Community Antenna TV System

Community Antenna TV System:

The CATV system employs a single outdoor unit, with separate feeds available for each sense of polarization, like the MATV system, so that all channels are made available simultaneously at the indoor receiver.

Instead of having a separate receiver for each user, all the carriers are demodulated in a common receiver-filter system, as shown in Fig. The channels are then combined into a standard multiplexed signal for transmission over cable to the subscribers.

In remote areas where a cable distribution system may not be installed, the signal can be rebroadcast from a low-power VHF TV transmitter.

Figure shows a remote TV station which employs an 8-m (26.2-ft) antenna for reception of the satellite TV signal in the C band.

With the CATV system, local programming material also may be dis- tributed to subscribers, an option which is not permitted in the MATV system.