A parabolic antenna is a simple enough device, a curved reflector designed to focus all the radiation from the direction it’s pointed into a waveguide or antenna at its feedpoint. They’re easy ...

Also called a "dish" or "mirror," parabolic antennas are used for satellite signals and planetary telescopes. The reflective mirror design can also emit energy such as in a flashlight or ...

A parabolic antenna brings radio waves from a particular direction in space (along the axis of the parabola) to a focus as in Figure 1. The radio waves from the direction along the axis arrive at the ...

Not too far away from where this is being written is one of Uncle Sam’s NATO outposts, a satellite earth station for their ...

parabolic reflector before it was bolted to a 65-foot-high (20-meter-high) alidade, a platform above the antenna's pedestal that will steer the reflector during operations. "One of the biggest ...

The full-motion, 21-meter parabolic dish antenna system serves as an Earth station for satellite mission support and also acts as a test bed for advanced radio frequency systems. The system is capable ...