Robert B. Cooper is a U.S. electronics journalist specialising in CATV, and long distance terrestrial and satellite TVRO television reception. The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America, the States, or (archaically) Columbia—is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii). ... Electronics is the study and use of electrical devices that operate by controlling the flow of electrons or other electrically charged particles in devices such as thermionic valves and semiconductors. ... A journalist is a person engaged in the profession of journalism. ... Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (and often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio waves transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional... A satellite is an object that orbits another object (known as its primary). ... Television receive-only, or TVRO, refers to satellite television reception equipment that is based primarily on open standards equipment. ...

In 1954, Cooper founded the AIPA (American Ionospheric Propagation Association), which was the forerunner of the WTFDA (Worldwide TV-FM DX Association).

From 1956 onwards, Cooper wrote articles for Popular Electronics, which introduced readers to long distance television reception (TV DX). From 1956 to February 1960 he compiled and wrote the Radio-Electronics TV-FM DX Column. A magazine published in the United States from 1954 to 2003, by Gernsback Publications (headed by Hugo Gernsback, author and inventor, and publisher of numerous technical, science fiction, and pulp magazines). ... The worlds largest antenna system designed for receiving distant 88-108 MHz broadcast FM signals is located in southern Sweden. ... Radio electronics is the sub-field of electrical engineering concerning itself with the class of electronic circuits which receive or transmit radio signals. ...

In January 1960, Cooper published the first edition of DXing Horizons which later broke into four parts - TV Horizons, Communication Horizons, VHF Horizons, and CB Horizons. TV Horizons was the first technical magazine for the cable TV industry.

In 1964, Cooper designed and built more than a dozen cable TV systems which were 12 channel (state of the art at the time) employing some innovative chicken wire parabolic antennas for long distance VHF and UHF television reception. Very high frequency (VHF) is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz (wavelength 10 m) to 300 MHz (wavelength 1 m). ... This article is about the radio frequency. ...

In 1968, then living in the American Virgin Islands he designed the Interdigital Preamplifier, which in the September issue of Popular Electronics attracted front cover coverage and ten interior pages for the "All American Sports Amplifier" (AASA) - the original "beat the NFL/AFL TV blackout box."

From 1971 through 1974, he founded and ran CADCO - the leading edge TV and FM reception hardware technology firm from Oklahoma City. CADCO designed, manufactured the equipment for, and turn-key installed more than 50 such "small town CATV systems" worldwide over the next decade. The State Capitol of Oklahoma Looking at Downtown Oklahoma City The Flag of Oklahoma City Oklahoma City (sometimes abbreviated as OKC) is the capitol and largest city of the state of Oklahoma in the United States of America. ...

And from 1974 to 1979, he created and edited CATJ - Community Antenna Television Journal, which in 1976 designed and publicized the very first ever C-band "home" satellite dish system. Writing about it in TV Guide, his report attracted more than 10,000 inquiries from viewers who wanted their own home (C-band) dish system. He and Ted Turner held the ONLY C-band private (home) FCC "dish licenses" ever granted from 1977 onward. Robert Edward Ted Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American media mogul and philanthropist. ... The acronym FCC can refer to: Farm Credit Corporation/Farm Credit Canada, a Canadian government organization Federal Communications Commission, a US government organization Families with Children from China, an adoption support organization Florida Christian College, a college in central Florida Foreign Correspondents Club, a group of clubs for correspondents and...

In 1990, Cooper moved to New Zealand where he continues to publish several trade journals dealing with Satellite, and DVB-T (digital terrestrial) reception. A satellite is an object that orbits another object (known as its primary). ... DVB, short for Digital Video Broadcasting, is a suite of internationally accepted, open standards for digital television maintained by the DVB Project, an industry consortium with more than 300 members, and published by a Joint Technical Committee (JTC) of European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC...

External Links

• Bob Cooper's SatFACTS home page (http://www.apsattv.com/satfacts.html)