Before revision: In microwave and satellite receivers it is often called the low-noise block (LNB) or low-noise downconverter (LND ) and is often located at the antenna, so that the signal from the antenna can be transferred to the rest of the receiver at the more easily handled intermediate frequency.
After revision: In microwave and satellite receivers it is often called the low-noise block downconverter (LNB ) and is often located at the antenna, so that the signal from the antenna can be transferred to the rest of the receiver at the more easily handled intermediate frequency.