Satellite Communications Payload and System

Acknowledgments

I would like to express my deepest thanks to my husband, Walter Braun, who taught me communications theory on the job at LinCom Corp. in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s and who has lovingly supported me and encouraged me in the writing of this book. Walter has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with specialty in communications theory. I would also like to especially thank my Ph.D. advisor, Dr. Ezio Biglieri, for being so helpful and kind in the late 1980s when I was his graduate student and, a few years ago now, for his wonderful suggestion to write a book. I will always be grateful to all the wonderful engineers I have worked with over the years, especially Richard Hoffmeister and Dr. Charles Hendrix, who were instrumental in my career development. Almost all of the engineers I have worked with have been passionate about their work and willing to help others learn, and they have made mine such an interesting career. Of all the companies I have worked at, two stand out for having provided me limitless opportunities to do good work: Space Systems/Loral and William Lindsey's LinCom Corp. of 30 years ago. My career has spanned the time since the American equal-opportunity laws were being implemented at federal contractors, and I have gone from being an oddity in the engineering workplace to feeling at home among many women colleagues, in California, anyway. I wish to thank the colleagues who reviewed the book and provided corrections, suggestions, and explanations: ...