Patent ID: 8132214

Claim:
A low noise block converter feedhorn, comprising: a signal receiver operative to receive at least a first input signal and a second input signal; an oscillator operative to generate a first reference signal; a first mixer operative to receive the first input signal from the signal receiver, further operative to mix the first input signal with the first reference signal to create a first translated signal; a second mixer operative to receive the second input signal from the signal receiver, further operative to mix the second input signal with the first reference signal to create a second translated signal; a band translating circuit operative to at least generate a second reference signal; a third mixer operative to mix the first translated signal with the second reference signal to create a third translated signal; a first combiner operative to stack the third translated signal and second translated signal into a first single stacked signal; and the band translating circuit connected to an output of the first combiner, the band translating circuit further operative to receive the first single stacked signal from the first combiner and to create at least a first stacked output.