{"id":2399,"date":"2020-07-23T11:01:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T11:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jkdishinfo.com\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2020-07-23T11:07:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T11:07:47","slug":"what-is-the-ku-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkdishinfo.com\/what-is-the-ku-band\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Ku-Band?"},"content":{"rendered":"\nWhat is the Ku-Band?\n<p>The Ku-Band as defined by IEEE is a frequency range from 12 to 18 GHz. IEEE uses letters to signify a range of frequencies from 1 to 170 GHz. The Ku-band is mostly used for satellite TV and for VSAT systems on ships. <br \/><br \/><strong>Some Key Applications of the Ku-Band: <\/strong><br \/><br \/>Fixed Satellite Service (FSS) (11.7 to 12.7 GHz): This is the part of Ku-band spectrum is used for Fixed Satellite Services. Almost every antenna dish ranging from 1 meter to 1.7 meter size is used for FSS band reception. Free-To-Air (FTA) satellite systems also use the FSS band. <br \/><br \/>Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) (12.2 to 12.7 GHz): This is the part of Ku-band spectrum used for Direct Satellite Broadcasting. This band is reserved for high powered satellites intended for the delivery of digital television. <br \/><br \/>Key Points of the Ku band: <br \/>\u2022 The wide spacing between satellites allows for very high powered transmissions which results in the ability to use smaller dish antennas for VSAT applications. <br \/><br \/>\u2022 Ku band incurs lesser terrestrial interference. <br \/><br \/>\u2022 The wavelength of the Ku-Band from 16.7 to 25 mm starts to see some signal attenuation due to rain drops. This effect gets worse as you go above the Ku-Band wavelength to the K-Band. <br \/><br \/>Click here to see the other IEEE\/Radar Letter Frequency Bands. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/jkdishinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/about1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 350px;\" src=\"https:\/\/jkdishinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/L-S-C-X-Ku-K-Ka-Frequency-Bands-latest.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/><br \/>Ku Band described by using NATO<br \/>NATO had a separate frequency band notation machine which is now obsolete. They additionally had a frequency band represented via the letter Ku. This band had a frequency vary from 10.9 to 20 GHz. \u201cKu\u201d stands for \u201cKurz unten\u201d \u2013 German for the band simply below the \u201cshort\u201d or K-band (which begins at 20 GHz).<\/p>\n<a rel=\"\">Join Us<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the Ku-Band? The Ku-Band as defined by IEEE is a frequency range from 12 to 18 GHz. IEEE uses letters to signify a range of frequencies from 1 to 170 GHz. The Ku-band is mostly used for satellite TV and for VSAT systems on ships. Some Key Applications of the Ku-Band: Fixed Satellite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1045,919],"tags":[1053,1046,1049,1052,1048,1050,1047,1051],"class_list":["post-2399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ku-band","category-lnb","tag-ku-band-frequency","tag-ku-band-frequency-list","tag-ku-band-full-form","tag-ku-band-radar","tag-ku-band-satellite","tag-ku-band-vs-c-band","tag-ku-band-antenna","tag-satellite-frequency-bands-list"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkdishinfo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkdishinfo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkdishinfo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkdishinfo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkdishinfo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jkdishinfo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408,"href":"https:\/\/jkdishinfo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions\/2408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkdishinfo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkdishinfo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkdishinfo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkdishinfo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}