Satellite TV
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Satellite TV
This form of television is delivered by way of orbiting communications satellites located
approximately 37,000 km above the earth's surface. The first satellite TV signal was
transmitted from Europe to the Telstar satellite, hovering over North America in 1962. The first domestic North American satellite to carry television was Canada's Anik 1, which was launched in 1973.
Satellite TV (like other communications relayed by satellite) starts with a transmitting satellite antenna located at an uplink facility. Uplink satellite dishes are directed toward the satellite that its signals will be
sent to and measures as much as 9 to 12 meters (30 to 40 feet) in diameter.
The larger the satellite dish, the more accurate positioning and improved signal reception
it offers. The satellite TV signals is transmitted to devices located on-board the satellite, called transponders, which
in turn retransmit the satellite signal back towards the Earth at a
altered frequency.
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Because the satellite signal weakens after traveling through space, it is collected by a parabolic receiving dish, which
then reflects the weak signal to the dish's focal point (eye) and is received,
then down-converted to a lower frequency band and amplified by a device called a low-noise block down converter, or LNB.
Different forms of satellite antenna, which does not use a directed parabolic dish and can be used on a mobile platform such as a vehicle
(car satellite system), was recently announced by the University of Waterloo.
The satellite TV signal, now being amplified, travels to a satellite TV receiver box through
a coaxial cable (RG-6 or RG-10), instead of the standard "RG-59" and is converted by a local oscillator to the L-band range of frequencies. Special on-board electronics in the receiver box help tune the signal and then converts it to a frequency that a standard television can use.
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TODAY'S NEWS:
Dish Network Corp., which lost 25,000 satellite-TV subscribers last quarter, had its stock rating cut by Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. on concern that defections will continue and the company will lose AT&T Inc. as a distributor. Subscriber losses have ...
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Australia is seeking to block a radical anti-Israel satellite TV channel linked to the militant Hizbullah group and broadcast from neighboring Indonesia, the government's broadcast watchdog said on Thursday. The al-Manar channel, owned by the Lebanon ...
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Most of you know that satellite TV business
in the United States are mainly dominated by two companies, Dish Network and DirecTV. If you would like to have a satellite TV in your home, your choices are mostly limited to the free satellite TV packages that
are offered by either one of these two companies. A piece of History: Hughes's DirecTV
(the first high-powered DBS system) went online in 1994 and was the first North American DBS service. In 1996, Echostar's Dish Network went online in the United States and has gone on to similar success.
If you are looking for more information on satellite TV, be sure to find
many websites online giving the necessary details in this regard.
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