The function, design, and ground station requirements of the AMSAT-OSCAR non-commercial space satellite system are described, and various experiments designed for direct student participation in space communications are provided in this text primarily written for the science educator. Six chapters include: (1) an introduction to general satellite…

This progress report describes the first year of a 4-year project to design and develop an educational telecommunications system for Alaska. Called "Educational Telecommunications for Alaska" (ETA), the project centers around a statewide computer network, linking every school district and regional resource center to each other and to the…

The Communications Act of 1934 is no longer adequate as a statement of United States national policy. The events of the last ten years in the domestic marketplace have shown that a national policy favoring competition in the provision of telecommunications services can now bring significantly greater benefits to the consumer than a national policy…

This monograph traces the growth of Mexico's broadcasting services against the background of that country's geographical, cultural, demographic, economic, and political structures. Specific areas dealt with within the six chapters of the monograph are: (1) the national environment for broadcasting; (2) the advent and development of broadcasting in…

This study elaborates on 56 findings and 17 recommendations made in an earlier report about telecommunications by a commission originated by the German Federal Minister for Research and Technology. The commission investigated (1) the needs and demand for telecommunications; (2) technical possibilities, required volume of investment and costs of…

This journal issue focuses on the frequency spectrum used in radio communication and on the World Administrative Radio Conference, sponsored by the International Telecommunication Union, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in the fall of 1979. Articles describe the World Administrative Radio Conference as the most important radio communication conference…

This document presents complete descriptions of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW)-funded education experiments with the Applications Technology Satellite (ATS) program. Special note is made of the ATS-F program which is considered as the most complex, versatile, and powerful communications spacecraft ever developed. This spacecraft will serve…

Although the United Nations, through its Working Group on Direct Broadcast Satellites, and the United States, through its Communications Satellite Act of 1962, have directed attention to satellite communication systems, a gulf exists between the available technology and the educational planners concerned with the potential use of such systems.…

Organizational alternatives for a Pacific educational computer-communications network are studied through the examples provided by other networks. A survey of networks is provided with a discussion of the history and development of networks and the distinctions in network technology and applications. Nine specific networks are described. Libraries…

There are fewer American Indians in higher education than most other minority groups. Among the few who are enrolled, there is a large percentage of dropouts. It has been extremely difficult to recruit, select, and keep Indian students, even at the graduate level. Several recommendations for obtaining more active Indian participation in higher…

The scope of the research reported here is summarized as follows: (1) consider items of information that could conceivably be transmitted electrically or electronically, (2) concentrate on domestic U.S. rather than international traffic, (3) concentrate on point-to-point service, (4) consider data collection and broadcasting services only as they…

Proceedings of the closed-circuit Teleconference on Pollution Control conducted by the National Association of Manufacturers on May 26, 1971 are supplied in this compendium. Edited transcripts are provided for the national programs and local panel sessions. Seeking to bring business and government together for cooperative problem solving, the…

This basic brochure on educational television (ETV) explains what ETV is, how station licenses are granted, and which organizations have information about ETV. Briefly covered are: history; figures on growth and development; characteristics of ETV stations; short descriptions of instructional television fixed service, microwave translators, and…

Electrical communication progressed rapidly after Samuel Morse demonstrated the telegraph in 1838. Western Union completed the first transcontinental telegraph line in 1861. Five years later the first transoceanic cable was laid. In 1875 A.G. Bell transmitted the first complete sentence heard over wire, and the first Bell telephone company was…

The general intent of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with regard to cable television (CATV) is to allow it enough re-broadcasting and importation of signals so that it can get started without giving CATV so much that it injures existing broadcast television or has no incentive to push into non-broadcast, broadband services which are…