Abstract: Disclosed is a catheter guide for female self-catheterization to assist in guiding a catheter into the user's urethra. The catheter guide includes a hand-held guide with a vaginal insert portion joined to a handle at a fixed or an adjustable angle. There is an enclosed or open canal in the vaginal insert portion which can be aligned with the urethra, when the insert portion is in the vagina, and through which a catheter can be guided into the urinary tract.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed to enable a fixed or a mobile ground based slave stations (VSAT: Very Small Aperture Terminal) in a communication network to receive TDM transmissions from and transmit TDMA burst transmissions to one or more ground-based gateway stations in a networking system that employs one or more geosynchronous satellites. Each gateway station transmits on one or more forward TDM channels to the slave stations; however, one primary gateway acts as the master station at any given time which transmits the network control messages to the slave stations (VSATs) that control their TDMA transmission behavior on the network.