Satellite TV reception at UCC Cork in 1979 (article)

Antenna

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) :
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Fat_Fingers

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

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Fat_Fingers wrote: »

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

We already have Broadcasting History forum, where I think this thread is more appropriate.

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

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: