Early ku systems

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Does anyone remember the early ku systems in the '80's? You had to have a lna with video and audio cables? also had a pulse cable for the motor.:coffee
 
I don't have any first hand experience, but I've heard that the signal going down the line was actually 3.7-4.2 GHz. So it had to be very 'low loss' feed line.


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In '87 I had a 9' spun aluminum dish installed (c-band). Upgraded the feedhorn to a C/Ku ADL in about 1990.

The only recollection of ku I have is of two NBC channels on F5. A half hour of Tom Brokaw news - the rest of the time were color bars.
 
Their 'main' feeds are on 105W C band. All Ku itinerant feeds are for convenience of portability. IMHO.
 
Any reason why NBC went to KU band in the first place in the 80's? Just wondering...:coffee

I think it was probably because when Satcom K1 and K2 were launched around 1983 or 84, NBC was still owned by RCA, that also owned RCA Satcom. If I remember right back around '85-'86 RCA and HBO tried to get cable headends to convert to the Ku-Band. They offered free Ku earthstations to cable operators. HBO and Cinemax E & W were on K1 or K2, and HBO's short lived "Festival" family oriented movie service was Ku only in addition to being unavailable to TVRO.
 
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