EO 436 governing operations of CATV

EO 205 regulation of CATV

Office Order 87-08-2004 mobile phone dealers permit
07-08-2004 Mobile phone repair
08-08-2004 Mobile phone dealer/retail/base/purchase/sale
Horn most commonly used microwave antenna
SSB uses mechanical filters
Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) filter for RF filters (TV frequencies)
Plumbicon (lead oxide) minimum lag
+6 VU (volume unit) VF level to be placed on voice signals
+0 VU VF level to be placed on telephone line/channel
Despun antenna spins to focus on a fixed location on the earth
Attitude control orientation of satellite on relationship to earth and sun
Apogee kick motor
TTC Telemetry and Tracking Control
Helical antennas used because of Faraday effect
Faraday screen minimize losses (for transmitter)
Analog cell phone:
Class I 0.6W
Class II 1.6W
Class III 3W
121.5 MHz aeronautical distress frequency
2182 kHz maritime distress frequency
LORAN C/D 100 kHz; 460m or mile absolute accuracy, 100m relative accuracy
Class I Cable TV Channel/Station-- off-the-air channels, DBS feeds
Class II w/o auxiliary equipment scrambling
Class IV provides signaling path
Discone antenna vertical polarization; broadband
Cellular phone FM (AMPS)

12 kHz deviation

5150 m/s speed of sound in steel at 1 atm

TDM 8s per time slot
AMPS 10 kbps per channel
D-AMPS 30 kbps combines 3 AMPS channels
Cable TV:
16 dB - matching (RF)

28 dB terminal isolation
40 dB sound carrier isolator
60 dB spurious radiation rejection
80 dB cross modulation
-60 dB adjacent channel isolation

1 dB audio signal level

2 dB
36 dB video SNR for modulator
3G UMTS (universal mobile telephone system); 2001
IS-95 not TDMA; Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum- Mobile and Telephone
IMT 2000 144 kbps for fast vehicles; 384 kbps for pedestrians and slow vehicles
PD 1986 MTRCB
EO 59 mandatory interconnection of telecommunications networks
1550 nm used because of least losses
RA 9292 approved by GMA on April 17, 2004
EO 196 Philippine Satellite
Satellite closet offshoot of TTC (building code)
Doppler radar
Helmholtz resonator
GPS 20,200km; 60 spacing between orbital planes; 6 orbital planes; 55 inclination
Poke-through in building construction (telephone installation); wires poke through fire-resistant floor
Firewire connects cameras, etc. to computer
H.261 video conferencing over telephone line
MP3 MPEG-2 audio layer 3
MPEG-1 low-rate video used in CD- ROM
MPEG-4 DivX video compression
PL-259 UHF connector
Type N connector coax connector; expensive but good
7:8 dissonant tone ratio
Consonant tones pleasant tones; antonym of dissonant
1:1.38 max. tolerable VSWR of something
American concert A 440Hz
One octave above middle C 524Hz
Proxima centauri nearest star to solar system
Aurora borealis rapid fluttering; ionic disturbance
10 octaves human hearing range
Ionosonde measures virtual height

Brillouin scattering slight frequency change; modulation of light by the thermal energy in the material; produces
phonons and photons
Mie scattering caused by particles that have the size of wavelength
Splatter excess sidebands
J3E 1.4kHz difference between carrier and assigned frequency
F3 for voice
Data rates:
GPRS >170 kbps
EDGE >384 kbps
3G >2 Mbps
6 MHz terrestrial 19.39 Mbps
6 MHz data (cable modem) 27 Mbps
CB SSB 12W PEP
3.1 m3/person cinema volume level
NAVTEX texting system for ships; maritime safety weather; narrowband direct printing telegraphy
Slot antenna used for navi systems; aerodynamic
Hole for wavelength and waveguide wavemeter coupling
Probe coupling for waveguide
Loop coupling for waveguide
4.5 MHz + 1 MHz intercarrier
1.25 MHz + 250 kHz from lower edge
3.579545 MHz chroma subcarrier
V.90 56 kbps for telephone line
Flicker noise voltages:
0.02-0.2 V metal film
0.05-0.3 V carbon film
0.1-3.0 V carbon composition
0.01-0.2 V wirewound
IMT2000 not 3G
02 absorption 5 mm, 2.5 mm
Water vapor 1.35 cm, 1.7 mm
IMSI international mobile subscriber identification
MIN mobile ID number
WCDMA 1.25W
DWDM dense wavelength div mux

COW cellsite; emergency purposes; on flatbed of tractor or trailer

Stripline 2 ground planes; sandwich
Microstrip
802.3 defacto Ethernet; CSMA/ CD LAN
100 Mbps Ethernet 100 m
Token ring 4 or 16 Mbps
UTC universal coordinated time
Why are cable channels converted to VHF from UHF? to reduce losses in coax cable
Hard line coax with hard shield
Twinax
Slow wave structure forces electron beam to move slowly
C-band transponder guard band 4 MHz
IF for TV receivers 36-46 MHz
Electron spin in ferrites; due to magnetic field; precession
PVC cover of coax
Polytetraflouroethylene Teflon
Polyethylene good for outdoor cables
Cross-over cable low capacity/number of computers; will do in place of a hub
Electroluminescence LED action
Radiometry measuring RF spectrum
Photometry
Luminosity lumens/watt
Aperture antenna
40 km microwave repeater distance
56 km TV broadcast radius
Omega raw system; 88-98% of earth
Radar depends on:
Distance speed of pulse
Altitude vertical beamwidth
Direction directivity of antenna
UHF channel noise figure 9 dB or better
RLE takes advantage of redundancies in bit stream
GFSK modulation used in Digital European Cordless Telephone (DECT)
GSM 13 kbps speech coding rate
CATV and head-end operation requires licensed commercial telephone operator
Critical frequency of E layer 4 MHz
Gimmick wire that acts as a capacitor; capacitance can be changes by bending wire to one side or another

Public key for encrypting signal

Private key for decryption
Why analog transmission rather than digital transmission of CATV in fiber optic medium? easier to just modulate whole
RF spectrum that having to demodulate, demux, encode, etc.
On-hook loop voltage (telephone) -48Vdc
Side tone echo from Tx side to Rx side
Ringback sent to the calling station to inform that call is in progress
Erlang C blocked calls delayed until served/satisfied
Cell site D/R ratio distance required before reuse; R cellsite radius; Cochannel Interference Reduction Factor
Satellites spatial isolation frequency reuse by aiming beams at different locations (spaced-enough)
Base station $500,000 - $750,000 to put up
1 dB, 2 dB visual signal level throughout video channel BW
Why is it easier to analyze transmission lines at low frequency? low L and C, leaving only resistive component
Multi-mode fiber easier to work with than single mode; wider acceptance angle
Why is height still important for mobile telephone transmitter antenna? for more direct path; less reflections
Soliton any optical field that does not change during propagation because of a balance between nonlinear and linear
effects in a medium
SONET brings together the North American and European digital mux hierarchies
Passive optical network all-fiber access systems intended for residential applications
Single-mode fiber width=3 (wavelength of the light carrier)
Cryogenic cooling lowers the operating temperature of receivers to reduce noise levels
SSB envelope delay distortion test 1800 Hz
Speech power typically to 1/3 of PEP
CATV channels between channels 6 and 7 (wideband); above channel 13 (superband)
VCR data FM modulation
Superjumbogroup 10,800 channels
GPS user segment, space segment, control segment; main control Falcon Air Base, Colorado, USA
Magic T hybrid T
Feed horn horn amplifier that feeds a reflector
100 dB exposure 20 mins
Datawire term for the communication channel over which data is transmitted
Slope detector vulnerable to noise degradation
Ratio detector more amplitude dependent but lower demodulated signal level (50%)
Varactor diode (for direct FM) 12:1 ratio of capacitance
IF amp most of the receivers selectivity/gain
SSB signals more prone to frequency distortion because theres no carrier to serve as reference
Lattice modulator most commonly used SSB modulator
Losses in fiber optic cable material/absorption losses, scattering losses, dispersion losses
Splice is better that connectors because there is no air gap

PCS plastic-clad silica; uses silicon plastic

Fiber construction:
Glass low attenuation; brittle
Plastic high attenuation
Radar 2 types: continuous wave (CW) and pulsed
TACS 1G system used in England; 8 kbps data rate
LIDAR optical version of radar; light direction and ranging
Frequencies directly above 300 GHz millimetric waves
Sunlight radiation 300nm-2000nm (UV to infrared)
Human ear best response 1-4 kHz
If the desired area to capture cannot fit into the cameras field of view, use a lens with shorter focal length
Ultor main accelerating anode
Grid-dye meter/detector for measuring RF current/power in antenna; for measuring resonant frequency of RF circuits
Hamming code corrects 1 bit only
TDD time division duplexing 2 way communication channels are separated in time via time slots
Microwave communication is being used because of wide bandwidth
To protect against fading frequency diversity; space diversity
Fresnel reflection reflection of waves through 2 media; involves materials w/ different index of refraction; also involves
angle; reflection of part of incident light
Initial payload main satellite in the satellite launch
8-VSB standard for digital TV
Why digital TV ? possibly less BW, more immunity to noise, more signal processing
For UHF frequencies, transmission lines are used in place of LC networks.
Interlacing technique to reduce flicker of TV picture w/o increasing BW
No. of scanning lines (conventional TV) 525
Effective no. of scanning lines (utilization factor) (525) = resolution of picture
HDTV up to 1125 lines; 5 times more video info compared to conventional TV picture
Video signal w/o sync pulse noncomposite video signal
Commercial (analog) telephone service NTT, 1979
Problem of 1G a phones code can be stole and copied clone fraud
Why is it hard to transmit music using SSB? it is difficult to produce 90 phase shift for AF in the 5-10 kHz range
Modern pool alternative to having a dedicated modem + telephone line connection for each workstation
Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) part of most aircraft/ships today
Republic and Titanic (1910 and 1912) sinkings led to mandatory 24-hr ship-to-shore communications
Anisochronous no relationship in the time interval (chronous) between Tx and Rx data
Dolby AC-3 surround sound sound with compressed data rates

Microphones:
Carbon economical
Dynamic
Condenser weak response
Broadband wireless access for fixed, nomadic, mobile:
In MHz:
450-470

2400-2483

5150-5350

1900-1910

2500-2700

5470-5850

1980-1990

3400-3600

10150-10650

SUF for 3G (per MHz, M-million):

Frequency

paired

unpaired

5 MHz

P 5M

P 3M

8M

6M

5th-10th
th

th

10 -15 10M
>15

th

8M
15M

12M

Ambiophony adjusting reverberation by providing loudspeaker feedback

2% of main signal to provide minimum interference
Bluetooth IEEE 802.15; 720 kbps; 1mW
Wimax 802.16
Zigbee 802.15.4; cost-efficient; low power; low data rate
Wifi 802.11b; 11 Mbps; 54 Mbps
Vinton Cerf father of internet
ITU-T telecommunications standards bureau
William Gibson 1984; coined cyberspace in Neuromancer
EO 467
EO 205 regulation of CATV
EO 101 improvement of LEC service
EO 469 satellite; March 17, 1998
1% harmonic distortion for CATV
Range of CDMA 13 miles; BW = 1.23 MHz
Birth of WWW 1991
1918 superhet receiver; Edwin Armstrong
820 nm 2.5 dB Rayleigh loss
0.7 m 100 m IR wavelength
Radio Act of 1910 first attempt at radio regulation
Hydrazine fuel for jet thrusters
Middle C 262 Hz
Cavity resonator high Q parallel LC circuit
Hoghorn parabolic cylinder plus horn antenna

15 yrs max permit length of CATV operator authentication

Iridium 780 km; 66 satellites
1978 first GPS satellite launched
L band used for navigation
3G 2 to 4 times 2G
2G 3000-20,000 people per cell site
1G 1000 people, 50 radio channels
Cell site 10-50W
-L network/ inductive coupling against harmonics/ greatest harmonic suppression
Digital microwave PSK/QAM
Cable TV supplying power and signals 30 Vac or 60 Vac
UWB 20/30 ft.; 500 MHz or 20% of center frequency
Randall and Boot some type of magnetron
Beamwidth of horn antenna 10 - 60
Thick Ethernet 10 Base 5 (old thick Ethernet)
Thin Ethernet cheapernet
Button microphone used in telephones
Telemetry 481.25 - 481.725; 486.25 - 486.725
CB 26.965-27.475 MHz
International AM station min 50 kW
P 900 license fee for head-end licensing
F-type connector commonly used for TV, etc.; cheap
Cyan 90 leading color burst
125 m cladding diameter
Highest sunlight power at 500 nm
IS-136 North American digital cellphone standard
IS-95 CDMA
Gyrotron high power; >100GHz; USSR 1971
Backward-wave oscillator (BWO) TWT + slow wave structure (RF + e-beam)
CB antenna height 60 ft. above ground; 20 ft. above building
Jabber random data sent by NIC
9pm-7am no push/broadcast messages in paid subscription for such messages
For 2 kW transmit power, 2860W power
Velocity factor 0.9 twin lead; 0.9 open wire; 0.5-0.9 in general
Shift register used as bit-splitter
Phase splitter push-pull amplifier
Input of quadrature phase detector differential amplifier