks at Our World, a live intercontinental television program that reached five hundred million viewers in 1967, and Imparja tv, an Aboriginal satellite tv network in Australia. Turning to satellites’ remote-sensing capabilities, she explores the U.S. military’s production of satellite images of the war in Bosnia as well as archaeologists’ use of satellites in the excavation of Cleopatra’s palace in Alexandria, Egypt. Parks’s reflections on how Western fantasies of control are implicated in the Hubble telescope’s views of outer space point to a broader concern: that while satellite uses promise a "global village," they also cut and divide the planet in ways that extend the hegemony of the post-industrial West. In focusing on such contradictions, Parks highlights how satellites cross paths with cultural politics and social struggles. ... Read more

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In this, his second book in the "Collector's Guide" series for Ian Allan, noted collector and expert, Chris Ailsby examines in depth the great variety of medals and political awards developed for Germany's closest allies. Providing a history of each medal and award, as well as illustrations showing both front and reverse, the book is an extremely detailed account.

Where appropriate, information is also given on noted recipients of the major awards, thus helping to make the book an essential reference work for all collectors of Third Reich Militaria. ... Read more

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bits + pieces.....
I think Chris Ailsby's book is okay for a basic primer but inaccuracies and lack of detail mar what otherwise could have been a ground-breaking volume on this subject. It is simply just pedestrian fare.

Good companion
A nice book for the beginners, gives limited but still worthy information about medals and Orders of the satellite states of Germany. ... Read more

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Analyzing the changing role of transnational news media in our evolving globalization and its impact on rapidly changing news events, The World News Prism appeals beyond the classroom to journalism professionals worldwide.

• A popular and established textbook, this 7th edition has been updated to appeal to an international audience