The Coop Legacy - 63 Years in the Making

[Scott Greczkowski]

Back before there were DBS satellites... hell before there was a commercial satellite industry there was this guy... Bob Cooper who put it all on the line to help bring satellite television to homes across America.

Sure you can call him a satellite pirate, but it was different then he was fighting to give us what nobody would sell us. A satellite pirate then was not like one now. It can be said without Bob Cooper there would be no Satellite TV industry, and for that matter no SatelliteGuys website if it was not for Bob Cooper.

Now you can go relive the birth and the glory days of the real satellite industry with Bob's new site:

Home

If you grew up with C Band Satellite then you will want to go back and relive Satellite TV's real glory days with Bob. Its not perfect but its a great place to relive those memories.

Congrats Bob on the new site, and thanks for all you did to bring Satellite Television HOME!

 

[comfortably_numb]

Cool site. Thanks for sharing. Going to take me a long time to dig through that archive!

He mentions having CNN's first broadcast in his archive, but it's not linked there. In case anybody wants to see that, here it is:

 

[NYDutch]

A lot of really interesting stuff there, and some that brings back some really old memories to this 76 year old! Thanks!

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

By the way... Bob tells me this is just phase one with more to come over time.

With that said plenty to read and enjoy now.


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[primestar31]

I used to subscribe to Coop's Satellite Digest. I remember when the ads came out for the Turks & Caicos island conference, to discuss Vc-2 hacks... I also remember what happened to many people that came back from the conference...

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Got a note from Bob, he is looking for an email address for Bob Taggart from Chaparral.

If anyone has it can they please send it to me in a PM. Thanks.


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[primestar31]

Got a note from Bob, he is looking for an email address for Bob Taggart from Chaparral.

If anyone has it can they please send it to me in a PM. Thanks.


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You could send a message to him via his LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-taggart-75b2a320/

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Yeah I sent that to him already.

 

[MikeI]

motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/satellite-television-zmaz80mjzraw

I found this article from 1980. Not sure if it's on his website or not.

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[Comptech]

I know this is a old thread, but liked to listen to Bob when Mike and Ralf had the radio show on air, If it wasn't for them, I would not have ever know one of the greatest satellite pioneers was my neighbor. Robert Coleman Jr.

 

[Comptech]

Bob was great, we need more like him

 

[Comptech]

Coop and coleman set up one of the first satellite distributions right here in TR,serving TR and Marirta way back when, spelled Marietta wrong but you now what i i am saying

 

[Comptech]

Mike Khol step in.

 

[c-spand]

Thanks Scott and Coop! Good times in the 80"s we had a 12ft paraclipse and Drake receiver.

 

[c-spand]

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Back before there were DBS satellites... hell before there was a commercial satellite industry there was this guy... Bob Cooper who put it all on the line to help bring satellite television to homes across America.

Sure you can call him a satellite pirate, but it was different then he was fighting to give us what nobody would sell us. A satellite pirate then was not like one now. It can be said without Bob Cooper there would be no Satellite TV industry, and for that matter no SatelliteGuys website if it was not for Bob Cooper.

Now you can go relive the birth and the glory days of the real satellite industry with Bob's new site:

Home

If you grew up with C Band Satellite then you will want to go back and relive Satellite TV's real glory days with Bob. Its not perfect but its a great place to relive those memories.

Congrats Bob on the new site, and thanks for all you did to bring Satellite Television HOME!

The link is down?

 

[a33]

The link is down?

Here still is a lot:

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CATJ: Community Antenna Television Journal
CSD: Coop's Satellite Journal
CJR: Cooper James Report (CSD2 after February 1984 )

Greetz,
A33

 

[a33]

Now you can go relive the birth and the glory days of the real satellite industry with Bob's new site:

Home

Ah! I just noticed that this is the proper link to the Bob Cooper website: www.bobcooper.tv

(In the old link, in the picture of the first post, it has one "tv" too much.)

Greetz,
A33