Talk:Satellite dish

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Is any chance to expand the antenna to receive simple TV local programming and at the same time receive satellite programming?

This is not possible unless the local programming is carried on satellite. The terrestrial TV frequencies (VHF and UHF) are totally different to those on satellite (C and Ku band), as are the encoding methods for terrestrial digital and satellite digital. Occasionally, local programming may be transmitted on satellite. In the United Kingdom most if not all regional versions of ITV and BBC television are transmitted in this manner.

Note that in Ireland some people are using very large parabolic dishes (>2m in diameter) to receive terrestrial UHF TV transmissions from Wales. This is quite an extreme measure, when no "off the shelf" aerials are up to the job. The technical details are somewhat different to satellite reception, in that there is a UHF dipole at the focus of the dish rather than an LNB. Also the dish is aimed at a point on the earth's surface :-) Rugxulo 21:56, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scupture

Any pics of the "creative dish is a 5-7 meter art sculpture at the Bell Telco CO in Toronto near King street and Strachan at Stanley Park" would be appreiciated 68.236.245.209 00:11, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge Big ugly dish

Having a separate article for C band satellite dishes seems redundant. A more serious issue is that the big ugly dish article seems to violate NPOV. - Neparis (talk) 01:40, 5 April 2008 (UTC)