List of Practicals for Satellite Communication

By- Prof. Alpesh. H. Dafda (sadafda@gmail.com)

1 2 To write a program to observe the variations in the antenna look angles for the earth station antennas. (look_angle_variation.m) To write a program to calculate to determine the limits of visibility for an earth station. (limits_of_visibility.m) To obtain the plot of Orbital altitude versus satellite antenna diameter. ( altitude_vs_ant_diameter.m) To write a Program for Estimated topospheric attenuation due to Oxygen and water. ( tropospheric_attenuation.m) To write a Program for plot of Semimajor axis versus rate of change of argument of perigee. (argument_of_perigee_change.m) To write program to calculate the rain attenuation(in dB) for horizontal polarization, vertical polarization and circular polarization for satellite wave propagation. (rain_attenuation_calculation.m) To write a program to determine the combined carrier to noise power spectral density ratio for satellite link budget. (C_2_No_calculation.m) To determine the degradation in the downlink C/I ratio when satellite orbital spacing is reduced. (degradation_in_C2I.m) To write a program to plot the degradation in downlink C/I. (antenna_gain_pattern_plot.m) 10 To plot the variation in Carrier to Noise power spectral density ratio(uplink,downlink and combined)for changes in the input SFD for uplink and EIRP for downlink.( EIRP_vs_C2No_plot.m) To write a program for plotting Half power beamwidth Vs maximum number of days sun transit occurs at an earth station. (sun_transit.m) 12 To write a program for for plotting BER vs Eb/No for BPSK signal for SatCom (BER_BPSK_SATCOM.m)

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