The Telecommunications and Data Acquisition Progress Report 42-92

October-December 1987

E. C. Posner
Editor

February 15, 1988

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National Aeronautics and
Space Administration

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California


Contents

Preface

OSO TASKS
DSN Advanced Systems
TRACKING AND GROUND-BASED NAVIGATION

Source and Event Selection for Radio-Planetary Frame-Tie Measurements Using the Phobos Landers
R. Linfield and J. Ulvestad
NASA Code 310-10-60-50-00

The JPL Trapped Mercury Ion Frequency Standard
J. D. Prestage, G. J. Dick, and L. Maleki
NASA Code 310-10-62-15-00

COMMUNICATIONS, SPACECRAFT-GROUND

Using Ridge Regression in Systematic Pointing Error Corrections
C. N. Guiar
NASA Code 310-20-65-63-00

An Optimal Structure for a 34-Meter Millimeter-Wave Center-Fed BWG Antenna: The "Cross-Box" Concept
K. L. Chuang
NASA Code 310-20-65-86-04

A 2.3-GHz Maser at Usuda, Japan, for TDRSS-Orbiting VLBI Experiment
R. B. Quinn
NASA Code 310-20-66-09-00

A Lower Bound for the Decoder Error Probability of the Linear MDS Code
K.-M. Cheung
NASA Code 310-30-71-83-02

A Labeling Procedure for Linear Finite-State Codes
K.-M Cheung
NASA Code 310-30-71-83-02

Further Results on Finite-State Codes
F. Pollara, K.-M. Cheung, and R. J. McEliece
NASA Code 310-30-71-83-04

A Comparison of VLSI Architectures for Time and Transform Domain Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes
I. S. Hsu, T. K. Truong, L. J. Deutsch, E. H. Satorius, and I. S. Reed
NASA Code 310-30-71-87-02

STATION CONTROL AND SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY

Spacecraft Telecommunications System Mass Estimates
J. H. Yuen and L. L. Sakamoto
NASA Code 310-30-71-83-04

DSN Systems Implementation
CAPABILITIES FOR NEW PROJECTS

Phase Calibration Generator
E. H. Sigman
NASA Code 314-40-51-32-09

A Simplified, General-Purpose Deep-Space Ranging Correlator Design
R. C. Tausworthe and J. R. Smith
NASA Code 314-40-32-10-11

Frame Synchronization Performance and Analysis
C. S. R. Aguilera, L. Swanson, and G. H. Pitt III
NASA Code 314-30-57-01-30

A Noise-Adding Radiometer for the Parkes Antenna
T. J. Brunzie
NASA Code 314-30-66-11-15

X-Band System Performance of the Very Large Array
J. S. Ulvestad, G. M. Resch, and W. D. Brundage
NASA Code 314-40-66-09-12

NETWORK UPGRADE AND SUSTAINING

DSS 14 64-Meter Antenna S- and X-Band Efficiency and System Noise Temperature Calibrations, September 1987
S. D. Slobin
NASA Code 314-40-56-44-14

New Mode Switching Algorithm for the JPL 70-Meter Antenna Servo Controller
J. A. Nickerson
NASA Code 314-30-56-44-19

Optical Links in the Angle-Data Assembly of the 70-Meter Antennas
M. D. Nelson, J. R. Schroeder, and E. F. Tubbs
NASA Code 314-30-41-70-21

Seventy-Meter Antenna Performance Predictions: GTD Analysis Compared With Traditional Ray-Tracing Methods
J. M. Schredder
NASA Code 314-40-41-82-09

The Design and Implementation of the Technical Facilities Controller (TFC) for the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
D. A. Killian, F. J. Menninger, T. Gorman, and P. Glenn
NASA Code 314-40-44-14-23

OSSA TASKS
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

SETI Data Controllers
R. M. Gosline
NASA Code 199-50-62-10-92

Simulated Performance of an Order Statistic Threshold Strategy for Detection of Narrowband Signals
E. Satorius, R. Brady, W. Deich, S. Gulkis, and E. Olsen
NASA Code 199-50-67-09-05

Author Index, 1987


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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