Facts About Satellite TV Antenna

All you TV lovers must have noticed a parabolic dish perched on your rooftop. You must have wondered why it is placed on the roof tops of many buildings. Such dishes are known as Satellite dishes. Let's take a deeper look to know about this.

Satellite TV dishes are used to receive signals for viewing DISH Network channels. It is essentially a DISH shaped unit with a parabolic antenna, which has been designed to receive microwave signals from various communication satellites and then helps them to broadcast in different locations.

The most primary type of satellite TV DISH is VSAT. This DISH enables you to have two way communications and is primarily used by organizations to create private networks for themselves so that they can communicate with each others. The VSAT satellites used Ku band frequency. The antennas used by this satellite TV DISH vary between 74 cm to 120 cm in size.

Another type of Satellite Dish TV is the multi-satellite. This DISH antenna has been designed to get simultaneous receptions from the different satellites located at different points.

The most common type of satellite TV DISH is used for watching home television, which has a diameter of 43cm to 80 cm. They are fixed in single position. These types of DISH Network antennas offer good communication facility. However it should be noted that if the DISH antenna is too small it can interfere and hamper communication due to rain and snowfall.

When it comes to the choice of satellite TV DISH what must be considered is not the antenna but the satellite TV provider. In United States DISH Network is the leading pay TV service provider. It not only provides wide array of channels but has a reliable customer care service. You should check out for the best satellite TV deals and order the suitable programming package for your family.

When satellite TV first hit the market in early 1990's the home dishes were pretty expensive that took up huge chunks of your backyard. In those days only the rich and the famous could afford a satellite TV at their homes. Therefore only the TV enthusiasts had to go through the hassles of installing satellite TV DISH and the expense of putting up satellite TV DISH was pretty high.

Today you can see compact DISH Network antennas perched on rooftops all over the United States. As cable TV hasn't been spread in the rural areas, so you will mostly see satellite TV in every house there. Even satellite TV providers are luring in more customers everyday by providing best of the movies, round the clock news and best of the sporting events with a promise to provide best movie-quality picture and superior sound.

Conceptually satellite TV functions like a broadcast TV. It is a wireless system for delivering TV programming directly into the subscriber's house. Both satellite TV and broadcast television stations transmit programming through radio signal. Both of them use a powerful antenna to transmit radio waves to the surrounding areas.