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The parabolic shape of a dish reflects the signal to the dish’s focal point. Schematics of reflection principles used in parabolic antennas. Television stations, however, still prefer to transmit their signals on the C-band analog with large dishes due to the fact that C-band signals are less prone to rain fade than K u band signals. This great decrease of dish size also allowed satellite dishes to be installed on vehicles. This was the first widely used direct-broadcast satellite television system and allowed dishes as small as 20 inches to be used. On 4 March 1996, EchoStar introduced Digital Sky Highway ( Dish Network). The relatively strong K u band transmissions allowed the use of dishes as small as 90 cm for the first time. In the early 1990s, four large American cable companies founded PrimeStar, a direct broadcasting company using medium power satellites. This allowed small dishes (90 cm) to be used reliably for the first time. In December 1988, Luxembourg's Astra 1A satellite began transmitting analog television signals on the K u band for the European market. Larger dishes continued to be used, however. As the front-end technology improved and the noise figure of the LNBs fell, the size shrank to 8 feet (2.4 m) a few years later, and continued to get smaller reducing to 6 feet (1.8 m) feet by the late 1980s and 4 feet (1.2 m) by the early 1990s. Satellite dishes made of wire mesh first came out in the early 1980s, and were at first 10 feet (3.0 m) in diameter. The satellite dishes of the early 1980s were 10 to 16 feet (3.0 to 4.9 m) in diameter and made of fiberglass with an embedded layer of wire mesh or aluminium foil, or solid aluminium or steel. The dishes were nearly 20 feet (6.1 m) in diameter.

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The front cover of the 1979 Neiman-Marcus Christmas catalog featured the first home satellite TV stations on sale. The first satellite television dishes were built to receive signals on the C-band analog, and were very large. Taylor Howard of San Andreas, California, adapted an ex-military dish in 1976 and became the first person to receive satellite television signals using it. The term satellite dish was coined in 1978 during the beginning of the satellite television industry, and came to refer to dish antennas that send and/or receive signals from communications satellites. Parabolic antennas referred to as 'dish' antennas had been in use long before satellite television. The term most commonly means a dish which receives direct-broadcast satellite television from a direct broadcast satellite in geostationary orbit. A satellite dish is a dish-shaped type of parabolic antenna designed to receive or transmit information by radio waves to or from a communication satellite.