Air Force Airman 1st Class Benjamin Braund and Air Force Staff Sgt. Manenita Matanguihan, both radio frequency transmission systems technicians with the 18th Communications Squadron, handle a Very Small Aperture Terminal satellite transceiver at Kadena Air Base, Japan, March 5, 2021. A transceiver has a transmitter and receiver built into one unit. The transceiver converts a band of frequencies from an intermediate frequency to a higher frequency and transmits the converted and amplified signal to the satellite.

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Photo credit: © Operation 2021 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: 18cs, air, aperture, base, kadena, pacaf, small, terminal, uspacom, vsat