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Why are dish antennas curved?

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Dish antenna is curved so as it can receive prallel signal rays coming from same direction. These parallel signal rays reflect from parabolic dish, and gathered main antenna part. This increases directivity of antenna, and gives sufficient amplitude signal.
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