The Telecommunications and Data Acquisition Progress Report 42-76

October-December 1983

E. C. Posner
Editor


February 15, 1984

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National Aeronautics and
Space Administration

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California


Contents

Preface

OSTDS TASKS
DSN Advanced Systems
TRACKING AND GROUND-BASED NAVIGATION

Another Look at the Optimum Frequencies for a Water Vapor Radiometer
G. M. Resch
NASA Code 310-10-60-55-00

Inversion Algorithms for Water Vapor Radiometers Operating at 20.7 and 31.4 GHz
G. M. Resch
NASA Code 310-10-60-55-00

COMMUNICATIONS, SPACECRAFT-GROUND

DSN Microwave Antenna Holography
D. J. Rochblatt and B. L. Seidel
NASA Code 310-20-65-54-00

Loop Gain and Circuit Parameters for Residual Carrier Tracking in the Advanced DSN Block V Receiver
P. H. Young
NASA Code 310-20-66-18-00

X-Band Uplink Ground Systems Development
C. E. Johns
NASA Code 310-20-64-07-00

Doppler System Phase Transfer Functions for a System With an X-Band Uplink and X-Band and S-Band Downlinks
M. A. Koerner
NASA Code 310-20-64-07-00

STATION CONTROL AND SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY

Transfer Function Bounds for Partial-Unit-Memory Convolutional Codes Based on Reduced State Diagram
P. J. Lee
NASA Code 310-30-71-83-02

Simulations for Full Unit-Memory and Partial Unit-Memory Convolutional Codes With Real-Time Minimal-Byte-Error Probability Decoding Algorithm
Q. D. Vo
NASA Code 310-30-71-83-02

Signal-to-Noise Ratio and Combiner Weight Estimation for Symbol Stream Combining
Q. D. Vo
NASA Code 310-30-70-84-06

A Systolic VLSI Design of a Pipeline Reed-Solomon Decoder
H. M. Shao, T. K. Truong, L. J. Deutsch, J. H. Yuen, and I. S. Reed
NASA Code 310-30-70-84-08

DSN Systems Implementation
CAPABILITIES FOR NEW PROJECTS

ISEE-3 Microwave Filter Requirements
J. L. Galvez, H. Marlin, and P. Stanton
NASA Code 314-40-51-60-01

Telemetry Simulation Assembly Implementation in the DSN
M. E. Alberda
NASA Code 314-30-53-29-08

Operator Workload Measurement Validation for the Mark IV-A DSCC Monitor and Control Subsystem
M. Le May, E. E. Hird, and B. Y. Rodriquez
NASA Code 311-03-53-29-18

First Results of GPS Time Transfer to Australia
J. McK. Luck, J. R. Woodger, J. E. Wells, P. N. Churchill, and P. A. Clements
NASA Code 314-30-56-56-19

Implementation of Large Antennas for Deep Space Mission Support
R. Stevens
NASA Code 055-40-91-00-96

NETWORK SUSTAINING

Enhanced Radio Frequency Carrier Margin Improvement for an Array of Receiving Systems With Unequal Predetection Signal-to-Noise Ratios
M. H. Brockman
NASA Code 311-03-41-82-11

Data and Information Systems
DATA SYSTEM STANDARDS

Optimum Cyclic Redundancy Codes for Noisier Channels
P. Merkey and E. C. Posner
NASA Code 314-40-31-30-01

OSSA TASKS
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

SETI Investigations at Jodrell Bank, England: September Through November 1983
G. S. Downs and S. Gulkis
NASA Code 199-50-62-09-05

Author Index, 1983


The research described in this publication was carried out by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, service, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not constitute or imply its endorsement by the United States Government or the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.


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