Operation Manual

Section 5 Glossary User Manual
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SVHS SVHS (Super-VHS) is a video signal with separated chrominance
and luminance. SVHS is an improvement for the VHS (composite)
video as found on VCR tapes.
Transponder Equipment inside a satellite responsible for receiving a single
uplinked channel and rebroadcasting it back to Earth.
Vertical In the satellite industry, vertical is used to indicate the direction in
which the received signal is polarized. Normally you will find that it
is abbreviated as V.