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2. Satellite dish - Wikipedia

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   A satellite dish is a dish-shaped type of parabolic antenna designed to receive or transmit information by radio waves to or from a communication satellite. The term most commonly means a dish which receives direct-broadcast satellite television from a direct broadcast satellite in geostationary orbit.

3. OTC Satellite Earth Station Carnarvon - Wikipedia

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   OTC Satellite Earth Station Carnarvon. The 12.8m-wide Casshorn antenna, commissioned in October 1966, has interacting parabolic and hyperbolic reflectors in a characteristic "sugar scoop" form. It claims to be the only remaining example in the world. The larger 29.8m parabolic dish antenna was commissioned in late 1969.

4. Squarial - Wikipedia

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   A photo of all three BSB dishes available, the squarial, a Sky dish for comparison, the round BSB dish, and the square BSB dish. Unlike a normal satellite dish, which uses a parabolic reflector to focus the radio waves on a single feed horn antenna, the Squarial was a phased array antenna, a common design in which multiple small antennas work together to receive the waves. [1]

5. Roaring Creek Station - Wikipedia

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   Roaring Creek Earth Station is a satellite ground station operated by AT&T and located approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Catawissa, Pennsylvania at 311 Earth Station Rd, Catawissa, PA 17820. [1] The facility includes three 150-foot (46 m) dishes that handle much of the communications between the United States and Europe and the Middle East.

6. Satellite television - Wikipedia

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   Satellite television. 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 ...

7. EchoStar XI - Wikipedia

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   EchoStar XI. EchoStar XI, also known as EchoStar 11, is an American geostationary communications satellite which is operated by EchoStar on behalf of Dish Network. It is positioned in Geostationary orbit at a longitude of 110° West, from where it is used to provide direct broadcasting services to the United States. [1]