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This part of the website is a repository for some of the lecture notes and supporting material for two university courses. I teach the Satellite Communications lectures on the MSc in Telecomms and Management at the University of Wales (Newport) and a one day introductory course at the University of Glamorgan.

Note that much of this material is in password protected. Passwords will be emailed to students throughout the course.

University of Wales (Newport) Lecture Slides

Maths 1: Logarithms and decibels

Maths 2: Spherical Trig

Satcom Fundamentals

Spaceflight Dynamics & Satellite Systems

Link Budgets 1

Link Budgets 2

Antennae & Ground Terminals

Which is better, a 1 dB pay rise or a 20% pay rise?

SIne and cosine rules on a sphere

Lecture 1. An overview of satellite communications

Lecture 2. Orbits & the main subsystems of a satellite

Lecture 3. The principles of link budgetting

Lecture 4. Rain loss, pointing loss, polarisation, shadowing etc

Lecture 5. Antenna principles and ground terminal design

Lecture 6. An overview of modulation and coding schemes

Lecture 7: Multiple Acccess and satellite telephony

Lecture 8: Satellite broadcast and Internet over satellite

Lecture 9: Revision and worked example

Notes on a technique to estimate rain margins.

Answer to the three questions from lecture 5

University of Wales (Newport) Past papers

2008/9 Paper 1

2008/9 Paper 1 Answers

2008/9 Paper 2

2008/9 Paper 2 Answers

Two questions

The model answers to the exam questions

Two more questions from the resit paper

Model answers to the resit paper

University of Wales (Newport) Labwork

Labwork

The labwork uses Satellite Tookit (STK), the industry standard software for dynamically simuating satellite systems. An STK licence will be issued to students as required during the course.

University of Glamorgan Lectures

Satcom Fundamentals

Link Budgets

Earth Stations

Communications via Satellite