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Communications For Your Astronomy Event . Articles | ... The FCC agreed and in 1996 created the Family Radio Service (FRS) as one of the Citizens Band Radio Services. ... You are provided authority to operate a FRS unit in places where the FCC regulates radio communications as long as you use only an unmodified FCC certified FRS unit. ... Frequencies Used 462.5625-467.7125 MHz . FRS Channel Plan . ... 0.5 Watts . ... www.astronomy.net . ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Next: Network logins Up: Major services in a Previous: Graphical user interface . Networking is the act of connecting two or more computers so that they can communicate with each other. ... Most basic services--filesystems, printing, backups, etc--can be done over the network. ... However, this book merely glances at networking; see the Linux Network Administrators' Guide for more information, including a basic description of how networks operate. ... Sun May 4 14:08:43 EEST 1997 ...

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... GUI­fying and Documenting your Shell Script Peter. ... We describe a simple method to annotate shell scripts and have a preprocessor extract a set of variables, present them to the user in a GUI (using Tcl/Tk) with context sensitive help, and run the script. ... Tcl/Tk: TkRun The GUI that is created will provide a simple interface to a program that is spawned by the GUI. ... Sample Script: testscript Here is an example header from a C­shell script with which Figure 1 was made. ...

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Below is a list of additional documentation pages that apply to the Apache web server development project. ... Description of Apache's Application Programming Interface. ... Reading Client Input in Apache 1.2 . Describes differences between Apache 1.1 and 1.2 in how modules read information from the client. ... Notes about Apache's compatibility with the NCSA server. ... Performance Notes (BSD 4.4) . Some notes about ways to improve/optimize Apache performance on BSD 4.4 systems. ...

Optical Communication Experiment using Very Small Optical transmitter with SLR station National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Space Communications System Laboratory Hiroo Kunimori and VSOTA TEAM Sep 24, 2012 WPLTN Technical Workshop@St.Petersburg, Russia Table of Contents Backgound:HODOYOSHI Project JapaneseHODOYOHI= Reasonable Reliability Engineering to develop series of 50kg Satellite. ... How to share wavelength communication beam and ranging beams. ...

Next: Navigation Pre-Observation Products . ... SRT (Space Radio Telescope) Schedule (SRS) File . ... What: GOCG generates the Space Radio Telescope (SRT) schedule file, or SRS file, from current GSTS file. The SRS file has more precise time stamps than long-term schedules, and also designates which GTS will be used when. ... The SRS file also serves as the antenna pointing schedule file, as it describes the planned orientation of the spacecraft (and solar panels) as a function of time. ...

... NASA Integrated Services Network (NISN) . ... Russian Space Science Internet (RSSI) . ... In the Fall of 1993, NASA Science lnternet (NSI) and the Russian Space Science lnternet (RSSI) began a cooperative effort to provide lnternet communications to selected Russian institutions in order to promote sponsored scientific cooperation between the two countries. ... This change, limiting full lnternet access via NISN for NASA selected Russian institutions, will take place no later than July 1998. ...

This groups includes about 200 communication satellites ("comsats") scattered in synchronous orbits above the Earth's equator. ... 6 Earth radii (42,000 km or 26,000 miles), these satellite make one orbit per day, and therefore as the Earth turns, they always stay above the same ground station. ... Still another application is the 24-satellite network of the "Global Positioning System" (GPS), in circular orbits at distances of about 4.1 Earth radii (26,000 km or 16,000 miles). ...

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Microsymposium 34, MS047, 2001 SOME PROBLEMS OF THE EVOLUTION OF ASTEROIDS ­ RUBBLE PILE. ... Evidently, we can distinguish two processes: distant interactions, where there is no direct contact between separate fragments, and close contact interactions, where the fragments collide with one another. ... Such a rubble pile with a dust atmosphere differs from a cometary nucleus only in the absence of a volatile gas component, which is usually considered the cause of the appearance of cometary dust. ...

... Documentation for the Python objects defined by the project is divided into separate pages for each package, module, and class. The API documentation also includes two pages containing information about the project as a whole: a trees page, and an index page. ... A description of the package. ... A summary of the classes defined by the package. ... The module contents frame contains a list of every submodule, class, type, exception, function, and variable defined by a module or package. ...

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... Questions: . ... Find some information on the design and potential of the Advanced Gas Turbine. ... Find some information on the frequency and amount of oil spills which occur in the world's oceans in a given year. ... We don't care how many you get correct. However, of the questions there, explain which one had an answer that most surprised you and how should that answer affect our future policies? ... Find some information about the history of Dam failures in the US and Canada since 1900. ...

... Mathematical methods in physics . ... NUCLEAR PHYSICS . ... CONDENSED MATTER: STRUCTURAL, MECHANICAL, AND THERMAL PROPERTIES . ... Mechanical and acoustical properties of condensed matter . ... Thermal properties of condensed matter . ... CONDENSED MATTER: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES . ... Electronic transport in condensed matter . ... Optical properties, condensed-matter spectroscopy and other interactions of radiation and particles with condensed matter . ...

... The department was founded in late sixties by Prof. D.Ya.Martynov, who for many years was also the director of Sternberg Astronomical Institute. At present time, the head of the department is Prof. A.M.Cherepashchuk, a pupil of D.Ya.Martynov and his successor as the director of SAI. Since Prof. Martynov, the scientific activity of the department was primarily related to binary stars. ... The department consists of 15 members most of which have Ph.D. in Astrophysics. ...

... Future seminars . P a s t seminars . ... The heliospheric interface: theory and observations" . ... Sun is moving through warm ( ~ 6500 K) and partly ionized local interstellar cloud (LIC) with velocity ~ 26 km/s. Charged component of interstellar gas interacts with the solar wind (SW) forming the heliospheric interface, the SW/LIC interaction region. Both solar wind and interstellar gas have multi-component nature that creates a complex behavior of the interaction region. ...