MEMORANDUM

TEAM L2D2

Adebayo ADEGBOLA

Jeffrey CHU

Gregory LEE

Mustafa MUSSAYEV

Eric TUNG TEAM LEADER

Week 1(March.3 – March.7) – Spectrum Analyzer Demo and Starting Project 2

During this week we had:

• lecture on Monday on team meeting strategies

• spectrum analyzer demo on Wednesday and lab tutorial on Friday

Wednesday

This week was our demo week and on Monday we still had quite a bit of troubleshooting to complete. Our peak detector suddenly broke down and we rebuilt the same circuit many times but it never worked. Our solution was to try to build a different circuit. Although this plan worked, our output from the peak detector was not as accurate due to larger fluctuation. Even after our calibrations, the dBm is sometimes accurate and sometimes inaccurate. We decided to stick with this because we did not have enough time to make more adjustments. Overall, the demo was very successful and we were very happy with our results.

Friday

We started our new project, the Orbcomm project, during this lab session. Being quite different from the Spectrum Analyzer project, we realized it was something we would definitely have to learn more about and get used to. We spent almost one third of the lab session being taught the basics of the project such as how to use Putty and roughly how we are supposed to complete it. For this lab session, we were given the task of editing a file of C code to send an email to our group email that we created this session as well. While it sounds quite simple, it proved to be more difficult than we had originally thought. We did manage to send one or two emails but could not get an email to send consistently. By the end of the lab session, we had three emails sent to our group email.