Patent ID: 8369772

Claim:
A band-stacked low-noise block converter, comprising: a first input configured to receive a first satellite feed having a first television signal carried on a first polarized frequency band and a second television signal carried on a second polarized frequency band; a first filter operationally connected to the first input and configured to remove the first television signal from the first satellite feed and to provide the first television signal as output; a first oscillator configured to output a first oscillator signal at a first frequency; a first mixer operationally connected to the first filter and to the first oscillator, the first mixer configured to mix the first filter output and the first oscillator signal into a first mixer output having the first television signal carried thereon; a second filter operationally connected to the first input and configured to remove the second television signal from the first satellite feed and to provide the second television signal as output; a second oscillator configured to output a second oscillator signal at a second frequency; a second mixer operationally connected to the second filter and to the second oscillator, the second mixer configured to mix the second filter output and the second oscillator signal into a second mixer output having the second television signal carried thereon; a first combiner operationally connected to the first mixer output and to the second mixer output, the first combiner configured to frequency stack the first mixer output and the second mixer output into a first combiner output having the first and second television signals together in a first band stacked signal; an auxiliary input configured to receive output from a low-noise block converter feed having third and fourth television signals together in a second band stacked signal; and a band translation block connected to at least the first combiner output and to the auxiliary input, the band translation block configured to receive requests and, in response, to process the first and second band-stacked signals to output two of the first, second, third, and fourth television signals in a band stacked signal on a predetermined frequency from a first band translation block output.