Greetings, To my pleasant surprise, there seems to be a surge in local ATV activity. If you're interested in ATV, I suggest you check out the attached newsletter - you can subscribe for free. <http://us.mc831.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=atv-newsletter@hotmail.com> atv-newsletter@hotmail.com There is a lot of ATV info available at these links, too. www.sbarc.org/sigs/atv/index.html www.flickr.com/photos/rodfritz/sets/72157622098395703/show/ <http://www.atn-tv.org> www.atn-tv.org <http://www.sbatv.org> www.sbatv.org Please join us at the SBARC ATV Net on 19/79 Tuesday nights at 8:30pm. We look forward to seeing you on ham radio real soon, Rod WB9KMO From: Bryon Foster [mailto:atv-newsletter@hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 7:15 PM Subject: ATV Newsletter November 10, 2009 ATV Newsletter November 10, 2009 Circulation 1500+ Vol. 3 No. 15 In this Edition: * World News this Week * K6BEN Web Site Change * News Hams Using George's Amateur Television On Line * Digital-ATV * Who's Doing Digital ATV * Another DATV Update from Ken, W6HHC * Buy-Sell-Trade * ATV Guide * Proposed Upcoming Live Webcasts on BATC.TV * ATV DXing * On Line Internet Repeater for Ham Radio & Amateur TV * ATV Website Guide * Oat Mtn. News * This weeks Joke * Southern California News * Repeater Reports * Repairs Needed * Letters to the Editor __________________________________________________________ World News this Week __________________________________________________________ K6BEN Web Site Change Email from Ben W2NYC about his K6BEN ATV repeater: This is the web page that should be listed, Thanks for all your good work that you do with the News Letter. www.k6ben_svatv.tripod.com <http://www.k6ben_svatv.tripod.com/> Regards W2NYC Ben Carlucci ************************** I have made the change in the "ATV Web Site Guide". Check out Ben's Web SIte. ****************************************** New Hams Using George's Amateur Television On Line George was so kind to send me an Update of the Hams using his On Line ATV Repeater. Here are the new additions. Web Page: <http://www.ac6rb.com/> www.ac6rb.com N3BFZ VINCENT L VITULLO, N3BFZ 30 ROSELAWN AVE LANSDOWNE, PA 19050 USA <http://us.mc1800.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=vvitullo@erols.com> vvitullo@erols.com KA3OPZ Paul A Prestia 9507 Greyhawk Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46835 USA K3ZKO RONALD B COHEN, K3ZKO 915 ROWLAND AVE CHELTENHAM, PA 19012-1913 USA <http://us.mc1800.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=k3zko@verizon.net> k3zko@verizon.net Espana On Line EA4ENO - Angel Mateu - Madrid Espana George Migliarini (AC6RB) ( Phone: 1.949.357-8062 * Email: <http://us.mc1800.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=gmigliarini@cox.net> gmigliarini@cox.net ________________________________________ Digital-ATV ________________________________________________ Who's Doing Digital ATV Here is an email from Dave G8ADM: Hi The following are known to be active on 70cm with Digital ATV. There has been quite an increase during 2009. If you know of any others, please let me know. Most stations transmit on 436.0 MHz and use a Symbol Rate of 2 MS/s FEC varies, RF bandwidth about 2 MHz. Talkback: 144.750 MHz, FM. I hope that this is of interest. 73's, Dave. G8adm --------------------------------------------------------------------------

From North to South.

U.K. Callsign Name Location 70cm Rx 70cm Tx M0DTS Rob Yarm, Co. Durham Yes Yes GW3JGA John Prestatyn, N. Wales Yes Yes G3KKD Ian Stow Cum Quy, Cambs. Yes Soon G8XTW Phil Leigton B. Bedfordshire Yes Soon G4CPE Arthur Sandon, Bedfordshire. Yes Yes G6MNJ Paul Pimlico, Herts. Yes Yes G8ASI Mike Pimlico, Herts. Yes Yes M0SAT Dave Watford, Herts. Yes Soon G7RZF Russell Watford, Herts. Yes Soon G8ADM Dave Harrow, N.W. London. Yes Yes G4BID Bill Yately, Hants. Yes No G8GTZ Noel Basingstoke, Hants. Yes Yes G8LES Mike Alton, Hants. Yes Yes G3PYB Peter Portsmouth, Hants. Yes Yes Repeaters with 70cm DATV Receive Ability GB3BH Bushey, Herts, Yes No GB3HV High Wycombe, Bucks. Temporarily off air. (There must be more!) France, Belgium, Netherlans, Germany Many stations active, none worked, please advise. **************************************************** Another DATV Update from Ken, W6HHC Hi Bryon N6IFU, Here is a DATV update that you may want to put in your ATV newsletter. I just finished a small project for TAPR, the organization that puts on the Digital Communications Conference each year jointly with the ARRL. My project was to get all of the DCC 2009 ABSTRACTS and free downloads of PDFs of conference papers up on the TAPR WEB site. The TAPR web site also now has two recent PowerPoint files on DATV (downloadable) that were both presented in 2009: "Digital Television - the new Ham frontier" by WA8RMC of ATCO "Planning a DATV Station on DVB-S" by W6HHC and KB6CJZ of OCARC The full set of DCC2009 presentation files can be found at: www.tapr.org/pub_dcc.html I hope that some of your readers may find internet access to these DATV presentations useful. 73....de Ken W6HHC Orange County Amateur Radio Club W6HHC@ARRL.net ************************************************************ Send me your D-ATV News.. atv-newsletter@hotmail.com <http://us.mc831.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=atv-newsletter@hotmail.com> _______________________________________________ Buy-Sell-Trade _______________________________________________ For Sale: 70CM Tx/Rx: PC Electronics transmitter TX70-1B Mirage D-26 Amplifier PC Electronics TVC-4G Downconverter KLM 27 element Beam 1200 MHz Rx Down East 23LNA Preamp General Instument satellite receiver (well used) M squared 1200 MHz 22 element beam 10GHZ Rx: Direct TV 2' dish LNB w/downconverter Panasonic 2000 satellite receiver (well used) General: Sony 25" commercial monitor (heavy) ELMO EV-308 Presenter w/camera VTEL SmartCam scanning/zooming computer controlled camera w/software Digital Color Quad Processor switcher $700 for everything plus shipping. Picture of the equipment are avaliable contact Ken Bird W8SMK w8smk@verizon.net <http://us.mc1800.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=w8smk@verizon.net> *************************************** For Sale PC Electronics TC-70 20 watt ATV Transceiver $400.00 Plus Shipping Mirage D-100 UHF 100 watt ATV Amplifier $300.00 Plus Shipping 910 MHz Receiver $65.00 Plus Shipping 910 MHz Filter $90.00 Plus Shipping 910 MHz 33 Element Loop Yagi $150.00 Plus Shipping Pictures Avalable Will consider trade for HF Mobile like Icom 706 MIIG Contact Tom Boon 503-749-2041 503-910-9859 Cell Aumsville, OR 97325 ******************************************** Looking for something for ATV or that hard to find item? Got some ATV Equipment you don't use and you want it to have a good home? Send your advertisement to the ATV Newsletter and I will put it in the next issue. *************************************** Anyone looking to buy, sell or trade ATV Equipment are welcomed to send your ad(s) for publication to: atv-newsletter@hotmail.com <http://us.mc831.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=atv-newsletter@hotmail.com> _______________________________________________________ ATV Guide Scheduled Program Guide for ATV Monday: 7:00 PM PDST Oregon Amateur Television Association "OATVA" Net Net held every Monday starting at 7:00 PM www.batc.tv <http://www.batc.tv/> listed under "repeater streaming" using it's repeater's call W7AMQ 11:00 PM PDST DB0HEX, Mount Brocken/ATV in Germany Round Table at (0700 UTC Tuesday) <http://www.afu-ag.de/db0hex/db0hex.m3u> http://www.afu-ag.de/db0hex/db0hex.m3u SCART Net (GB3IV) <http://g7jtt.camstreams.com/> http://g7jtt.camstreams.com Tuesday: 12:00 Noon PDST Torbay Amateur Television & Microwave Group Group Activity Night Every Tuesday at 2000 to 2200 UTC <http://www.batc.tv/> www.batc.tv under GB3TB Repeater 6:00 PM PDST ATCO ATV Net Every Tuesday (0200 UTC Wednesday) www.batc.tv <http://www.batc.tv/> under repeater streams WR8ATV & <http://wb8lga.camstreams.com/> http://wb8lga.camstreams.com 8:30 PM PDST WB9KMO Net Night Santa Barbara, CA Every Tuesday at (0430 UTC Wednesday) <http://www.batc.tv/> www.batc.tv the goto members streams and look for WB9KMO 8:00 PM PDST W7TED Repeaters Net Night Every Tuesday (0400 UTC Wednesday) <http://w7ted.camstreams.com/> http://w7ted.camstreams.com 11:00 PM PDST DB0HEX, Mount Brocken/ATV in Germany Round Table (0700 UTC Wednesday) <http://www.afu-ag.de/db0hex/db0hex.m3u> http://www.afu-ag.de/db0hex/db0hex.m3u Wednesday: 11:00 AM PDST Chat Night, GB3ZZ Every Wednesday at 1900 to 2100 UTC BATC.TV streaming video <http://www.batc.tv/> www.batc.tv then go to member streams as well as <http://www.camsecure.co.uk/> www.camsecure.co.uk 6:00 PM PDST C.A.T.S. Net Net held every Wed. 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST (0200 UTC Thursday) http://kb3lnn.camstreams.com <http://kb3lnn.camstreams.com/> 8:30 PM PDST Silicon Valley ATV Group Net held every Wed. K6BEN RPT Not currently Streaming Anyone in the area is welcomed to check-in on 145.51 MHz simplex Talk-in freq. 11:00 PM PDST DB0HEX, Mount Brocken/ATV in Germany Round Table (0700 UTC Thursday) <http://www.afu-ag.de/db0hex/db0hex.m3u> http://www.afu-ag.de/db0hex/db0hex.m3u Thursday: 12:00 Noon PDST Torbay Amateur Television & Microwave Group Group Activity Night Every Thursday at 2000 to 2200 UTC <http://www.batc.tv/> www.batc.tv under GB3TB Repeater 6:00 PM PDST B.R.A.T.S. Net Net held every Thurs. 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST (0200 UTC Firday) http://kb3lnn.camstreams.com <http://kb3lnn.camstreams.com/> 7:00 PM PDST San Bernardino Microwave Society Meeting Next meeting December 3rd Meeting are held on the first Thursday of the month. December- Doug K6JEY- visit from a manufacturer and program on USB Power Sensors Meeting start @: 7:00 to 9:00 PM PT Starts @ 0300 UTC to 0500 UTC Friday You can watch the SBMS Meeting on the The METS ATV Repeaters as well as or the ATN-CA Repeaters in Southern California or <http://www.batc.tv/> www.batc.tv them go to ATV Repeaters and click on W6ATN or try www.ac6rb.com <http://www.ac6rb.com/> then click on option #1 or #2 11:00 PM PDST DB0HEX, Mount Brocken/ATV in Germany Round Table (0700 UTC Friday) <http://www.afu-ag.de/db0hex/db0hex.m3u> http://www.afu-ag.de/db0hex/db0hex.m3u Friday: 1:00 PM PDST GB3GG, Grimsby Amateur Television Group Net Every Friday at 2100 ZULU <http://www.batc.tv/> www.batc.tv 11:00 PM PDST DB0HEX, Mount Brocken/ATV in Germany Round Table (0700 UTC Saturday) <http://www.afu-ag.de/db0hex/db0hex.m3u> http://www.afu-ag.de/db0hex/db0hex.m3u Saturday: 11:00 AM PDST Oregon Amateur Television Association "OATVA Net" Every Saturday starting at 11:00 AM www.batc.tv <http://www.batc.tv/> listed under "repeater streaming" using it's repeater's call W7AMQ 12:00 Noon PDST Spanish/English Net Argentina/CA ATV Net Held every Saturday AC6RB and Friends, everyone is welcomed www.batc.tv <http://www.batc.tv/> and found under the W6ATN Repeater stream 6:00 PM PDST M.A.T.S. Net Held every Saturday 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDST (0200 UTC Sunday) http://kb3lnn.camstreams.com <http://kb3lnn.camstreams.com/> Sunday: 1:30 AM PDST DB0HEX, Mount Brocken/ATV in Germany Round Table at (0930 UTC) <http://www.afu-ag.de/db0hex/db0hex.m3u> http://www.afu-ag.de/db0hex/db0hex.m3u 11:00 AM PDST GB3ZZ Chat Night Every Sunday at 1900 to 2100 UTC <http://www.batc.tv/> www.batc.tv Streaming video go to members stream and look for GB3ZZ and <http://www.camsecure.co.uk/> www.camsecure.co.uk as well 12:00 Noon PDST Torbay Amateur Television & Microwave Group Group Activity Night Every Sunday at 2000 to 2200 UTC <http://www.batc.tv/> www.batc.tv under GB3TB Repeater ********************************* Proposed Upcoming Live Webcasts on the BATC.TV Streaming Video <http://www.batc.tv/> http://www.batc.tv/ ? ********************************* ATV DXing KA9UVY <http://ka9uvy.camstreams.com/> http://ka9uvy.camstreams.com KA9UVY, Bob is active mostly morning during weekdays And all hours weekends. Hepburn tropo forecast page: <http://www.dxinfocenter.com/tropo.html> http://www.dxinfocenter.com/tropo.html ATV DXers post their CQ's and Reports to the ATV logger page: <http://dxworld.com/atvlog.html> http://dxworld.com/atvlog.html Hawaiian Beacons for the West Coast provided by. "KH6HME" 144.170 MHz 432.075 MHz 1296.34 MHz ********************************* Other Streaming ATV Videos Washington State RACES Station <http://w7emd.camstreams.com/> http://w7emd.camstreams.com/ W7EMD Ustream.TV http://www.ustream.tv/channel/w7emd-tv KD6ILO Mobile Camstream <http://remotev.camstreams.com/> http://remotev.camstreams.com KD6ILO ReMoTeV IP via Ustream Used as a second feed if his Camstream is being used for something else. http://ustream.tv/channel/kd6ilo-remotev K8DMR's Camstream not in operation at this time WB8LGA's Camstream Links to other camstreams and Google ATV Maps And location to view the ATCO ATV Net <http://wb8lga.camstreams.com/> http://wb8lga.camstreams.com Severnside Television Group <http://www.camsecure.co.uk/Camsecure_Radio_Amateurs.html> http://www.camsecure.co.uk/Camsecure_Radio_Amateurs.html and www.batc.tv <http://www.batc.tv/> N6GKB's Tower Cam in Yucca Valley, CA . And Back-up for the AC6RB Camstream <http://ustream.tv/channel/n6gkb> http://ustream.tv/channel/n6gkb The ATV Newsletter can not be held responsible for the content of any website, web stream or link listed in the publication. If you have a scheduled Net or Event on your Streaming Video that you would like listed in the "ATV Guide" please send your information to: atv-newsletter@hotmail.com <http://us.mc1800.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=atv-newsletter@hotmail.com> ___________________________________________ On Line Internet Repeater for Ham Radio & Amateur TV You are invited to use AC6RB's On Line Repeater, for more information go to the following web page: www.ac6rb.com <http://www.ac6rb.com/> George AC6RB California, USA ___________________________________ ATV WEBSITE GUIDE __________________________________ Acres Electronics, ZL4TAO ATV Gear www.acreselectronics.co.nz <http://www.acreselectronics.co.nz/> ATV Google Map Help Page. <http://home.roadrunner.com/~cbeener/Help/Help.htm> http://home.roadrunner.com/~cbeener/Help/Help.htm My home page <http://home.roadrunner.com/~cbeener/index.html> http://home.roadrunner.com/~cbeener/index.html The Fastscan ATV Google map <http://home.roadrunner.com/~cbeener/GMapATVQ.html> http://home.roadrunner.com/~cbeener/GMapATVQ.html Amateur Radio Victoria www.users.amateurradio.com.au <http://www.users.amateurradio.com.au/> Amateur Radio Victoria/VK3FCE www.amateurradio.com.au/vk3fce Associated Radio Amateurs of Long Beach, Inc. Club Station located on "Queen Mary" W6RO http://www.aralb.org <http://www.aralb.org/> ATCO Newsletter www.atco.tv <http://www.atco.tv/> Amateur Television Quarterly http://ATVQuarterly.com <http://atvquarterly.com/> ATV Mobile Website <http://home.comcast.net/~k8jwt> http://home.comcast.net/~k8jwt ATV Newsletter (Back Issues Only) <http://www.qsl.net/g3zhi/atvnews.htm> http://www.qsl.net/g3zhi/atvnews.htm Baltimore Radio Amateur Television Society (BRATS) http://www.bratsatv.org <http://www.bratsatv.org/> British Amateur Television Club Forums http://www.batc.org.uk/forum British Amateur Television Club Website (BATC) CQ-TV Magazine, View Back Issues and the Place to Subscribe <http://www.batc.org.uk/> http://www.batc.org.uk Cameras on Mountain Tops <http://www.aircommservices.com/> http://www.AirCommServices.com and <http://www.airsites2000.com/> http://www.AirSites2000.com Chesapeake Amateur Television Society (CATS) <http://mysite.verizon/vzev3ql6/id.html> http://mysite.verizon/vzev3ql6/id.html CQ-TV Magazine, view back issues and the place to subscribe http://www.batc.org.uk <http://www.batc.org.uk/> DATV/Digital Amateur Television Primer, G7LWT And another location you can download bask issues of the "ATV Newsletter" www.g7lwt.com <http://www.g7lwt.com/> Dutch Digital Amateur Television Site http://d-atv.com <http://d-atv.com/> G3ZHI Many Ham Radio Links <http://www.qsl.net/g3zhi> http://www.qsl.net/g3zhi GB3BH http://gb3bh.com <http://gb3bh.com/> GB3KM http://myspace.freeserve.com <http://myspace.freeserve.com/> GW6BWX's Amateur Television Electronics Projects ATV/DATV <http://www.atv-projects.com/index.html> http://www.atv-projects.com/index.html Hamoholics, 2E0GYZ www.2e0gyz.ning.com <http://www.2e0gyz.ning.com/> Historical TV & Radio Website www.pharis-video.com <http://www.pharis-video.com/> Intuitive Circuits, LLC ATV Repeater Controllers <http://www.icircuits.com/prod_atv_main.html> http://www.icircuits.com/prod_atv_main.html On-Screen ID Overlay and home page <http://www.icircuits.com/> http://www.icircuits.com Italian ATV, IK1HGI Web Site for the first Italian ATV contact to the Spanish/English Net http://xoomer.virgilio.it/atv/ac6rb.htm K6BEN-ATV http://www.k6ben_svatv.tripod.com <http://www.k6ben_svatv.tripod.com/> Las Vegas Radio Amateur Club http://www.lvrac.org <http://www.lvrac.org/> and www.hxo.com <http://www.hxo.com/> Microwave Experimenters Television System (METS) <http://www.qsl.net/kc6ccc/> http://www.qsl.net/kc6ccc/ Mini-kits Hi-Tech RF Kits and Components http://www.minikits.com.au <http://www.minikits.com.au/> MNFAT Minnesota Group/KB0OZN www.Mnfat.net <http://www.mnfat.net/> N6HOG's Weather Web http://n6hog.com <http://n6hog.com/> Oregon Amateur Television Association-Portland "OATVA" www.oregonatv.org <http://www.oregonatv.org/> P.C. Electronics <http://www.hamtv.com/> www.hamtv.com Salem Amateur Television Associations-Salem www.qsl.net/k7atv/ San Bernardino Microwave Society (SBMS) <http://www.ham-radio.com/sbms> http://www.ham-radio.com/sbms Severnside Television Group Website www.stvg.co.uk <http://www.stvg.co.uk/> http://www.batc.tv <http://www.batc.tv/> streaming website Southgate Amateur Radio Club www.southgatearc.org <http://www.southgatearc.org/> WA6NUT's page HF with FFT-TV <http://www.hamsdr.com/personaldirectory.aspx?did=1139> http://www.hamsdr.com/personaldirectory.aspx?did=1139 WWATS, Western Washington Amateur Television Society www.qsl.net/ww7ats If you have an ATV Streaming Video or ATV website that you would like to have listed in the ATV Guide please send your info to: atv-newsletter@hotmail.com <http://us.mc831.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=atv-newsletter@hotmail.com> The ATV Newsletter can not be held responsible for the content of any website, web stream or link listed in the publication. ___________________________________________ Oat Mtn. News ___________________________________________ Everything is working fine at this time. ___________________________________________ This weeks Joke: These 2 atoms were walking around when one atom says to the other one, "Hey! I think I lost an electron!" The other atom says, "Are you sure?" He replies "Yes, I'm positive." Joke from Spencer, N6IWY Got a joke? send it to <http://us.mc831.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=atv-newsletter@hotmail.com> atv-newsletter@hotmail.com _______________________________________ _______________________________________ Southern California News ____________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ATN-CA Repeater Report ____________________________________ ______________________________________ Repairs Needed for the ATN-CA Repeaters ________________________________________ Blueridge: 1. Establish link from Mt. Potosi Mt. Wilson: Oat Mtn.: 1. Replace plastic wire ties with appropriate fasteners. 2. Tune 2.4 GHz link dipole for better SWR. It would be a good idea to sweep the 1200 MHz antenna at the same time as well. Santiago Peak: 1. Remove KC6UQH's call and Palomar from the W6ATN repeaters ID's (late spring early summer 08 when the new controller is installed) 2. Look into weak signal getting into one of the inputs. 3. Find intermittent receive problem for link from Oat Mtn..(1/24/09) 4. Resolve problems with WiFi getting into receiver for Snow Peak & Point Loma (April 28, 2009) 5. Install new 5 GHz transmitter once it is repaired (3/10/09) Snow Peak: 1. 2.4 Ghz input is operational but has audio problems due to receiver problems on the network hub.. July 23, 2009 2. The 1200 MHz output does work and you can watch. Point Loma, W6RDF: No Repairs Needed/Fully Operational Trustee Robert Swain, KA4JSR 1. Off the air do to AC problems at the shack. Mount Potosi: ______________________________________________ Letters to the Editor ********************************************************************* If you have an opinion or viewpoint that you would like to express to the readers, please submit your letters to: <http://us.mc831.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=atv-newsletter@hotmail.com> atv-newsletter@hotmail.com _____________________________________________ See you all on ATV, Bryon Foster N6IFU Editor and Publisher of the "ATV Newsletter" Please send this newsletter to anyone you think will enjoy it. If you wish to subscribe to the "ATV Newsletter", send me an email I will add you to my mailing list. The ATV Newsletter is FREE. <http://us.mc831.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=atv-newsletter@hotmail.com> atv-newsletter@hotmail.com If you are receiving the newsletter and would like it stopped, please send me an email as well. My "Mailing List" is not sold or shared. The "ATV Newsletter" is not affiliated with "ATN". 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