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Satellite television or satellite TV is television delivered by way of orbiting communications satellites located 37,000 km above the earth's surface.

The initial satellite TV signal was relayed from Europe to the Telstar satellite over North America in 1962. The introductory 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 it is signals will be transmitted to, and are very large, as much as 9 to 12 meters (30 to 40 feet) in diameter. The more spectacular the satellite dish, the more precise positioning and bettered signal reception at the satellite. The satellite TV signals is transmitted to appliances located on-board the satellite called transponders, which retransmit the satellite signal back towards the Earth at a dissimilar frequency.

The satellite signal, rather weak after traveling through space, is accumulated by a parabolic receiving dish, which reflects the weak signal to the dish's focal point and is received, down-converted to a lower frequency band and amplified by a device called a low-noise block down converter, or LNB.

A new form of satellite antenna, which does not use a directed parabolic dish and may be employed on a mobile platform such as a vehicle, was not long ago declared by the University of Waterloo. On ordinarily known as car satellite system.

The satellite TV signal, now amplified, travels to a satellite TV receiver box through coaxial cable (RG-6 or RG-10; cannot be popular RG-59) and is converted by a local oscillator to the L-band range of frequencies (approximately). Special on-board electronics in the receiver box aid tune the signal and then convert it to a frequency that a frequent television may use.

As you known, satellite TV business in United States are primarily overshadowed by two companies, Dish Network and DirecTV. If you would like to have a satellite TV in your home, your selections are largely fixed to the free satellite TV packages that offered by either one Dish Network or DirecTV.

Here's a quick view on United States satellite TV industry: Hughes's DirecTV, the original high-powered DBS system, went online in 1994 and was the primary North American DBS service. In 1996, Echostar's Dish Network went online in the United States and has gone on to similar success.

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