The Telecommunications and Data Acquisition Progress Report 42-96

October-December 1988

E. C. Posner
Editor


February 15, 1989

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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
COMMUNICATIONS, SPACECRAFT-GROUND

Design and Test of a 2.25-MW Transformer Rectifier Assembly
R. Cormier and J. Daeges
NASA Code 310-20-64-22-00

On Sampling Band-Pass Signals
R. Sadr and M. Shahshahani
NASA Code 310-30-70-84-02

The Use of Interleaving for Reducing Radio Loss in Convolutionally Coded Systems
D. Divsalar, M. K. Simon, and J. H. Yuen
NASA Code 310-30-71-83-04

A New VLSI Architecture for a Single-Chip-Type Reed-Solomon Decoder
I. S. Hsu and T. K. Truong
NASA Code 310-30-71-87-02

A Simplified Procedure for Decoding the (23,12) and (24,12) Golay Codes
T. K. Truong, J. K. Holmes, I. S. Reed, and X. Yin
NASA Code 310-30-70-87-02

STATION CONTROL AND SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY

Test Aspects of the JPL Viterbi Decoder
M. A. Breuer
NASA Code 310-30-72-88-01

On Testing VLSI Chips for the Big Viterbi Decoder
I. S. Hsu
NASA Code 310-30-72-88-01

Wiring Viterbi Decoders (Splitting deBruijn Graphs)
O. Collins, F. Pollara, S. Dolinar, and J. Statman
NASA Code 310-30-72-88-01

DSN Systems Implementation
CAPABILITIES FOR EXISTING PROJECTS

Block Diagrams of the Radar Interface and Control Unit
J. W. Collier
NASA Code 314-40-41-91-92

CAPABILITIES FOR NEW PROJECTS

RF Performance Measurement of the DSS-14 70-Meter Antenna at C-Band/L-Band
M. S. Gatti, A. J. Freiley, and D. Girdner
NASA Code 314-30-64-70-03

Microwave Time Delays for the Dual L-C-Band Feed System
J. Chen
NASA Code 314-30-64-70-03

Systems Analysis for DSN Microwave Antenna Holography
D. J. Rochblatt
NASA Code 314-30-50-70-01

DSN Operations
TDA PROGRAM MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS

Ka-Band Study-1988
J. W. Layland, R. L. Horttor, R. C. Clauss, J. H. Wilcher, R. J. Wallace, and D. J. Mudgway
NASA Code 314-40-31-30-03

Flight-Ground Advanced Engineering

A Low-Loss Linear Analog Phase Modulator for 8415 MHz Transponder Application
N. Mysoor
NASA Code 315-91-10-12-02

OSSA TASKS
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Radio Frequency Interference Survey Over the 1.0-10.4 GHz Frequency Range at the Goldstone-Venus Development Station
S. Gulkis, E. T. Olsen, M. J. Klein, and E. B. Jackson
NASA Code 314-30-69-08-32

Errata

Errata

Author Index, 1988


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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