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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. 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 ...

  4. Parabolic antenna - Wikipedia

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    The most common form is shaped like a dish and is popularly called a dish antenna or parabolic dish. The main advantage of a parabolic antenna is that it has high directivity . It functions similarly to a searchlight or flashlight reflector to direct radio waves in a narrow beam, or receive radio waves from one particular direction only.

  5. Satellite television in the United States - Wikipedia

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    90cm multiple-LNA toroidal satellite dish The majority of ethnic-language broadcasts in North America are carried on K u band free-to-air. The largest concentration of free-to-air programming is on Galaxy 19 at 97° W. Pittsburgh International Telecommunications and GlobeCast World TV offers a mix of free and pay-TV ethnic channels in the ...

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  9. 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.