If it wasn't for Bob Cooper then there might not have been a "Satellite Industry" here in the USA. Bob fought hard to allow us the right to receive satellite signals in our homes and he paid a price for it along the way.
Bob got his start in the early 70's and published a magazine for the just starting Cable Television Industry called the Community Antenna Television Journal (CATJ) after that he then got into satellite and worked to make it legal for us to receive satellite signals at home. He is most famous for his satellite publication Coops Satellite Digest which was published from 1980 through 1987.
Bob also on to published other publications such the Cooper James Report from 1983 - 1985.
Bob is fighting hard to insure that the early days of satellite are not forgotten and he has published all of his works such as CATJ and Coops Satellite Digest online for anyone to view, and he wanted us to pass it along.
If you want to learn about the real history of Satellite plug look back at the changes in the equipment over the years then you might want to check out http://www.theoldcatvequipmentmuseum.org/coop/
Now one thing I want to point out, many people consider Bob Cooper a "Satellite Pirate" that definition of "Satellite Pirate" is different that what people think of today. In those days if you were watching a signal with a dish and you were not authorized to do so you were a pirate. Thing progressed from there when scrambling of the signals started. People like Bob wanted to pay for services such as HBO, but HBO did not want to sell to home satellite viewers. So Bob and other came up with ways to unscramble the signals. (What makes this interesting is many of these pirates were not trying to steal service, in fact many of them mailed HBO a check for their service!) Now normally at SatelliteGuys we have a firm rule on stealing service, but this was a different time and different circumstances. It is a part of satellite history and if it were not for people like Bob doing this chances are we would have the satellite services we enjoy today.
Today however a Satellite Pirate is a different beast, its a person who steals service and has no intention of paying for it. This is the kind of talk that we don't allow here at SatelliteGuys.
So again take a step back and go back in time with us to the birth of Home Satellite!
Check out http://www.theoldcatvequipmentmuseum.org/coop/ today!
Bob got his start in the early 70's and published a magazine for the just starting Cable Television Industry called the Community Antenna Television Journal (CATJ) after that he then got into satellite and worked to make it legal for us to receive satellite signals at home. He is most famous for his satellite publication Coops Satellite Digest which was published from 1980 through 1987.
Bob also on to published other publications such the Cooper James Report from 1983 - 1985.
Bob is fighting hard to insure that the early days of satellite are not forgotten and he has published all of his works such as CATJ and Coops Satellite Digest online for anyone to view, and he wanted us to pass it along.
If you want to learn about the real history of Satellite plug look back at the changes in the equipment over the years then you might want to check out http://www.theoldcatvequipmentmuseum.org/coop/
Now one thing I want to point out, many people consider Bob Cooper a "Satellite Pirate" that definition of "Satellite Pirate" is different that what people think of today. In those days if you were watching a signal with a dish and you were not authorized to do so you were a pirate. Thing progressed from there when scrambling of the signals started. People like Bob wanted to pay for services such as HBO, but HBO did not want to sell to home satellite viewers. So Bob and other came up with ways to unscramble the signals. (What makes this interesting is many of these pirates were not trying to steal service, in fact many of them mailed HBO a check for their service!) Now normally at SatelliteGuys we have a firm rule on stealing service, but this was a different time and different circumstances. It is a part of satellite history and if it were not for people like Bob doing this chances are we would have the satellite services we enjoy today.
Today however a Satellite Pirate is a different beast, its a person who steals service and has no intention of paying for it. This is the kind of talk that we don't allow here at SatelliteGuys.
So again take a step back and go back in time with us to the birth of Home Satellite!
Check out http://www.theoldcatvequipmentmuseum.org/coop/ today!
