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2. Television receive-only - Wikipedia

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   [citation needed] As of 2009, there are 23 C-band satellites and 38 K u /K a band satellites. [17] There were over 150 channels for people who want to receive subscription channels on a C-band dish via Motorola's 4DTV equipment via two vendors Satellite Receivers Ltd (SRL) and Skyvision Archived January 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. The ...

3. Satellite television in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Owners of cable systems paid $10,000 to install 3-meter dishes to receive TV signals in C band. In 1976 Taylor Howard built an amateur system, which consisted of a converted military surplus radar dish and a satellite receiver designed and built by Howard, for home satellite reception.

4. C band (IEEE) - Wikipedia

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   Typical antenna sizes on C-band-capable systems range from 6 to 12 feet (1.8 to 3.5 meters) on consumer satellite dishes, although larger ones also can be used. For satellite communications, the microwave frequencies of the C band perform better under adverse weather conditions in comparison with the K u band (11.2–14.5 GHz ), microwave ...

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. Satellite dish - Wikipedia

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   The first satellite television dishes were built to receive signals on the C-band analog, and were very large. The front cover of the 1979 Neiman-Marcus Christmas catalog featured the first home satellite TV stations on sale. [2] The dishes were nearly 20 feet (6.1 m) in diameter. [3]

7. Dish Network - Wikipedia

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   It was retroactively named the "DISH 300" when legal and satellite problems forced delays of the forthcoming DISH 500 systems. It uses one LNB to obtain signals from the 119°W orbital location, [ 85 ] and was commonly used as a second dish to receive additional high-definition or international programming from either the 148°W or 61.5°W ...

8. 4DTV - Wikipedia

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   4DTV is a proprietary broadcasting standard and technology for digital cable broadcasting and C-band/Ku-band satellite dishes from Motorola, using General Instrument's DigiCipher II for encryption. It can tune in both analog VideoCipher II and digital DCII satellite channels.

9. Talk:Satellite dish - Wikipedia

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   C-Band dishes and BUDs are seperate entities, C-Band dish describes a type of antenna, BUD describes a complete television reception system and a sort of culture that we had going in the 80s. I'm working to improve the article, making it more informative and ridding it of "neutral point of view" errors.