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   ocr: RADIO DISH HORN HORN DISH RADIO BEAM DISH Many satellites and ground stations have radio dishes that both transmit and receive signals. These dishes have a curved shape, calleda parabola. The parabolic dish retlects outgoing signals from the centralhorn to form a beam, and reflects incoming beams onto the horn.