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EXAMPLE 14.4
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pozar_14_example_04.m

c0=299792856; % [m/s] light speed

T0=290; % [Kelvin] room temperature
k_boltz=1.380649e-23 % [J/K] Boltzmann constant

a) LINK BASE BUDGET

One can declare 1st all input variables for the budget

f0=12.45e9 % [Hz] carrier frequency

lambda0=c0/f0 % [m] carrier wavelength f0 =
1.245000000000000e+10
f1=12.2e9 % [Hz] band start lambda0 =
f2=12.7e9 % [Hz] band stop 0.024079747469880
f1 =
Pt=120 % [W] transmit power 1.220000000000000e+10
PtdB=10*log10(Pt) f2 =
1.270000000000000e+10
GtdB=34 % [dB] transmit antenna gain Pt =
Gt=10^(GtdB/10) 120
PtdB =
BW_if=20e6 % [Hz] IF Bandwidth 20.791812460476248
GtdB =
GrdB=33.5 % [dB] receiving antenna gain 34
Gr=10^(GrdB/10) Gt =
Dr_in=18 % [in] receiving dish diameter 2.511886431509580e+03
BW_if =
Tb=50 % [Kelvin] ground average (noise) brightness 20000000
GrdB =
NF_LNB_dB=.7 % [dB] LNB Noise Figure 33.500000000000000
NF_LNB=10^(NF_LNB_dB/10) Gr =
2.238721138568340e+03
% there's convention for linear noise figure to use var name F Dr_in =
% and NF for noise figure in [dB], and also that when linear amount 18
% to be called noise figure, but when same in [dB] then call it noise Tb =
% factor. Some people simplify and call it just 'Noise Figure' regardless of 50
% data format. Also reserving F for frequency related variables seems NF_LNB_dB =
reasonable. 0.700000000000000
NF_LNB =
CNR_target_dB=15 % [dB] Required minumum CNR 1.174897554939530
CNR_target=10^(CNR_target_dB/10) CNR_target_dB =
15
R=39e6 % [m] GEO sat distance to Earth station CNR_target =
31.622776601683793
R=
% Free Space Loss 39000000
L0=4*pi*R/lambda0 L0 =
2.035272398819969e+10
L0dB=20*log10(L0) L0dB =
2.061724508597985e+02

or import them from Excel spread sheet:

% xlsread(filename,-1) opens an Excel window to interactively select data

% xlsread doesn't work on new xlsxs file format T1=readtable('Basic Link Budget.xlsx')
T1=readtable('Basic Link Budget.xls')

T1 =
6×15 table
Var1 Var2 Var3 Var4 Var5 Var6 Var7 Var8 Var9 Var10 Var11 Var12 Var13 Var14
Var15
____ ____________________________ __________ ____ ___________________ __________ ________________ __________ ____ _____ _____
___________ __________________ __________ ______________________________
2 {'Transmitter Antenna Gain'} {'Gt' } NaN 2511.88643150958 {'[]' } 34 {'dB' } 1 NaN NaN {'c0' } 299792856
{'n/s' } {'light speed' }
3 {'Free Space Loss' } {'FSL' } NaN 20352706796.9892 {'[]' } 206.172443523138 {'dB' } -1 NaN NaN {'f0' } 12450000000
{0×0 char} {0×0 char }
4 {'Receiver Antenna Gain' } {'Gr' } NaN 2238.72113856834 {'[]' } 33.5 {'dB' } 1 NaN NaN {'lambda0'}
0.0240797474698795 {0×0 char} {0×0 char }
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NaN {0×0 char } {0×0 char} NaN NaN {0×0 char} NaN {0×0 char} NaN NaN NaN {'R' } 39000000
{'m' } {'Sat-Earth station distance'}
NaN {'Received Power' } {'Pr' } NaN 1.6290593008284e-12 {'W' } -87.880631062662 {'dBm' } NaN NaN NaN {0×0 char }
NaN {0×0 char} {0×0 char }
NaN {0×0 char } {0×0 char} NaN NaN {0×0 char} NaN {0×0 char} NaN NaN NaN {'pi' } 3.14159
{0×0 char} {0×0 char }

Because often spread sheets are populated with additional data that would take time for MATLAB coding to remove, one could go straight for the spread
sheet fields of interest:

T2=xlsread('Basic Link Budget.xls',1,'G2:G5') T2 =

1.0e+02 *
0.507918124604762
0.340000000000000
2.061724435231383
0.335000000000000

T3=xlsread('Basic Link Budget.xls',1,'I2:I5') T3 =

1
1
-1
1

T2=T2.*T3 T2 =
1.0e+02 *
0.507918124604762
0.340000000000000
-2.061724435231383
0.335000000000000

Variables assignment could be

PtdBm=T2(1) PtdBm =
GtdB=T2(2) 50.791812460476251
L0dB=T2(3) GtdB =
GrdB=T2(4) 34
L0dB =
-2.061724435231383e+02
GrdB =
33.500000000000000

Or taking into account units stored in additional spread sheet column. This way the solution is double checked regarding linear/dB/dBm 'spill-overs'

This basic Link Budget closes with:

Prx_dBm=sum(T2) Prx_dBm =
-87.880631062662019
Prx=10^((Prx_dBm-30)/10) Prx =
1.629059300828404e-12

b) G/T

Ta=Tb % antenna facing uniform background noise Ta =

50
T_LNB=(NF_LNB-1)*T0 T_LNB =
50.720290932463563
Te=Ta+T_LNB Te =
1.007202909324636e+02
G_ov_T=Gr/Te G_ov_T =
22.227111516878757
G_ov_T_dB=10*log10(G_ov_T) G_ov_T_dB =
13.468830284305646

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c) CNR at LNB output

G_LNB_dB=20; % no need to, but having a guess

G_LNB=10^(G_LNB_dB/10) G_LNB =
100
CNR=Prx*G_LNB/(k_boltz*Te*BW_if*G_LNB) CNR =
CNR_dB=10*log10(CNR) 58.574237502414100
CNR_dB =
17.677066438221477

d) LINK MARGIN

Link_Margin_dB=CNR_dB-CNR_target_dB Link_Margin_dB =
2.677066438221477

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Where is the whole collection of exercises?

This exercise is part of the collection of exercises Microwave Engineering POZAR 4th ed solved with MATLAB available in this website:
https://jgb2012.wixsite.com/microwave-eng-matlab

How can one get the main literature reference?

For instance from:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Microwave-Engineering-David-M-Pozar/dp/0470631554

What about the solutions manual?

It's freely available https://www.scribd.com/doc/176505749/Microwave-engineering-pozar-4th-Ed-solutions-manual

For educational purposes only: https://www.copyrightuser.org/understand/exceptions/education/

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