Abstract: An antenna comprising a reflector have a center-fed shaped axially displaced elliptical (ADE) configuration with either an elliptical aperture or a truncated elliptical aperture is described.

Abstract: An antenna comprising a reflector have a center-fed shaped axially displaced elliptical (ADE) configuration with either an elliptical aperture or a truncated elliptical aperture is described.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present apparatus and system are directed to a compact satellite communications on the move (SOTM) antenna system that maintains a communications link with a hybrid combination of mechanical and electronic beam steering. This hybrid system ensures that the antenna beamwidth in the plane of the geosynchronous satellites remains within internationally agreed to limits, independent of the location of the satellite with respect to the ground terminal. Systems constructed according to the principles presently disclosed also provide reduced antenna sidelobes in the satellite plane and minimize the electronic scan loss while simultaneously achieving controllable beamwidth, full field of view coverage, and low antenna height.

Abstract: A multiplexer system providing a transmission frame field containing information derived from the cumulative total of stuff bits used over a plurality of frames. The stuff bits which also have assigned positions in the transmission frame are generally used in asynchronous systems to compensate for the input data rate of a group not being a fixed submultiple of the transmission rate. The demultiplexer system uses the information derived from the cumulative total to improve the bit count integrity performance of data channeled out to a user device. Also, during transmission fade conditions, the demultiplexer uses information derived from the frequency of past stuff operations to maintain group bit count close to its expected value.