The Telecommunications and Data Acquisition Progress Report 42-86

April-June 1986

E. C. Posner
Editor


August 15, 1986

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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

DSS 13 Frequency Stability Tests Performed During May 1985 Through March 1986
T. Y. Otoshi and M. M. Franco
NASA Code 310-10-62-25-00

COMMUNICATIONS, SPACECRAFT-GROUND

New Short-Time Alignment Technique for 70-Meter Antenna Surface Panels
M. S. Katow
NASA Code 310-20-65-05-10

A Prototype DSN X/S-Band Feed: Model III Development
D. A. Bathker and H. F. Reilly
NASA Code 310-20-65-86-08

Stability lnvestigation of the Quadripod Structure for the NASA/JPL 70-Meter Antenna
C. T. Chian, J. J. Cucchissi, and R. Levy
NASA Code 310-20-65-86-04

Array Feed Synthesis for Correction of Reflector Distortion and Vernier Beamsteering
S. J. Blank and W. A. Imbriale
NASA Code 310-20-65-04-00

1- to 4-K Refrigeration Techniques for Cooling Masers on a Beam Waveguide Antenna
D. L. Johnson
NASA Code 310-20-66-53-00

Single Longitudinal Mode Operation of Semiconductor Laser Arrays With Etalon Control
H. Hemmati
NASA Code 310-20-67-84-04

A Recursive Solution for a Fading Memory Filter Derived From Kalman Filter Theory
J. I. Statman
NASA Code 310-30-70-84-02

An Estimator-Predictor Approach to PLL Loop Filter Design
J. I. Statman and W. J. Hurd
NASA Code 310-30-70-84-02

Choosing Channel Quantization Levels and Viterbi Decoding for Space Diversity Reception Over the Additive White Gaussian Noise Channel
S. Kalson
NASA Code 310-30-71-84-04

Phase Lock Acquisition for Sampled Data PLLs Using the Sweep Technique
S. Aguirre, D. H. Brown, and W. J. Hurd
NASA Code 310-30-70-84-02

A Method to Dramatically Improve Subcarrier Tracking
W. J. Hurd and S. Aguirre
NASA Code 310-30-70-84-02

STATION CONTROL AND SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY

A New Method for Frame Synchronization
M. Shahshahani and L. Swanson
NASA Code 310-30-71-84-04

Cramer-Rao Bounds for Signal-to-Noise Ratio and Combiner Weight Estimation
S. J. Dolinar
NASA Code 310-30-71-84-04

Antenna Arraying of Voyager Telemetry Signals by Symbol Stream Combining
W. J. Hurd, J. Rabkin, M. D. Russell, B. Siev, H. W. Cooper, T. O. Anderson, and P. U. Winter
NASA Code 310-30-70-84-06

A VLSI Architecture for Performing Finite Field Arithmetic with Reduced Table Look-Up
I. S. Hsu, T. K. Truong, and I. S. Reed
NASA Code 310-30-70-84-08

A New VLSI Complex Integer Multiplier Which Uses a Quadratic-Polynomial Residue System With Fermat Numbers
T. K. Truong, I. S. Hsu, J. J. Chang, H. C. Shyu, and I. S. Reed
NASA Code 310-30-70-84-08

Unattended Deep Space Station Tracking Station Development: Monitor and Control Technology
C. Foster
NASA Code 310-30-68-01-00

NETWORK DATA PROCESSING AND PRODUCTIVITY

A System for the Functional Testing and Simulation of Custom and Semicustom VLSI Chips
E. M. Olson and L. J. Deutsch
NASA Code 310-40-72-15-00

Prototyping and Implementing Flight Qualifiable Semicustom CMOS P-Well Bulk Integrated Circuits in the JPL Environment
E. Olson
NASA Code 310-40-72-15-60

Ulysses, a Functional Description and Simulation Software System
T. W. Griswold and D. F. Hendry
NASA Code 310-40-72-85-01

DSN Systems Implementation
CAPABILITIES FOR NEW PROJECTS

Improved Performance of a Digital Phase-Locked Loop Combined With a Frequency/Frequency-Rate Estimator
A. Mileant and M. Simon
NASA Code 310-40-56-09-02

VLA Feedhorn for Voyager Encounter of Neptune
F. Manshadi, D. A. Bathker, and H. W. Marlin
NASA Code 310-40-56-09-03

X-Band Preamplifier Filter
F. Manshadi
NASA Code 314-30-63-01-02

Physical Optics Analysis of a Four-Reflector Antenna: Part 2
A. G. Cha
NASA Code 314-30-56-04-01

Finite Wordlength Implementation of a Megachannel Digital Spectrum Analyzer
E. H. Satorius, M. J. Grimm, G. A. Zimmerman, and H. C. Wilck
NASA Code 314-30-69-01-21

NETWORK SUSTAINING

Deep Space Network Mark IVA Description
R. J. Wallace and R. W. Burt
NASA Code 314-40-41-81-13

DSN Operations
MISSION INTERFACE AND SUPPORT

HEO Multimission Navigation Concept
J. Ellis
NASA Code 314-40-22-42-01

ICE Navigation Support
L. Efron, R. Muellerschoen, and R. I. Premkumar
NASA Code 314-40-22-42-01

OSSA TASKS
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Objectives and First Results of the NASA SETI Sky Survey Field Tests at Goldstone
S. Gulkis, M. J. Klein, E. T. Olson, R. B. Crow, R. M. Gosline, G. S. Downs, M. P. Quirk, A. Lokshin, and J. Solomon
NASA Code 199-50-62-07-00

DSN Radar Astronomy

Fast Magnetic Tape Utilities for VAX/VMS Computers
N. E. Olson, R. F. Jurgens, and J. L. Robinett
NASA Code 196-41-73-02-55

Geodynamics
GEODYNAMIC SCIENCE

Demonstration of the Fiducial Concept Using Data From the March 1995 GPS Field Test
J. M. Davidson, C. L. Thornton, S. A. Stephens, S-C. Wu, S. M. Lichten, J. S. Border, O. J. Sovers, T. H. Dixon, and B. G. Williams
NASA Code 676-20-20-10-20

Referees


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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