Henry Taylor Howard

As a radio engineer for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, "Tay" was the principal investigator on several experiment packages taken to the moon on Apollo missions. He also worked on the Mariner 10 probe and the Galileo project. As a ham radio operator, Howard enjoyed combining his space knowledge and radio knowledge to bounce radio signals off the moon to talk to the other side of Earth. In the 1970s, Howard realized that if people built the right kind of antenna and receiver, they could get TV transmissions by directly tapping into the networks' satellite program feeds. He created the first known home satellite TV receiver in 1976, and in 1979 he wrote The Howard Terminal Manual to explain to others how to do it. The book spawned an industry: today more than 20 million U.S. households have home satellite TV dishes. He died November 13 when he crashed his small plane near his home in California. He was 70. From This is True for 10 November 2002 Suggestions for further reading: Creating Powerful Radio: Getting, Keeping and Growing Audiences News, Talk, I... by Valerie Geller Amazon Price: $37.00 Customer Review: "CREATING POWERFUL RADIO" authored by Valerie Geller is THE BIBLE of learning, crafting, designing, and implementing your broadcasting vision!!! Period. I know . . . because "CREATING POWERFUL RADIO" did that for me!!! Wri...   Start a TV Station:Learn How to Start Satellite, Cable, Analog and Digital Br... by Brock Fisher Amazon Price: $31.67 Customer Review: First, this book is tiny. Only 77 pages, including 10 for the glossary. And those pages are only about 5.25 x 7.75 inches. Use Amazon's Look Inside feature to get a feel for the wide spacing on those pages. I've had larger user manuals. ...   Satellite Circus by Harrington, Kent Amazon Price: Customer Review: Talk to thriller writers about the authors they most admire, and it doesn't take long the name "Kent Harrington" to come up. His sharp, nuanced stories draw comparisons to John Le Carre and Graham Greene, but the books have been almost impossible to...   International Marine's Weather Predicting Simplified: How to Read Weather Cha... by Michael Carr Amazon Price: Customer Review: This is a well-written book but the reader needs a basic weather textbook or general weather book to get the most of Capt. Carr's book.   The Weekend Navigator by Sweet, Robert J. Amazon Price: Customer Review: I am buying a boat for the first time since my teenage years in the 60's. This book really gives me the data I'll need to navigate the very shallow Barnegat Bay. First rate and understandable.   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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