Home Satellite TV Pioneer Memories
197 pages dedicated to that small cadre of "real pioneers" who, prior to 1980, created the technology and hand fabricated the hardware which laid a foundation far all that followed.
Learn about the beginning of the back yard dish told by one of the pioneers of the back yard satellite dish.
During April 2007 a group approaching 100 gathered during a satellite industry trade meeting in Atlanta, Georgia to "celebrate" the rapidly fading memories of the 1978-1987 period known as "The C-Band Days". The half-dozen (all hams or ex-ham) folk who started in 1978 with perhaps ten private, experimental C-band (4 GHz) hand crafted reception systems had turned into thousands of (largely ham) experimenters by 1986 with more than 3,000,000 consumer "home dish systems" in the ground, spread over six continents ranging in antenna size from 4' to some monsters pushing 40' (such as the system installed by Florida pioneer [and ham] Bob Behar for "The Marcos Family" in the Philippines).
To focus the aging group Coop asked more than 20 'fellow pioneers' to write their own "Best C-Band Story" and these appear in a special limited-edition book properly titled "C-Band Remembered"; 197 pages of totally unique stories. Well known and respected amateur Bob Heil (K9EID) comments on this book (Heil's firm installed more than 2,000 C-Band systems; see his "Field of Dreams" photo here. YES - the 'same' Heil as creates amateur/ham and professional audio gear including microphone sets).
| Item specifics | |
|---|---|
| Item | Book |
| Title |
C-BAND REMEMBERED Home Satellite TV Pioneer Memories |
| Author | Robert B. Cooper |
| ISBN | 0-9777980-0-2 |
| Country | United States of America |
| Year | 2007 |
| Edition | First Edition |
| Language | English |
| Page Count | 197 |
| Binding/Media | Paperback |
| Condition |
New, Unused See actual pictures. |
| Price | $19.95 |
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