Satcom System Design Boot Camp - RF Subsystems
Lessons
The end-to-end system model discussion continues by addressing the individual elements of the Ground Station transmitter. The RF lineup analysis provides the behavioral framework. The Spectrasys tool illustrates the basic RF lineup analysis, accurate RF behavioral model creation from data, and the effects of nonlinearity, phase noise, mismatch, etc. Next, designing the ground station and satellite RF subsystems shows the interactions of the phased array antenna's mixers, power amplifiers, and load pull effects. This video tutorial uses a bent pipe system architecture for a transmission example.