2023 - 2028 CQ-TV 281 to CQ-TV 300

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Issue 287 Spring 2025
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The BATC Needs You 5
Muntjac SDR – an Update 8
A learning curve with a 70cms pallet 12
BATC at HAM RADIO 2025 Friedrichshafen 13
The Portsdown Newsletter 14
Q1-2025 Dx news from the GB3JV TV Repeater 14
Bias-Tee: complicated? 16
Aerial experiments for DATV 19
A Portable DATV System 21
8th March 2025 Activity day 23
PE43703 Attenuator Controller 25
Building a(nother) rotator for /P usage 28
High power PSU with current limiting 30
Fun and games with an Arduino 31
Product review: Banggood Buck-Boost 120W Power supply 32
Turning Back the Pages 33
Issue 286 Winter 2024
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Trevor Lumb home built camera 7
The Portsdown Newsletter 8
Another solution for effective talkback 10
BATC at the Midland Microwave Round Table 11
BATC at the RSGB Convention 12
SRT - How to get started 14
Antenna polarization: why horizontal? 16
DATV linear transponder on HB9TV-1 relay 19
Conversion of 70cms 350 watt power amplifier pallet 20
AllStar DATV Talkback 21
BATC Subscriptions 21
Digital signal path upgrade of GB3EY 22
November Activity Weekend and a 71MHz bandpass filter 26
5-petal ‘cloverleaf’ antenna for 435MHz 27
A QRO filter for 70cms 28
JOTA 2024 - from Gilwell Park GB2GP 28
Turning Back the Pages 29
CAT25 - Save the date! 31
Issue 285 Autumn 2024
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Jamboree on the Air - 2024 6
Adding a RTC (real time clock) to a Portsdown 4 7
BATC at the Telford Rally 8
Conversion of old pallet amplifier to 13cm 9
A look back at BATC history and the work of Mike Cox 10
PicoTuneWH - Ethernet software for the BATC PicoTuner 11
Muntjac - a Pluto alternative for QO-100 DATV 12
The Portsdown Newsletter 16
My DATV transmitter 17
Mr Whippy moves on… 19
CAT 24 – a report of Part one 20
Presentation of awards at CAT 24 23
Antenna element holders made by a 3D printer 24
Adalm Pluto PTT Control 26
YASS – Yet another signal source 27
Turning Back the Pages 28
CAT24 Part II 31
Issue 284 Summer 2024
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Agenda for the BATC general meeting 5
The Portsdown Newsletter 6
CQ-TV back issues 7
ATEM Update v9.5 9
The LimeNET Micro 2.0 developer edition 10
A brief adventure with /MM DATV 11
The BATC gets shipshape to help celebrate RNLI 200 12
Portsdown 5: under development 14
What force to tighten a SMA connector? 15
Fitting my PA in a case with a fan 16
QO100 from VO1 Newfoundland 17
A method for remote off-air status monitoring for DATV repeaters 20
Mr Whippy serves up another seven-band Sundae 23
My Portable Set-up – Dave, G8GKQ 25
Modification of Nokia type PA 27
Out and about for a contest… 28
Turning Back the Pages 29
Issue 283 Spring 2024
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HamTV update 6
The BATC general meeting 2024 7
Financial report 8
Introducing the PicoTuner 10
A new PCB for the PicoTuner 11
BATC shop EU warehouse 12
Surface mount Pico adaptor for the MiniTiouner V2 PCB 12
Going digital with two triple Ryde receivers 13
Cheap video cameras with poor colour reproduction 16
The Portsdown Newsletter 17
Impact of Amp Over-drive on DATV? 19
Portable DATV at GX3WIM/P 20
Poor man’s bandviewer 21
The Portsdown noise meter 22
Modifications to the Polycom VTC Table Microphone 24
32dB RF attenuator – an alternative solution 26
A quick transition for 3.4GHz, or ‘microwaves in a mustard (O.K, coffee) tin’ 27
Turning Back the Pages 29
Issue 282 Winter 2023
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Out and about in 2023 with the BATC 6
CAT 24 - Initial plans 8
David Mann - G8ADM, President of the BATC 9
The future of the 23cms band – December 2023 10
The Portsdown Newsletter 11
New SSTV relay in Chatteris, Cambs 12
Serit FTS-4334 NIM / tuner - good news at last 13
Switched attenuator for QO-100 transmission 14
Evaluation of the quality of transmitted and received analogue video signals 15
Mid-Cornwall beacon and repeater group goes green 19
BATC represented at “The Day of The Radio Amateur” in the Netherlands 20
A multiband multimode transceiver 22
Amateur television at the Spennymoor radio rally 25
Raspberry Pi 5 - First impressions 26
Jamboree on the Air 2023 - a tale of two stations 27
Using an external clock with the Pluto Rev C/D 30
A quick transition for 3.4GHz, or ‘microwaves in a mustard (O.K, coffee) tin’ 31
Turning Back the Pages 32
Issue 281 Autumn 2023
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IC-905 - Icom’s microwave and ATV transceiver 8
You can never have enough computer monitors 11
An alternative method of generating FM TV at 5.6GHz 12
A New Hybrid Television Transmission Systems 14
Out and About… 19
Small Dishes 20
How to point an antenna if you are out portable? 21
CAT 23 – a grand day out 22
News from Japan 358 km, 5.7GHz, DATV Success 24
Modbus controlling of PAs with Arduino boards 25
IARU Region 1 ATV contest 2023 results 29
The Charon, a HF up-converter for the Adalm Pluto 31
Turning Back the Pages 32