Patent ID: 7076201

Claim:
A very small aperture terminal (VSAT) transceiver used in a VSAT terminal that communicates with a transponder of a satellite comprising: a ceramic substrate board; a transmitter circuit and a receiver circuit operative at ka-band and including a local oscillator circuit and mixer for mixing local oscillator signals, formed on the ceramic substrate board, and each having microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC) chips; and a microcontroller operatively connected to said MMIC chips and operative for controlling transceiver gain and output power based upon one or both of the received signal strength and the signal-to-noise information from an indoor unit of the VSAT terminal; a soft circuit board as a controller board and mounting the microcontroller, and including DC components; contact connectors connecting circuits on the ceramic substrate board and circuits on the soft circuit board as the controller board; and a housing enclosing the ceramic substrate board and soft circuit board.