GLONASS 11 hrs and 15 min period; 24 satellites; 19,100 km; 64.

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GPS predictable accuracies:

Horizontal
PPS
22m
SPS
100m

Vertical
27.7m
156m

Time
200ns
340ns

WiFi 11/54 Mbps

Cable TV minimum gain at channel 13 = 22 dB (same as trunk amplifier)
Blackouts at sunlit surface, interrupting HF communications:
R1 weak degradation, occasional loss of signal
R2 limited area, tens of minutes
R3 wide area, about 1 hour
R4 most of the surface, a few hours
R5 all, several hours
Efficiency of parabolic antenna 54-55% - general microvawe; 65% - radar
Raman scattering energy interacts with vibration patters of lattice
WiFi range 45m indoor; 90m outdoor
Cable TV relay service 12.17 GHz 13.20 GHz
Bluetooth devices:
Class I 20 dBm, 100m
Class II 4 dBm, 10m
Class III 0 dBm, 10cm
CB A3E 4W
Gyrotron USSR, 1970s; 1kW CW; 100 GHz
Vic Hayes father of WiFi
Beverage antenna 2 or more wavelengths
EO 467 March 1998; national policy for international satellite communications
EO 469 establishment of National Info tech Commission
EO 109 for improving service of LEC
CATV 3% - maximum envelope distortion; 1% - harmonic (aural) distortion
5 mW power of cordless phone/devices
Analog cellphone 2% of main signal for minimum interference
36 dB visual signal to system noise SNR, or to cochannel signal
D-AMPS TDMA frame = 1944 bits
Jarred to clear a packed single-button microphone
8-PSK EDGE
NTC Commissioner Abraham Abesamis
BPSK CDMA (?)
1.4 3.4 sec reverberation time of church
7.1 9.9 volume per person in church
Helical antenna minimum of 3 turns, maximum of 20 turns
Lamberbian reflection incident energy is partially absorbed and partially reflected in all
directions
Noise blanking turn off receiver to send control burst signal
Amateur stations use VFO
Antodyne converter LO + mixer in one; using transistor or tube
Gyroscopic/ flywheel effect spinning satellite faces the same way
GSM downlink frequency 935 960 MHz
Pi/4 DQPSK

Noise equivalent power current required to produce power equal to internal noise of device
WEP security of WiFi
19CP4 19 diagonal
INWG Vinton Cerf (1st head 1972); International Networking Group
Ultor voltage of 35 tube = 30kV
FDDI 100 Mbps LAN signaling; can also be used with coax
Zigbee high-level protocol for low-power digital radio
Codenames for Bluetooth Lisbon then Seattle
Harald Blatand Danish King; Bluetooth was named after him
Free-space optics near-infrared laser
Vertically-stacked antennas decreases power in vertical plane; more power in horizontal
plane
Diatonic scale full of consonant tones
Discordant interval interval between unpleasant tones
5-bit Baudot Code used for TTY communication
M88 every 9000 ft. (88 mH)
GPRS uplink 14 kbps
10 kHz frequency for hand-off or for ending call
FM modulating frequencies (required) 50 Hz 16 kHz (use 16 kHz if 15 is not among
choices)
D-AMPS VSELP coding (vector-sum excited)
GSM RPE-LPC (regular pulse excited)
High-Q loopstick used in CB broadcast receiver
Magnetron diode vacuum tube; powers to MW range
Cabling to prevent moisture damage to fiber-optic cable
SSB 9 dB or 84% savings
S-unit 6 dB
CATV 6 dB noise figure for mid, super, high band; 5 dB noise figure for sub, 10-band (?)
674-728 MHz extension of UHF TV band by NTC
LMDS two-way wireless broadband service; 27-31 GHz
T-1 uses TDM + PCM
WiMax 802.16; 50 km theoretical range; 3-5 miles (5-8 km) practical range
WiBro counterpart in South Korea
1998 IBM, Ericsson, Nokia, etc. Bluetooth
Telecommunications Standardization Bureau secretarial functions for ITU-T; provides
standards; gets standards from different international organizations
Opto-acoustic transducer AF-modulated light causes crystal to vibrate at AF
Altimeter station measures altitude
Threshold effect phenomenon associated with strong FM signal
RS 232C 50 ft.
500 m range of Ethernet (thick) 10 Base 5
Standard classical Ethernet uses coax
Active noise control cancel out noise with signal of equal strength and opposite phase
9.6 s listening period for ehternet (CSMA/CD)
C3 C-message (?) for private switched networks
A and B weighting response of human ear to low-level and high-level sounds, respectively
80% for 100% intelligibility of voice
Articulation test for testing voice intelligibility
Articulation efficiency number of correct ____ syllables over total syllables
U-weighting frequency response weighting in the presence of ultrasound
Transit not a ground-based navigation system
Tuning screw put in waveguide to vary capacitance/inductance

Degree of sound absorption a.k.a. transmission loss

Cat-5 UTP cable 100 Mbps
For gigabit Ethernet 4 paors of UTP need to be used
3-point tracking possible through padder capacitor
Drift of color bars problem with AFPC of color oscillator
Cross color color signal interpreted as luminance, results in dots on screen
Bipolar violation 2 consecutive 1s with same polarity
All colors at 75% modulation except gray TV
I 1.3 MHz bandwith
Q 0.5 MHz bandwidth
Sequence in tuning oscillator, driver, power amp
Orbit used in navigational system circular, polar orbit
Echo suppressor if VNL exceeds 2.5 dB
Full duplex not used if echo suppressors are enabled
55 dBmV CATV (multichannel _____)
SDLC data link protocol used in system network A ____
Moderate sound level 30 dB
LEO satellites closer to earth; more satellites used are in LEO; max 1500 km
1 TV field recorded per slant track VCR (?)
480 p 640 x 480 progressive digital TV
Directional coupler samples energy in the direction of the signal transmission
Audio layers MP1, MP2, MP3 MPEG-1 audio layer 1-3
WAV 3-minute song, 10 MB
MP3 3-minute song, 3 MB
TWT wide bandwidth
Length of ehternet packet 12 kb
Randall and Boot created cavity magnetron
PVC used for coating indoor coax cables; fire-retardant properties
Overtone additional tone produced other than fundamental tone
Capcode address of particular pager
Z-wave proprietary control; rival to zigbee
f-rating (cameras) F-stop number
lead time for construction of a base station 6 months to 1 year
L-band 1530-2700 MHz
P300 annual inspection fee for CATV stations
BNC and RJ-49 connectors come with the NIC
hotspot geographical region covered by WiFi access points
Simplex relay required to make it full break-in
In a phasing SSB transmitter, what determines degree of unwanted sideband suppression? the
quality of the phase shift
Responsivity unit in amperes/watt; amount of current produced by incident light energy
Frequency synthesizer uses PLL to generate LO frequencies
Shared Wireless Access Protocol allows computer, appliances, peripheral devices to access
each other w/o the use of additional wires
Unshift on Space (USOS) to ensure that figure shift/letter shift does not stay on for too long
and affect the transmitted message
ISM band 2.4 GHz
Letter boxing wide aspect ratio (w/o increase in BW)
Faraday screen/shield against electrostatic ____
Screening out intermodulation frequencies use of filters and wave traps
2 Gbps data rate of single-mode step index fiber

Regenerative repeater/transponder demodulates the receive signal, then modulates the

signal again
Hybrid transformer converts between 2-wire and 4-wire
V.32 9600 bps; full-duplex standard
Hybrid coil allows transmissions in both directions over one line only
Network interconnection of 2 or more stations that can communicate w/ one another
Numerically-controlled oscillator output frequency is controlled or set by a binary number
Basic telephone exchange radio system wireless telephone instead of wires
Frequency frogging
Chain drive in robots; transfer power from actuator to manipulator/end effector
Ladle gripper for liquids (end effector)
Spectral purity absence of spurious frequencies
Purity color beams strike proper phosphors
6-15 sec, 14.4 kbps group III fax
V.34 bis 33.6 kbps Super group III fax
Analog drum scanner when translated from light to electric, FM is used
Puncture voltage to break dielectric
SONET 51.84 Mbpd base rate for elec/optical
Hole trap prevents hole current because of recombination
Stadimetry measures distance of object when L/W/H given
Ignitron mercury-vapor controlled rectifier
Blue stuff between plate and cathode gas in tube
Fluxgate magnetometer
5% peak-to-peak variation in visual signal caused by low frequency interference
Christian Hulsmeyer radar
Kendall effect distortion caused in fax modulation
Fax 4 groups
12 dB max variation in visual signal level (CATV) over 24 hours
Acyclic DC voltage generated doesnt change direction w/ respect to the generating element
46 dB SNR of visual signal level over RMS of coherent disturbances (e.g. intermodulation or
frequencies that are offset wrongly)
CATV head-end license P3000 per year
MPD/MPSCD permit P1200 per year
CATV operation test every calendar year, interval should be less than 14 months; keep log of
test for at least 5 years
Copy watch keep continuous watch; type of radio communications watch
Doherty linear high efficiency
NEC D3 numeric paging standard
Antenna tuner Z-matching for antenna, transmission line, Tx
Unbalanced T-attenuator network maintains high impedance
CB 36.965 27.405 MHz; 40 channels, 8 km
780 nm, 950 nm used for IR communications
Used in submarine LF/VLF trailing wire antenna
Intelsat 21 satellites; most distributed network
Zero-adjusting for zeroing out meters
1520 m/s speed of sound at 25C in sea water
Howl feedback related
Backhaul transmission of signal from BTS to mobile switching center, then to PSTN
Radar lock rotating antenna
Record locking to prevent others from accessing a record that is currently being modified by
a user
GPS time accuracy 300 ns

20 ppm aircraft stations transmission (frequency tolerance)

1.5 ms line turn around
C-band (4th channel) 3.84 GHz downlink
Pantelegraph first fax (1861)
Patch antennas formed by using microstrip on PCB
PCS narrowband at 900 MHz
1.9 GHz
Acoustician practitioner of acoustics
Transduction study of generation/measurement of sound from different transducers; branch
of acoustics
Two-tone test for testing SSB Transmitters
Beverage antenna resistive termination at one side, signal on the other side of a long wire
CD holes and flats (pits and lands)
Inertial navi system strapdown system; sensors are connected to chassis of vehicle
Transit least accuracy among navi systems
SID system identification; lets mobile know whether it is in its home NW or is roaming
MLS not global coverage
To increase modulation level, use peak limiter
Burst separator on during horizontal blanking
Video pre-amp not tuned to 3.58 MHz oscillator
CW AF filter BW 500 -1000 Hz
BFO used for SSB and CW receivers
TV receiver 0.5 mrem/hr from 5cm
LEO satellites for complete coverage 200 satellites
100 Base Tx uses Ethernet standard 3-level Manchester code
0.92 MHz best frequency between color and sound carrier
Baseband w/ signaling 1 channel only
Payload pointer used in SONET for compensating for different sizes/speeds of transmitted
signals
If perfectly grounded, effective length is doubled.
Y-signal responsible for contrast in TV signal
Acid depolarizer e.g. nitric acid; to reduce polarization in storage battery
Nickel-zinc short life cycle
BNC Baby Neill-Concelman, Bayonet Nut Connector, British Naval Connector
8 to 14 _____ to ensure 0 and 1 transitions
Aperture antenna beamwidth varies according to dimensions of horn antenna
PIN diode AM at high frequencies
GUNN diode resonant frequency depends on thickness
Loop test
LMDS/MMDS 30 miles range
Performance bond P300 million; to be paid in 90 days
rbe measure of strength of radiation compared to x-ray
2.3 GHz band 2.305 2320 MHz, 2345 2360 MHz
Header raceway w/in or just under the floor; connects distribution ducts to terminal equipment
Q-band used by military
WiMax 500 kbps 2 Mbps
Bluetooth 2.0 enhanced data rate 2.1 Mbps
Ramsauer effect absorption of slow-moving electrons by intervening material
Barnett effect spinning ferromagnetic material
Aryton-Perry winding cancels inductance by having current flow in 2 opposite paths
Aryton shunt high-R shunt; preserves damping in galvanometer
Ruhmkorff coil magnetic interrupter

Flexode flexible diode; PN-junction can be moved to either direction

Trigistor bistable thyristor; like a flip flop
Varhour meter cumulative measure of reactive power
Advance wire Cu and Ni; used of wirewound resistors
Rate effect anode transients (?) cause pnpn to enter high-conduction state
Spark test porosity of insulator
10-12 m2 surface area of absorbent for reverberation test
4.65 m3/person Italian-type opera house
80 8000 Hz natural speech
160 -8000 Hz preferred for monaural sound reproduction
Content provider manages database that provide info from an info provider
Opt-in subscribe to push messages
Opt-out unsubscribe to push messages
Spam unsolicited surveys/ads
SDLC data link protocol used for system network architecture messages
Bit-oriented protocol uses flag field for transparency
PAN urgency signal for radio telegraphy
PARAMP low noise, low power, uses varactor to produce gain
80% articulation frequency 100% intelligibility
1750 s envelope delay distortion for 800/3600
Flat NW not hierarchical structure; comp. determines most direct route
Sonometer mechanical resonance of vibration of variable length string
Phonoelectrocardioscope sound of heartbeat + ECG
Psyhogalvanometer measures electric currents in response to emotional stress
KOH electrolyte for NiCAD; potassium hydroxide
SiO2 used for surface passivation of microelectronic circuits; silicon dioxide
PbSO4 conversion of electrolyte in lead acid; lead sulfate
5 mils or 125 m fiber thickness
Photoswitch fast switch tripped by radiation
Rhumbatron lumped L and C, produces GHz of oscillator at kW of power
AFPC on color oscillator uses crystal-ringer circuit (TV receiver); if with problems, drifting
color bars results
Return code affects future functions in computer program
Color-under color signal translated to lower frequency
Fiber grating produced by applying UV light; changes in refractive index of fiber
Blaise Pascal 17th century adding machine
Ionosphere the higher the altitude, the lower the index of refraction
DLP 13 dB below TLP
BPF demux of FDM
V.24 describes family of interchange circuits
250 mV outdoor _____ radio _____devices (?); for wireless data network
C3 C-weighted line conditioning for private switched networks
Paging signal to mobile (?) that informs of call status change
Private key symmetric key cryptography
UPT Universal Personal Telecomm (?) terminal; can operate anywhere
Hemispheric beam global coverage
Used for aviation dynamic microphone
Dynamic and ribbon use permanent magnets
Dielectric constant of glass 7.8
IMT2000 generic 3G specification
Why is attenuation loss better than dispersion loss? attenuation loss can be made up by
optical amplifier, dispersion loss has to be fixed by regenerative repeaters (expensive)

Synchronous demodulation to get the color signal from the color oscillator
1880 1900 MHz for new CMTS (?)
825 -845 MHz, 870 890 MHz for existing CMTS
In 2 GHz range 2110 2170 MHz, 2010 2025 MHz
P300 million performance bond; paid 90 days after effectivity of circular
4 CATV; cascading amplifiers; maximum number of amplifiers
GSM or TDMA 8 time slots
Hyperframe largest time block in GSM