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To: Lynn who wrote (29774)	12/1/1999 2:17:00 AM
From: Eric	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77400

Lynn, Your Satellite dish operates at KU band frequencies. The wavelength is approximately 8 centimeters long. For the dish to operate efficiently it would need to be approximately 10 wavelengths wide at the frequency of operation. At FM frequencies it would have to be approximately 30 meters across and about 100 times that at AM broadcast frequencies. That's pretty much why we don't see dishes below an operating frequency of 500 MHZ. The size becomes too big to get the job done. So in other words it won't work at all on the lower frequencies where the wavelengths are much longer. Hope this helps. I have a 10 foot diameter dish outside my house which lets me watch CNBC off of the "C" band G5 Satellite. regards, Eric