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  2. Satellite dish - Wikipedia

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    The satellite dishes of the early 1980s were 10 to 16 feet (3.0 to 4.9 m) in diameter [4] and made of fiberglass with an embedded layer of wire mesh or aluminium foil, or solid aluminium or steel. [5] Satellite dishes made of wire mesh first came out in the early 1980s, and were at first 10 feet (3.0 m) in diameter.

  3. Television receive-only - Wikipedia

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    The dish had to be pointed directly at the satellite, with nothing blocking the signal. Weaker signals required larger dishes. [4] [5] [6] The dishes worked by receiving a low-power C-Band (3.7–4.2 GHz) frequency-modulated analog signal directly from the original distribution satellite – the same signal received by cable television headends.

  4. Satellite television in the United States - Wikipedia

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    U.S. residential satellite TV receiver dishes. Currently, there are two primary satellite television providers of subscription based service available to United States consumers: DirecTV and Dish Network, which have 21 and 10 million subscribers respectively. [1] [2]

  5. Satellite television - Wikipedia

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    A number of satellite dishes. Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location. [1] The signals are received via an outdoor parabolic antenna commonly referred to as a satellite dish and a low-noise block ...

  6. FTA receiver - Wikipedia

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    A Viewsat Xtreme FTA receiver. A free-to-air or FTA Receiver is a satellite television receiver designed to receive unencrypted broadcasts. Modern decoders are typically compliant with the MPEG-4/DVB-S2 standard and formerly the MPEG-2/DVB-S standard, while older FTA receivers relied on analog satellite transmissions which have declined rapidly in recent years.

  7. Monoblock LNB - Wikipedia

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    Two monoblock LNB can be connected to one receiving dish using Multi-satellite techniques. However, the expected results of such connections may vary or be sub-optimal. The results may yield low-level signals from some or all of the satellites or it may work well in certain geographically favorable locations.