Satellite Based Global Cellular Communications

Complete with new information on frequency management, this guide delivers the tools you need to determine the spectrum and regulatory requirements for providing global data and voice service; calculate orbital geometries; deal with different propagation media; design ground receivers that offer the best voice quality, lowest power consumption, and optimum antenna pattern coverage; minimize interference between signals; and assure quality performance in a hostile transmission environment. Pattan also gives you an eye-opening preview of future systems that will provide global communications near the end of this millennium. Go global now ... with the guide that launches you into the cutting edge of communications!