ATV on APRS

September 15, 2009 by kb3ljm.

From Bob Bruninga, WB4APR

My first love before APRS was ATV… Although APRS has distracted me for 17 years now, tonght I noticed that our local ATV group is still alive and well with DOZENS of stations on the air.

Why can’t I see them on APRS? That was the idea with the ATV symbol! If an ATV station is transmitting, then he should also be beaconing on APRS so that everyone can SEE the location and activity of everyone on the ATV net.

So, maybe it is time to go light a fire over there and get them all to hook up some TNC’s or “trackers” to their PTT line so that when they are on the air, then their ATV symbol also shows up on APRS. A quick press of the “only-ATV symbols” button would then instantly reveal an APRS map of the ATV activity in progress.

Any old TNC will do, or any of the $30 APRS tracking devices will also do… The tinytrack3 and opentrack+ look good for this task. Allthey have to do is put this beacon into their TNC or tracker:

!DDMM.mmN/DDDMM.mmWV439.250MHz ATV on air, Bob

Via ONE HOP only…

For example would be the format of such a beacon sent once every 5 minutes while the ATV station is transmitting.

Where can we promote this in the ATV circles?

Bob, WB4APR

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HAM TV Website Announcement

September 3, 2009 by kb3ljm.

There’s now a Amateur Radio streaming video site on the web. www.hamtv.org

Ham Radio TV Events, Communication & Electronics History Webcast With High Speed Internet And Windows Media Player is located at http://www.hamtv.org . Providing a dedicated high performance server with plenty of bandwith to the amateur radio community free of charge.

If your amateur radio club or organization or equipment manufacture has amateur radio related digital video to donate, please send a link for downloading to Robert Koch, wa6uvv@arrl.net with the subject line “consideration to be webcast”.

Formats accepted are in english 320 X 240 Windows Media, FLASH, MOV, Mpeg 1, Mpeg 2, and Real Video. at 500 Kbps. or Greater for conversion.

http://www.hamtv.org/

[eham.net]

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Watch the RSGB News Online on ATV

May 8, 2009 by kb3ljm.

Watch the RSGB News Online on ATV:
Website: http://www.batc.tv/
Roy, G8CKN reads the rsgb news every Sunday at 0830 GMT on amateur television. It can be watched live by anyone in the world on the batc streamer under the members stream callsign: g8ckn.
http://www.batc.tv/
A recording is also available at: http://www.superiorsignals.co.uk/gb3hv.com/gb2rs.html
It will also be available soon on the batc web site tv streamer under film archive:
http://www.batc.tv/
73 Ian G3ZHI

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Here’s Looking at you! WANTED: BRATS on the ATV Repeater

February 23, 2009 by kb3ljm.

The ATV repeater is working fine. We need more BRATS members to use the repeater. The repeateris working fine! Please check in to the nets (see back page for schedule) and use the repeater!

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ATV Guide

November 10, 2008 by kb3ljm.

Scheduled Program Guide for ATV
Monday:

• SCART Net (GB3IV)
  http://g7jtt.camstreams.com

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60 Years of ATV

September 8, 2008 by kb3ljm.

Ian Waters, G3KKD, has been involved in ATV for 60 years and in his video on the BATC TC website, he reflects on how ATV has changed. Go to www.batc.tv and click on film archives, then use the select drop down menu to watch the video. [RSGB]

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HF with FFT-TV

March 28, 2008 by kb3ljm.

From: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/march2008/fft_tv.htm

I received an email a very interesting email from WA6NUT. I had never heard of FFT-TV until he brought it up. Here is his email:

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Hello Bryon, N6IFU,
Congratulations on your ATV Newsletter (I look forward to each issue). And your “Everything you Wanted to Know…” book on ATV is very helpful, too. Read the rest of this entry »

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LOCAL ATV NETS

October 9, 2007 by kb3ljm.

Tuesday, 11:45 AM – Informal Net.

W3WVV (audio on 147.03/R)

Wednesday, 9 PM CATS Net

Rotating net control, (audio on 145.43)

Thursday, 9 PM, BRATS NET

Rotating net control (audio: 147.03/R)

Sunday, MATS NET, KB3LNN

3 PM: International; 8 PM Standard
(BRATS ATV and linked FM repeaters)

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ATV News

April 18, 2007 by kb3ljm.

From: TOMSMB@aol.com
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:54:15 EDT
We are shipping out the last TC70-20Sa ATV Transceivers today. We cant make another production run because the 20W power module is no longer manufactured. We have a few modules left for repairs and PA5’s, but not enough to justify the cost of a small production quantity. Meanwhile, we are working with Videolynx to come out with a 5-10 Watt 70cm Transmitter. Watch our New for 2007 web page for the announcement on availability and price, but we expect it to be ready this summer. It will work with the Mirage D1010N-ATV or DEMI 70225PA linear amps for higher power and with our TVC-4G downconverter to receive. For those that cant wait to get on, you can package your own system using our board modules or use the RTX70-1 1 Watt transmitter driving a Mirage D26N 50 Watt pep amp - check out our web site.
Tom O’Hara W6ORG P. C. Electronics www.hamtv.com 626-447-4565 m-th 8am-5:30pm Pacific time

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Area ATV meeting 3/25

March 6, 2007 by kb3ljm.

Sunday, March 25, 2007, 10:30 AM till 4 PM
Historical Electronics Museum
West Nursery Rd. Linthicum …

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