SATELLITE COMMUNICATION QUIZ

The first satellite to receive and transmit simultaneously

Intelsat I

Syncorn I

Telstar I

Agila I

TRUE ANSWER : ?
YOUR ANSWER : ?

What circuit is responsible in activating and deactivating adjacent antenna elements in a mobile satellite array?

Radial combiner

Radial multiplexer

Radial divider

Divider/combiner

TRUE ANSWER : ?
YOUR ANSWER : ?

The first Philippine Agila I will have how many transponders.

36

12

24

48

TRUE ANSWER : ?
YOUR ANSWER : ?

Is a loss of power of a satellite downlink signal due to earth’s atmosphere.

Atmospheric loss

RFI

Radiation loss

Path loss

TRUE ANSWER : ?
YOUR ANSWER : ?

A satellite cross-link means

Earth-to-satellite link

Satellite-to-satellite link

Satellite-to-earth link

None of these

TRUE ANSWER : ?
YOUR ANSWER : ?

What is a device that detects both vertically and horizontally polarized signals simultaneously?

Orthomode transducer

Isomode detector

Crystal detector

Optoisolator

TRUE ANSWER : ?
YOUR ANSWER : ?

Is the geographical representation of a satellite antenna radiation pattern

Footprint

Earth

Spot

Region

TRUE ANSWER : ?
YOUR ANSWER : ?

The owner of AsiaSat 2 is

Singapore Satellite Commision

Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company (ASTC)

China Great Wall Industry Corporation

Japan Satellite System (JSAT)

TRUE ANSWER : ?
YOUR ANSWER : ?

The radiation patterns of earth coverage antennas have a beamwidth of approximately

35˚

5˚

21˚

17˚

TRUE ANSWER : ?
YOUR ANSWER : ?

The frequency of Ku band for satellite communications.

12/14 GHz

14/11 GHz

4/8 GHz

6/4 GHz

TRUE ANSWER : ?
YOUR ANSWER : ?

↑