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Automated antenna pattern synthesis
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File import/export and output capabilities
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| Single beam, multi-beam, and shaped beam designs |
Export STK antenna gain files in ASCII format |
| Synthesize shaped patterns from one or more coverage polygons in minutes |
Import CPLAN work files |
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Automatic creation of component beam and synthesis station grids from coverage polygons
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Export vector graphics in Windows enhanced metafile (EMF) format |
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Graphical editing tools to add, delete, move, or change parameters of beamlets and stations
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Import scalar and vector antenna patterns defined in (u,v), (q,
f), az/el, and el/az coordinate grids
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Create and edit tables of beamlet positions and polygon vertices
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Import and export SATSOFT (CPLAN) and GRASP pattern files |
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Contour Plotting
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Export synthesis station grids in SATSOFT or TICRA's POS4 formats
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| Directivity, EIRP, G/T, C/I, etc. |
Import and export antenna contours in SATSOFT and ITU Graphics Exchange (GXT) format
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| Co-pol/cross-pol ratios for vector antenna patterns |
Export reflector geometry in TICRA's GRASP7 format |
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Slant-range path-loss compensation enables computation of flux density and carrier to thermal noise
contours
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Digitize existing antenna contours with any Windows compatible tablet
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Create plots at a precise scale for overlaying or as an aid in digitizing contours and polygons
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Windows printer support and clipboard support |
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Whittaker/Shannon interpolation/reconstruction of antenna patterns reduces modeling time and disk
space by a factor of ten or more
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Antenna models
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| Specify contour levels, line styles, colors, font, etc. |
Gaussian Beam model provided with SATSOFT for modeling circular and elliptical beams
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| Intelligent auto-ranging and zoom-in/zoom-out functions |
Analytical model of an offset reflector (optional) |
| Elevation contours |
Analytic model of a rectangular array fed by a Butler or Nolan Matrix with cosr element
pattern (optional)
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Performance tables
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Constant flux multi-beam antenna designs (optional) |
| Antenna performance at city and station locations |
Vector reflector model using the physical optics method (optional)
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Directivity, gain, EIRP, G/T, flux density, etc. tabulated in spreadsheet format
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Dual-mode optimizer for multi-beam antenna designs (optional)
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Copy and paste tables into Excel, print, and export to file
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Miscellaneous / user interface
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Coordinate systems, maps and objects
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Standard Windows user interface guidelines |
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(u,v), (q, f), az/el,
el/az, azimuth equidistant, orthographic, azimuth equal-area, and equirectangular coordinate systems
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Click and drag the antenna pattern to change boresight interactively
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City database (MS Access format) of over 1600 of the largest cities in the world connected via
standard Windows ODBC drivers
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Context sensitive help for dialog boxes, toolbar buttons and menus
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Plot pointing box, city name and/or designator at each city location
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Drag and drop work files, pattern files, coverage polygon, contour, and GXT files from Windows Explorer
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Elliptical and rectangular pointing boxes computed from spacecraft roll, pitch, and yaw errors
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Customizable toolbars< |
| Specify boresight in (az, el), (lon, lat),or 3 Euler angles |
Complete suite of editing tools |
| Plot a sin space unit circle in any coordinate system |
Create and edit polygons with the mouse or any Windows compatible digitizing tablet
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| Expand polygons by the satellite pointing error (SATSOFT/PRO) |
Automated creation of beamlet and synthesis station grids |
| World map, meridians and parallels |
Hierarchical tree-view of satellites, antennas and polygons
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