41. In 1973 the company displayed a portable satellite earth station at a communications trade show in California. 42. The Australian government gave its consent for the construction of a satellite earth station at Carnarvon, Western Australia. 43. The Andover Earth Station was equipped with a giant horn antenna, 7 stories high and weighing 340 tons. 44. Foreign TV broadcasters have to use Hongkong Telecom's earth station to send their signals for redistribution in Asia. 45. The leg of the signal path from the satellite to the receiving Earth station is called the downlink. 46. A small earth station for satellite transmission that handles up to 56 kbit / s of digital transmission. 47. He also appears occasionally on the RevolutionSF " Revcast " Roundtable podcast and the Earth Station One Podcast. 48. The satellite beams the message back to an earth station , which shoots it back to the satellite again. 49. The original concept was for a large corporation to install SBS earth stations at each of its major sites. 50. ATIS is only required for analog TV transmission and only via satellites or earth stations under United States jurisdiction.