This folder contains a number of U.P.M.A.C.S. sample stations.
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Demo Station:
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This is a simulated earth station. It needs no equipment, and demonstrates some of the user interface possibilities of U.P.M.A.C.S.. It also shows some of the automation tasks U.P.M.A.C.S. can do by simulating antenna movement, alarms, HPA power levelling, and some other things. All the simulation is done using the built-in BASIC-like control language, SCL.

Demo Station 2:
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This is another simulated earth station. It has a different user interface than the Demo Station, and you can play around with the power on the transmit path. The station calculates the output power of the on-line SSPA from the output powers of the modems and the attenuations of the U/C and SSPA. If you set the output power too low or the attenuations too high, you will trigger a low RF power alarm. Again, the power calculations are done using the SCL control language.

Demo Station 3:
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This station file shows what a large earth station might look like. This station is not functional like the other two demo stations, it merely serves to show how a large system can be split up into sub systems. The station has one alarm that gets triggered automatically every 1 1/2 minutes.  

Sample Station:
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This is a fully functional database for a small earth station. It has equipment detail screens with drop shadows, and it contains a lot of sample controls for the different tasks.

Network Map:
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This is a station that shows an example of a network overview screen. The local station is Montreal. You can run the database on up to eight other computers, and if you connect to them under the names of the cities shown, you get a summary alarm and a link to the main screen of every city.

Sample SCL Programs:
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This database contains sample SCL programs for four different tasks:

  1) Showing a dialog that lets the user enter a frequency
  2) Showing a dialog that lets the user select a modulation type
  3) Implementing a countdown
  4) Maintaining a list of satellites with their positions

Image Library for Samples:
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The image library to be used with the sample stations.