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Satellite TV reception at UCC Cork in 1979 (article)

  • 22-09-2008 9:10am
    #1
    Antenna
    Registered Users Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭


    This might be interesting for some people here...
    Discovered in someone's collection of old 'Television' Magazines:
    This in the March 1979 edition of Television magazine in its TVDX section:

    mention of pioneering Ku-band satellite TV reception from the OTS-2 satellite way
    back then at University College Cork (UCC) :
    click to open:
    tvm1979uccsattd6.th.jpgthpix.gif


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  • #2
    Fat_Fingers
    Registered Users Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭Fat_Fingers


    i propose a new sub-forum to Cable & Digital TV, to be called "Reeling In The Years" :D


  • #3
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,095 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    Fat_Fingers wrote: »
    i propose a new sub-forum to Cable & Digital TV, to be called "Reeling In The Years" :D
    We already have Broadcasting History forum, where I think this thread is more appropriate.


  • #4
    Zaphod
    Registered Users Posts: 1,733 ✭✭✭Zaphod


    Are the old copies of Television yours? Interesting that a dish as small as 2.4M was enough in 1979. Bob Cooper's book is also a great read if you're into TVRO history.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPGb7kU-rms


  • #5
    Antenna
    Registered Users Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭Antenna


    re. the TV magazines, I took them from a person who was going to dispose them a few years ago (he was long gone from the 'TV trade' and wanted to get rid of them).
    Not a complete set, but most during the 1980s, early 1990s and a few from the late 1970s!

    The following month (April 1979) had more details of satellite reception at UCC, and that of an enthusiast in the UK, in the TV-DX pages:

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