Table of Contents

Telemetry system definition; analogue frequency modulation; design of FM/FM systems; pulse code modulation; TM channel formats; PCM/FM (binary FSK); power/noise concepts of BPSK modulation; QPSK; bandwidth efficient modulation techniques; spread spectrum modulation techniques; link analysis; system figure of merit; synchronization; hybrid systems, PCM/FM + FM/FM, PCM/FM/FM; convolutional coding for forward error correction.

About the Author

Dr. Frank Carden is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Mexico State University, in Las Cruces, NM. He earned his PhD and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Russ Jedlica is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, MN, and past section manager of the Electromagnetics Systems at the Physical Science Laboratory on the campus of NMSU, Las Cruces NM. Dr. Robert Henry is Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Louisiana at Lafayette, at Lafayette, LA. He earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University and his M.Sc.