Satellite TV system: TVRO

There are mainly two types of satellite TV system available in United States -- TVRO and DBS. TVRO, or in detail, Television Recieve Only is the first satellite system available for home satellite viewing system while DBS, Direct Broadcast Satellite is available later. These two satellite system work in different band (C-band and Ku-band) and their working system specifications are quite a different. We'll review TVRO here in this article, while you can get more information about DBS system here at: Satellite TV system: DBS.

TVRO: Television Receive Only

As you might knew it, TVRO systems in United States are often referred as Big Dish TV, C-Band Satellite TV and BUD (Big Ugly Dish).

Television Reveice Only, TVRO, was the first to be introduced to the home viewer. The TVRO satellite system requires a big dish -- with diameter ranged from 3 to 6 feet. TVRO systems worked in C-Band with frequencies of around 4 GHertz.

Ever wonder the reason of big dish? It's because of TVRO's wave length of these frequencies is longer than in Ku-Band which requires a much smaller dish of about 18 inches. Ku-Band, which is used by DBS, is at 12 to 14 G Hertz.

To get signals from various satellite, TVRO systems normally need a movable dish. Possibilities that exist with TVRO systems is that you can also receive free channels and independent feeds from for instance news companies.

You could for instance receive the unedited material that is broadcasted from a news crew somewhere in the coverage area of the satellite. They transmit their materials to their headquarters using a C-Band satellite. Many of these types of feeds are not scrambled and are available to everyone with the proper equipment.

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