'Good Bye Lenin' and the Dish Network Satellite Legacy

Anyone who lived during the cold war knows what 40 years of mitigating limited public television can do to a population. The recent 2003 movie 'Good Bye Lenin' and the Dish Network Satellite legacy tell the same tale of innovation and the responsibility that comes with a free world economy of unlimited viewing options. Understanding Dish Network Satellite television transmission means knowing some basic physics, what radio waves are and how they travel from broadcasting stations on the other side of the planet, to our TV sets.

A Dish Network Satellite Lesson in Basic Physics

Electrons are invisible particles that scientists still don't understand, but long ago physicists created subjective representations of what they are and how they should work. But the Dish Network Satellite wasn't ready just like that "poof" and it was there, no, a lot of theoretical, philosophical and scientific research was done before any engineer even began building the first Sputnik. If we take a nail an wrap some copper wire around it, then put a battery touching positive to either end of the copper wire, and the same on the other end, we get a closed circuit and an electromagnet. The electromagnet creates a field around it, because the circuit causes electrons to migrate from positive to negative charge. That movement creates a magnetic field that attracts metal objects. The more powerful the battery, the farther from the nail an object can be and still be attracted.

Radio Waves that reach The Dish Network Satellite Cosmonaut Frontier

Metaphorically speaking, the Dish Network Satellite uses radio waves which are created by flipping our battery around at incredible speeds back and forth like a wave of Karate punches hitting the electrons back and forth throughout the circuit. The alternating magnetic field travels, like ripples in water when you throw a stone. The end result is a radio wave. If it is powerful enough it will leave earths orbit as did Sigmund Jahn on the 26th of August 1978 in East Germany. As powerful as watching 'Good Bye Lenin' on Dish Network Satellite TV and reliving the whole experience of that blast-off, radio waves have to both launch that kind of signal power in order to reach the Dish Network Satellite itself and still keep the perfect sound of a pin dropping.

Receiving, Converting and Transmitting on a Dish Network Satellite among the Four Corners of the Earth

Now transmitting a certain signal means flipping the battery over as fast as necessary and in a certain pattern, each pattern with a code, say 0's and 1's. When our nail on the earth (also known as a broadcasting station) sends a traveling magnetic field, encoded with 0 and 1 info, it is transmitting digital radio signals. Hitting the Dish Network Satellite nail (also known as a receiving antenna), the computer of the Satellite makes sense of the info being sent and then resend to your home TV.

The interesting thing about Dish Network Satellite TV is that it will accept signals from far across the earth surface and transmit those signals directly to a selected area on earth (for example the entire United States). The Dish Network Satellite is stationary above the equator and always points towards your dish. Other signals from say East Germany, are sending their signals to the Dish Network Satellite which is always catching the info and resending it back to where it points, in this case the US. Thereby opening the entire world to your living room television. 'Good Bye Lenin' and the Dish Network Satellite legacy show us that by uniting our worlds resources through television, we are also uniting a world in responsibilities and the freedom of choices that come with such responsibilities.

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